Tag: natural birth

The Gate-Keepers: A Portraiture Project

This is a portraiture project, documenting the “gatekeepers” of a growing movement regarding positive birth experiences in our country.  My aim: to promote those who are enabling women to identify with their power and femininity and therefore normalize birth and the body.

These are their stories / anecdotes / opinions about what they do and how they see it…accompanied by my portraits and some general information on each sitter.

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Lana Petersen has been a doula for 12 years and is currently an apprentice midwife. Lana works mostly in the Southern Suburbs.

“Women don’t know enough about the various options around birth in this country. They don’t do enough research around those choices and they are losing touch with the very thing that makes them uniquely feminine….The learning from and supporting of each other around pregnancy and birth has been taken away from the home and the community and hence the deep seeded fear women have about their bodies and birth.”

• (I invite more participants to join the project, you are welcome to email me for more information).

The Gate-Keepers: A Portraiture Project

This is a portraiture project, documenting the “gatekeepers” of a growing movement regarding positive birth experiences in our country.  My aim: to promote those who are enabling women to identify with their power and femininity and therefore normalize birth and the body.

These are their stories / anecdotes / opinions about what they do and how they see it…accompanied by my portraits and some general information on each sitter.

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Aneesa Rasool is a a doula, an infant massage and a hypno-birthing practitioner. She’s been in the birth, maternity and newborn world as a professional for 4 years and works predominantly from Blouberg and the West Coast areas.

“Most women have no knowledge or lack the knowledge of their maternity rights. Woman have the right to receive maternity care that is appropriate to her cultural and religious background, and to receive information in a language in which she can communicate. To receive all care in privacy.”

“Many women have an unrealistic expectations of their body postpartum and this is where they need better support.”

• (I invite more participants to join the project, you are welcome to email me for more information).

The Gate-Keepers: A Portraiture Project

This is a portraiture project, documenting the “gatekeepers” of a growing movement regarding positive birth experiences in our country.  My aim: to promote those who are enabling women to identify with their power and femininity and therefore normalize birth and the body.

These are their stories / anecdotes / opinions about what they do and how they see it…accompanied by my portraits and some general information on each sitter.

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Caitlyn Collins is a doula and a midwife, and has been practicing for 10 years, she works in and around Cape Town and the peninsula.
I know Caitlyn from School times and always found her so serene, strong and beautiful.

“The first person a healthy women should see when she knows she is pregnant is a midwife. Pregnancy is not an illness.”

“Women should have their rights respected in pregnancy and childbirth – they should be provided with holistic information and be the leaders in their journey to becoming mothers with informed choice that is fully respected by care providers. Birth should not be ruled by fear of medical litigation.”

• (I invite more participants to join the project, you are welcome to email me for more information).