SISTER LILIAN

We strive at all times to make a positive, responsible, innovative difference to the health, success and happiness of the family, to create a forum for learning about conventional and complementary health and well-being in pregnancy, birth and parenting, for both public and professionals and to improve the quality of pregnancy, parenting and health care in South Africa, always taking into account our slogan: With Nature, Knowledge and Experience Sister Lilian did her original nursing degree through the University of Stellenbosch from 1975 to 1979 and trained as a midwife in Johannesburg in 1980. She is also a qualified reflexologist and has done a course in Ayurvedic Medicine. Sister Lilian's speciality since 1988 has been in the fields of pregnancy, birth, childcare and parenting  

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although she has always retained an active interest in health generally. It was the realisation that to address the health challenges of older people, one needed to ideally start at the beginning and rather keep babies and children as well as possible, in as natural a way as possible, that led to her activities being centred on pregnancy, birth and children. When her own children were on the way, this added to her determination to find the gentlest yet most effective health and parenting options. Furthermore, Sister Lilian implicitly believes that involved parenting, core family values and quality emotional care of babies and children helps give birth to respectful, compassionate, considerate and successful communities and countries. Sister Lilian went into private nursing practice some years after qualifying, teaching antenatal classes and advising mothers after birth on all aspects about their babies and their own adjustment. She soon started practicing her midwifery skills in the field of natural birth. As the need arose amongst her clients, she developed a variety of courses like Home Emergency Care for Families, Nanny & Caregiver Training and Natural Health for the Whole Family.