Pregnancy and childbirth differs in different countries and cultures, these posts are about birth in South Africa.
Women need minimal interference, love, patience and a watchful presence when they are giving natural birth. This is the Art of Good Midwifery. Busfare Babies provides the women from Bodium village with just such care.
What I would really like to hear are stories and birth experiences from women on the ground throughout South Africa, so I stopped to interview women from the area. Elsie Joemat, from a settlement near Hoekwil shared her story.
I set off on my road trip to Kwazulunatal after the spectacular birth of Savannah to Tatum and Damien at 22h30 on Sunday evening. Tatum’s mother had given birth to all her children by caesarian section and her sister had also given birth by caesarian section. Tatum was desperate to trade this legacy for one …
It is interesting for me how the rainbow nation of South Africa is fusing and changing cultures. Now a Xhosa woman may give birth in water, cut her own baby’s cord and give birth in a hospital or birth centre. Birth in the Xhosa culture, is an important rite of passage and is therefore treated with due respect, honour and celebration.
Please use cloth nappies, bio-baba nappies, eco-friendly nappies or diapers as the american term is used. It’s worth saving your pocket, the environment, your child’s health, your conscience and the country ‘s friendly odour!!
I am presenting another Spiritualbirth Preparation Workshop on the 7th and 8th of May 2011 in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal for a few couples. If you are interested in participating please get in touch…
Labour and giving birth elicits our deepest feelings of anxiety and fear when we are not aware and conscious of our motivations. I have learnt that my fears are not always founded on a woman’s particular reality – they are my own personal fears. I have learnt to be calm in the face of ‘roaring tigresses’ and strong when