Birth & Midwifery in South Africa
RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND PRACTITIONERS

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Midwifery Today Country Contact

Robyn Sheldon studied direct entry midwifery in Oregon, USA. She is a CPM with NARM, and practices midwifery in Cape Town. She is a qualified Regression Therapist and holds a Bachelors degree in Art and uses both art and regression therapy in her work with pregnant women. Robyn believes that nourishing women emotionally and spiritually affects their birth process and facilitates an easier transition into the world for their babies.

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Birth/Midwifery

• Pregnancy Journal Directory
• Mowbray Maternity Active Birth Unit
• The Birth Centre—Home birth midwife Tracy Roake, Durban
• Home Birth Midwives—Pretoria
• Democratic Nursing Organization of South Africa (DENOSA)

Parenting/Breastfeeding

• Mothers and Children

Education

• The South African Centre for Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery—a collaborating centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban