Tag: The Travelling Midwife

Marianne Littlejohn is The Travelling Midwife, having recently relocated to KwaZuluNatal in South Africa, she is travelling all over South Africa and beyond, sharing her knowledge of midwifery and natural birth and learning about the process of birth in different countries and cultures.

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Second Hand Gran

2nd Hand Gran

Second Hand Gran is a new eco fashion and ethical project I have started on Instagram – @2ndhandgran – a page dedicated to recycling and reducing waste by encouraging creativity and reuse of clothing. Clothing is something that we are all consumers of. Second Hand Gran works two ways. Firstly I am an earth loving …

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The Travelling Midwife: Tale of Two Cities

I imagined how through the centuries, African people had been giving birth in their thatch roofed dwellings, now replaced by glistening tin roofs that do not insulate the home from the heat of the strong African sun. Almost akin to the hospitals and clinics where African women now give birth and that do not insulate them from the emotional and physical trauma of medicalized childbirth.

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