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Constipation solution!
Add a few drops of good quality olive oil to two bottles a day. If the constipation is still not improved add to another bottle. Once you find how much your baby needs, stabilise at that amount. Every month or so, try and do without, as baby will some day outgrow the need for this.
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Add a few drops of good quality olive oil to two bottles a day. If the constipation is still not improved add to another bottle. Once you find how much your baby needs, stabilise at that amount. Every month or so, try and do without, as baby will some day outgrow the need for this.
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Symposium History
Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM is one of the biggest and most prestigious midwifery and perinatal conferences in the southern hemisphere presented over five days in three major South African cities, Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town. Delegates attend from all nine provinces of South Africa, neighbouring African and other countries abroad. Internationally and locally acclaimed speakers address Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM delegates each year on the most topical issues in the fields of pregnancy, birth, postnatal care, neonatal intensive care, baby and child development and care.
The idea of the Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM was conceived at the Sister Lilian CentreTM, a health education and pregnancy, birth and parenting advice centre started by well-known South African midwife and health educator, Sister Lilian. The first Symposium was held in 1996 in Pretoria and was attended by about 100 midwives and professional nurses from State and Private hospitals, as well as in private practice. The Symposium is now an annual event held over two days in both Gauteng and Cape Town, and one day in Durban, and was attended by some 850 delegates in 2009.
The mission of the Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM is to support all in this special profession to be able to render the most sensitive service possible to our clients and patients. There is a clear fourfold goal each year:
Peri-urban and rural sector midwives are empowered by the Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM in a way not often available to them, in so doing assisting the hospitals they come from and ultimately the whole community. Dialogue between private and public sectors is encouraged, made possible and facilitated. Independent midwifery and babycare practitioners as well as allied health professionals also attend the Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM, ensuring that this initiative enables the various players in the field of maternal and baby health to learn from each other.
The Symposium is made possible only through the continued support of sponsors and exhibitors who are willing and able to make a difference and who share our vision of transformation through education and sensitive practices. The organisers of the Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM are indebted to these partners, as they ensure that the Symposium is a memorable event that will continue to inspire delegates when they are back at work in their communities. Phillips Avent is the main sponsor of Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM, making many exciting initiatives of the event possible. Pampers, NutriLida and Abbott Laboratories will also make significant contributions in 2010. A few other select companies also co-sponsor the Symposium each year, while an active exhibition is a regular facet of the annual event too, with leading pharmaceutical, pregnancy and babycare and complementary health companies ensuring that they are present to make their products and services known to delegates.
In 2008 the Sister Lilian CentreTM took a major leap and started the Sensitive Midwifery MagazineTM, not to replace the Symposium but to ensure that this valuable service is available to even more professionals throughout the year. We look forward to sustained growth in the future.
The Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM has been organised by the Sister Lilian CentreTM since 1996 and is 15 years in this auspicious 2010 World Cup Year. A truly special programme has been planned and the respected, much-loved event reached new heights in 2010, maintaining its well-deserved reputation as the best organised, most stimulating health conference in South Africa.
Sensitive Midwifery Magazine
Photo Gallery
Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM is one of the biggest and most prestigious midwifery and perinatal conferences in the southern hemisphere presented over five days in three major South African cities, Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town. Delegates attend from all nine provinces of South Africa, neighbouring African and other countries abroad. Internationally and locally acclaimed speakers address Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM delegates each year on the most topical issues in the fields of pregnancy, birth, postnatal care, neonatal intensive care, baby and child development and care.
The idea of the Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM was conceived at the Sister Lilian CentreTM, a health education and pregnancy, birth and parenting advice centre started by well-known South African midwife and health educator, Sister Lilian. The first Symposium was held in 1996 in Pretoria and was attended by about 100 midwives and professional nurses from State and Private hospitals, as well as in private practice. The Symposium is now an annual event held over two days in both Gauteng and Cape Town, and one day in Durban, and was attended by some 850 delegates in 2009.
The mission of the Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM is to support all in this special profession to be able to render the most sensitive service possible to our clients and patients. There is a clear fourfold goal each year:
- To update expertise of, present relevant research and provide new skills to the perinatal nurse/midwife fraternity
- To challenge non- defendable policies that negatively affect mothers, babies and young families
- To encourage complementary and sensitive health and maternity practices relevant to the perinatal field
- To celebrate the professions of midwifery and related fields by making the Symposium an inspiring, delightful and memorable event.
Peri-urban and rural sector midwives are empowered by the Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM in a way not often available to them, in so doing assisting the hospitals they come from and ultimately the whole community. Dialogue between private and public sectors is encouraged, made possible and facilitated. Independent midwifery and babycare practitioners as well as allied health professionals also attend the Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM, ensuring that this initiative enables the various players in the field of maternal and baby health to learn from each other.
The Symposium is made possible only through the continued support of sponsors and exhibitors who are willing and able to make a difference and who share our vision of transformation through education and sensitive practices. The organisers of the Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM are indebted to these partners, as they ensure that the Symposium is a memorable event that will continue to inspire delegates when they are back at work in their communities. Phillips Avent is the main sponsor of Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM, making many exciting initiatives of the event possible. Pampers, NutriLida and Abbott Laboratories will also make significant contributions in 2010. A few other select companies also co-sponsor the Symposium each year, while an active exhibition is a regular facet of the annual event too, with leading pharmaceutical, pregnancy and babycare and complementary health companies ensuring that they are present to make their products and services known to delegates.
In 2008 the Sister Lilian CentreTM took a major leap and started the Sensitive Midwifery MagazineTM, not to replace the Symposium but to ensure that this valuable service is available to even more professionals throughout the year. We look forward to sustained growth in the future.
The Sensitive Midwifery SymposiumTM has been organised by the Sister Lilian CentreTM since 1996 and is 15 years in this auspicious 2010 World Cup Year. A truly special programme has been planned and the respected, much-loved event reached new heights in 2010, maintaining its well-deserved reputation as the best organised, most stimulating health conference in South Africa.
Sensitive Midwifery Magazine
Photo Gallery