Doula Links
South Africa: Gauteng
Birth Support : Sally Baker – Doula, Birthing from Within child birth classes.
Birthing in Awareness : Rosalia – Doula, VBACtivist, Birthing from Within Mentor, Breastfeeding Facilitator. Doula and Mentor training.
South Africa : Western Cape
Birth Buddies : Jane Weideman is a Cape Town based birth companion (doula).
Paula Peterson : Paula Peterson – Doula
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General Doula Links
Doula Organisation of South Africa
Doulas of South Africa This site is dedicated to professionals as well as informing the public to the role and scope of doulas.
WOMBS : Women offering Mothers Birth Support, is a doula association. List of Doulas mainly in the Western Cape area.
Pregnancy & Childbirth Links
Birthing Naturally
Birthing Naturally strives to maintain a helpful and encouraging environment where families can explore their options, test their new skills, find support and prepare for the upcoming changes of a new baby.
Classically trained and with a degree in Fine Art, Ingeborg is a professional artist and phoptographer. Ingeborg’s keen interest in pregnancy, birth and babies led her to train as a Doula and therefore has a deep connection and understanding of her subject matter she portrays in her photographs.
Pushed Birth
The sister site for Pushed, the book, and was created to provide women with uncensored, unsweetened information about U.S. childbirth care.
With Woman
Run by two midwives, offering articles, art, poetry, birth stories and education.
Well Mother
Explains how massage, shiatsu and exercise can help during pregnancy and parenthood.
Natural Parenting
Information on natural birth, including breastfeeding and family life.
Ecstatic Birth
Virtual Pregnancy and Childbirth education center
Birthing from Within
In addition to our landmark book of the same name, we offer a multitude of resources, products, childbirth classes and events for expectant parents, families, birth companions of all sorts, and anyone who cares about birth.
International Caesarean Awareness Network
This website gives information on preventing an unnecessary caesarean by encouraging you to ask pertinent questions of your caregiver and hospital. Caesarean Fact Sheet. Support for recovering from a cesarean birth. Information on VBAC’s
VBAC Forum – South Africa
A forum where a group of mothers offer support for other mothers who are considering having a vaginal birth after one or more caesarean births.
Birth International
Providing support and resources for midwives, childbirth educators and expectant parents.
Childbirth Advocates Links
Sheila Kitzinger
Official website of this outstanding author and supporter of natural childbirth. Sheila Kitzinger is a social anthropologist who has been working with childbearing women from all around the world. She has an astounding knowledge of pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding and is one of my favorite role models.
Robbie Davis-Floyd
As a cultural anthropologist, I have spent over 20 years researching issues in the anthropology of reproduction, focusing most closely on childbirth, obstetrics, and midwifery, which I continue to study and write about.
Suzanne Arms
Suzanne Arms is a familiar name to many from her 7 groundbreaking books (on pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and adoption), films, photographs, and the hundreds of talks she has given at conferences worldwide since 1975. She has been an inspiration behind the Birth Movement.
Sarah Buckley
Sarah’s writing critiques current practices in pregnancy, birth, and parenting from a scientific as well as a personal viewpoint. She encourages us to be fully informed in our decision-making; to listen to our hearts and our intuition; and to claim our rightful role as the real experts in our bodies and our children.
South African Support Groups
The South African Multiple Birth Association
Provide moral and practical support to parents or guardians of multiple births.
Post Natal Depression Support
Providing information and support for women from all walks of life, who are experiencing Postnatal Depression, and their families, in order to ensure early identification, timeous referral and effective treatment.
Premature Babies Support
a National support group for the parents of premature babies born in South Africa. They provide support, information, advice and products pertaining to premature birth and babies.
Compassionate Friends
A support group for bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents.
UIF Claims Service
to make your UIF claiming process as convenient as possible. Therefore we handle the whole claiming process on your behalf, so that means that you don’t have to go to the UIF offices yourself, ever!
Breastfeeding Links
Gauteng Breastfeeding Forum
The Gauteng Breastfeeding Forum is an organisation representing groups and individuals who are committed and motivated to promote, protect and support breastfeeding in the Gauteng Province.
La Leche League – South Africa
Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) that offers information and encouragement – primarily through personal help – to women who want to breastfeed their babies.
South African Breast Milk Reserve
Human Milk Banking is a service-oriented environment and an organisation like SABR is only as good as its willingness to make positive banking a reality for partner hospitals. The Feed For Life Initiative was established as a Humanitarian Franchising Model targeting human milk banking holistically. A human Milk Bank is an integral part of the infant high care environment when it promotes an exclusive breastfeeding culture on a purely practical level; we talk breastfeeding and we walk breastfeeding.
Promotion of Mother’s Milk, Inc.
(ProMoM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing public awareness and public acceptance of breastfeeding
Professional Bodies and Resources – South Africa
South African Nursing Council
This site concentrates on the setting and maintaining of nursing education and practice standards.
National Department of Health
Reference Price Lists for professionals
The National Health Research Database
Developed by the Health Systems Trust for the National Department of Health. a Web-based search engine and database that currently contains over thirty thousand references, generally available as summaries/abstracts, but in addition, for many of the resources, there are links to full text PDF files of health research conducted in South and southern Africa.
Effective Care Research Unit (ECRU)
ECRU is the research unit of the University of Witwatersrand and University of Fort Hare and Eastern Cape Department of Health, based in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department of ELHC. The objective of ECRU is to promote evidence-based affordable care appropriate to the needs of low-income communities.
Midwives Society of South Africa
Official information portal.
Council for Medical Schemes
Statutory body, established by the Parliament of South Africa to provide supervision over Medical Schemes. Customer education and assistance provided.
Board of Healthcare Funders
BHF is the representative organisation for the majority of medical schemes throughout South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana as well as Lesotho. They also manage and issue he Practice Code Numbering System (PCNS) . The PCNS of BHF is a list of unique practice billing codes for providers of healthcare services in South Africa, Namibia and Lesotho.
Hospital Association of South Africa
Official information portal.
Health Professions Council of South Africa
Official information portal.
Professional Bodies and Resources – International
The International Confederation of Midwives (ICM)
Supports, represents and works to strengthen professional associations of midwives on a global basis.
ACE Graphics and Associates in Childbirth Education
Chidlbirth Educators supplies and support of expecting parents.
Midwifery Today
Online magazine with many articles relevant to home birth. Midwifery support and meetings as well as conferences.
World Health Organisation guidelines on pregnancy and childbirth
Drugwatch.com is a comprehensive Web site featuring extensive information about medications, drug interactions, and drug side effects during pregnancy. The most recent pregnancy drug alert is from Accutane. Accutane causes birth defects, premature births, and death in babies whose mothers took the drug while they were pregnant. See Accutane Lawsuit for additional information
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