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Hospitals and doctors’ rooms may not feel like the safest place to be right now, but if you’re pregnant, you still need to be having all your antenatal checks, writes Dr Enrico Maraschin. A professor of Obstetrics from Cape Town University recently hosted a webinar on...
Delivery during Covid-19 – packing your bag
Packing for the hospital is usually an exciting experience for moms-to-be. Here’s how to prepare now that Covid-19 is a factor, writes midwife and nurse Sister Des Meyer. The sense of anticipation of the delivery, and your baby wearing their clothes is all part of the...
HELLP syndrome and why I am NICU mom
The prospect of having to spend any time in the NICU is a scary one. Carey Haupt writes about her experience. As a first-time mom, I had never heard about Hellp Syndrome, and I had no idea that it would make such a profound impact on my life. So, if you are like I...
Homebirth: what you need to know
Giving birth at home was the norm until about halfway through the 20th century, when hospital births became more common. Doula Donna Bland looks at what this choice entails. Women have many birth choices available to them today, including homebirth. Although there are...
Adjusting to the uncertainties of lockdown
Since March 2020, families have been thrown into strange and unpredictable new patterns of interacting and working. Clinical psychologist Michelle Nortje has some suggestions about how to manage this change. This has been a difficult and stressful time for parents and...
5 reasons your baby is resisting their nap
It’s incomprehensible to any parent that a child should resist sleep, and yet they do. Sleep Expert Nicci Proome looks at why your baby might be refusing to nap. We have all there as a mum, dad or caregiver: walking up and down the halls, bouncing on the exercise...
Helping children cope with anxiety during the Covid-19 crisis
While you’re struggling to work from home and keep your finances afloat, don’t forget that your children are anxious too. Clinical psychologist Michelle Nortje has some tips to help them cope. The current global pandemic has had a huge impact on how our families and...
6 things my children taught me during the corona crisis
All of us found ourselves in a very unexpected situation in March this year – confined to our homes, with our children, as the novel coronavirus swept the globe. Clinical psychologist and play therapist Dr Jo-Marie Bothma explains what her children taught her during...
Parenting in the social media age
Parenting has changed thanks to the always-on, instant gratification lifestyle we lead in an age of tech and social media, write educator Kerry McArthur. The world that we are parenting in is very different to when we grew up. Our parents had to take photos and wait...
Kids at home but you’re trying to get work done?
Many are finding that working from home isn’t as much fun as they thought it would be – especially those who have kids. Dr Laura Markham has some ideas to make it a little less crazy. Kids shrieking, whining,I Interrupting your Zoom meeting to ask if you’ll wipe their...
