Crossing Borders: Male Midwifery in Ghana
You might have never seen a male midwife before in your life, but they do exist. Midwife Without Borders takes you across gender and...
Overcoming crises in Sierra Leone: a story of resilience
The St. John of God Hospital in Lunsar, Sierra Leone, survived a ravaging civil war (1991-2002) and an ebola epidemic. This March, it...
Food For Thought: Halal Formula, Kosher Medication, Vegan Supplements?
Halal formula? Chances are that you, as a parent or a health professional, have never heard of it, or have even given its existence a...
Breastfeeding: iContact over Eye-Contact?
Breastfeeding is making it to the headlines more and more, and unfortunately not always in a positive way. While hardly anyone bats an...
Magic Box or Tragic Box?
Recently, a Scottish initiative made headlines: ‘Baby boxes to be sent out across Scotland from August’. When reading this, I couldn’t...
Sounding Good?
Mobile ultrasound devices have been on the rise over the last years. This can hardly come as a surprise. Whether a (para)medic at the...
High Tea: High Risk?
Last week, I caught myself eavesdropping on a conversation between two elderly ladies in the train. One of their relatives was having...
iCycle: Tracking the Female Cycle
Men often say that women can be very unpredictable, but are they really or is it more a matter of learning how to read a woman’s seasonal...
iFind
“Seeing is believing” is true for parents who first see their baby on an ultrasound scan. It often makes their pregnancy more real,...
Birth in Tanzania's Hidden Valley
Does bad luck come in threes? Well, in some places in this world death comes in “three delays”. Imagine you are expecting your...
