Cheryl Rowe

September 09, 2026

Independent midwife

Practice

Cheryl’s Gentle Births
36 Westbrook Ave
Berea West Westville, Durban

Services offered

Ante Natal care and advise
Home Births
Water Births
Birthing Suite Births
Community Clinic Natural Births
Hospital Natual Births
Post Natal care and advise, including breast feeding

Qualifications

Registered Nurse
Registered Midwife

Approach and midwifery style

I believe every woman deserves to be able to cherish her birth experience.

I want mothers to feel that they have the opportunity to work with their bodies, knowing that they and their babies are safe and that their best interests are in the hands of someone they know and trust, so that they enter labour with excitement and anticipation and not fear and trepidation.

I truly believe that it is just as possible for a woman who has an emergency caesarian to feel like she has had a wonderful birth, as it is for a woman who has her baby at home with her older kids playing her. The key is not what happened, but that you were able to participate in the decisions taken and make and informed choice.

I feel that the father has a vital role to play in the birth process: Did you know that oxytocin, the hormone that helps your uterus to contract, is released every time Dad physically touches the labouring mother?

I am in complete favour of the appropriate use of technology, without it, many pregnancies would result in catastrophic outcome for mom and baby, however I do feel that a low-risk pregnancy and labour need not end in a “hi-tech delivery”