A Gentle Birthing Choice

Midwifery care tailored to suit your specific needs throughout your pregnancy, labour, birth & beyond

Birth planning and investigating birthing options
	Choices in labour and birth Homebirth reference site Pregnancy tests and ultrasounds – Health24 Positions for an active labour Spinning Babies – optimal foetal positioning Due date calculator – Babycentre Pregnancy calendar—week-by week changes – ivillage Video on use of Epi-No
“I’ll never forget the first time I saw you. You were wet, sticky, perfect, wrinkly and screaming your head off. The most perfect, beautiful sight I had ever seen”.
Stuart MacFarlane
Breastfeeding tips & advice
	La Leche League Answer pages, Mother-to-mother forums, online help and podcasts Breastfeeding Online – articles and tips Breastfeeding video clip of the correct latching technique Australian Breastfeeding Association – information
“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.”
Winston Churchill
Parenting help
	Birthworks – South African online midwife, forums, pregnancy & baby information, shopping, events calendar, midwife and doula directory Kelly Mom – Advice and articles on breastfeeding, sleep and parenting South African baby and kid’s directory – services, events, parenting articles Sister Lilian careline New dads resource centre
“If a baby is going to disgrace you it will only be on an occasion of extreme importance.”
Peter Gray
Other South African sites of interest
	Guide for dads—to men from women South African directory of services and websites Baby Talk – directory of South African childbirth educators Post Natal Depression Support Association New dads resource centre
“At three in the morning a baby hits it’s high in smiles and conversation.”
Maya V. Patel
My reading recommendations
	Active Birth—Janet Balaskas Home birth—Sheila Kitzinger Gentle birth Choices—Barbara Harper Thinking woman’s guide to a better birth—Henci Goer The birth partner—Penny Simkin Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth—Ina May Gaskin Get through childbirth in one piece! – Elizabeth Bruce Waterbirth—an attitude to care—Dianne Garland Baby Sense—Megan Faure & Ann Richardson The new practical pregnancy & birth book—Irene Bourquin Baby and childcare handbook—Marina Petropulos
The information on this Website is designed for educational purposes only. It is not to be used as a substitute for informed medical advice or care. You should not use this information to diagnose or treat any health problem or illness without consulting your midwife, physician or paediatrician.