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Midwife-led guidance for informed birth choices.
Birth & Baby is a practical maternal-health show built around pregnancy, birth, newborn care, and family wellness. Its conversations favor informed choice, midwife-led support, and natural care while still acknowledging when medical help is needed.
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Birth & Baby is an advice show for pregnancy, birth, postpartum life, and early baby care, shaped by the values of sensitive midwifery. It treats birth as meaningful, physical, emotional, and deeply personal. The show’s recurring argument is clear: pregnancy is not automatically a sickness, and parents deserve enough information to ask better questions. That point comes through in conversations about natural birth, cesarean timing, fetal growth concerns, preterm babies, water birth, and community-based midwifery. The pace is patient. The guidance is often specific. Episodes explain why delayed cord clamping matters, how skin-to-skin care supports newborns, what families should discuss with care providers before birth, and how fathers or partners may support a water birth without pressure. Other episodes widen the lens into gut health, probiotics, hormones, toxins, dairy, meat choices, glass containers, prenatal movement, postnatal exercise, and Pilates. The show is not framed as a pure alternative-health space, because it repeatedly acknowledges medical assistance when evidence or risk calls for it. Its center of gravity, however, remains physiological care, informed consent, and trust in the body unless there is a clear reason to intervene. Midwives are treated as practical advocates, educators, and custodians of natural birth. Parents are treated as decision-makers. Birth workers are treated as people who need training, support, and a stronger professional community. The show also has a service-oriented texture, with references to Sensitive Midwifery, Sister Lillian Center, training, online resources, and midwife support. It suits listeners who want maternal-health conversations that are gentle but not vague, values-driven but still grounded in practical care decisions. The best moments happen when a guest slows down a familiar pregnancy topic and turns it into a set of usable questions. That makes the show especially useful for parents who want to feel less passive in clinical settings and for midwives who want language for protecting choice, dignity, and physiological birth.
Made for: The show is for expectant parents, new mothers, midwives, and birth workers who want practical guidance on pregnancy, birth, postpartum recovery, and baby care. It especially suits listeners drawn to physiological birth, informed consent, and gentle but detailed maternal-health education.
What sets it apart: Birth & Baby stands apart by combining natural-birth advocacy with concrete questions parents can take into appointments. Its conversations keep midwives, mothers, and birth workers at the center rather than treating birth as a one-size medical pathway.
Shaping the future of humankind with nature, knowledge and experience, in pregnancy, birth and family health.
A C-section suggestion gets a follow-up: "what's wrong with waiting?" You may want a pen.
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A measured case for informed birth choices, centered on the questions parents can ask when intervention becomes part of the discussion.
Birth is treated as something parents can enter with questions, context, and a real say in the path ahead. Dr. Magritte Barnard's conversation with Lilo, a midwife who sees the work as her ministry, keeps circling back to trust in the body while still allowing that blood…
A clear gut-health primer that connects dysbiosis, gut function, and the gut-brain axis before turning to probiotics.
Dr. Margreet Barnard of the Birth and Baby Show keeps the focus on gut health by breaking it into three linked ideas: dysbiosis, compromised gut function, and the gut-brain axis.
A warm 100th-episode reflection on Sensitive Midwifery's mission, training, and midwife-led future.
Dr. Margreet Barnard marks the Birth and Baby Show's 100th episode by returning to the mission she inherited from Sister Lillian: keeping Sensitive Midwifery grounded in natural, physiological, and intuitive care.
A personal toxin-awareness conversation turns milk, meat, products, and plastic into practical everyday questions.
This end-of-year conversation frames everyday toxin exposure through Lungile's own shift in awareness, moving from food choices to the materials used in daily care.
A clear, grounded case for giving babies time, warmth, and closeness at birth.
Babies can get a steadier start when the first minutes after birth are treated as part of care, not just a handoff. Dr. Margreet Barnard and Professor Wilma make that case through delayed cord clamping and immediate skin-to-skin contact: waiting until the cord turns white,…
Daily TED and TEDx talks hosted by Elise Hu, spanning science, psychology, and creativity.
Pop culture, personal stakes, and room for a tangent.
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Ian Wheeler, a registered pharmacist and Pegasus founder, describes homeopathy as a “catalyst” for the body’s healing response.
Jude Pulak says her own hospital birth experience after a water birth led her and her husband to create Genesis in Johannesburg.
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A midwife host interviews a Pilates instructor about safe and effective exercise for pregnancy and postpartum, focusing on Pilates for birth preparation.
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