Birthing services

During your antenatal consultations, Dr Isaacs will discuss your birthing preferences with you. There are many factors to consider when deciding on a delivery method. Dr Isaacs will explain your options to you and advise on the safest way to bring your baby into the world.

Her delivery care is centred around choice and partnership with her clients. She feels that women and their partners should have a choice in childbirth and that these choices should be respected.

Where unforeseen circumstances prevail, she endeavours to guide her clients through the various interventions that may be necessary, such as induction of labour, augmentation, epidural and Caesarean section. These may not be desired methods, but sometimes they are necessary to improve the chances to ensure safe delivery for mother and baby.

You and your partners may have strong feelings about any one of these. Dr Isaacs understands this and will try her utmost to ensure that these wishes are respected while still providing the best medical options for the health of you and your baby.

It's estimated that around one in 500 deliveries will also have a severe, unexpected complication such as placental abruption, cord prolapse or excessive bleeding after birth. Dr Isaacs will discuss these outcomes in advance to improve confidence going into labour, and to reduce stress should an emergency arise.

Immediately after birth, you and your partner couples may also have certain preferences. Together, you can decide on things such as the use of drugs to deliver the placenta, early skin to skin contact, whether you will breastfeed or not, etc.