Thula Baby Centre

General information

Thula Baby Centre was started in 2005 by Lindsay Dibowitz.

Heather Wood bought the clinic from Lindsay in June 2015. As Heather has always been the sister in charge at Thula, the same level of love, care and professionalism continues.

Thula Baby Centre is a private well baby clinic, offering antenatal preparation classes, lactation support in hospital, as well as after discharge from hospital, and care of the newborn baby, mum and dad. We weigh and measure our babies, and teach new parents how to care for their new babies, learning skills for settling them when they fuss, and knowledge and skills to parent with confidence. Any feeding difficulties are prioritised. Vaccinations are given, according to the South African EPI (recommended vaccine schedule) using the excellent Government vaccines, as well as private vaccines not available through the state programme. Dads are included and encouraged to come to clinic visits, and other pertinent issues like expressing, back to work, sleeping trouble, routine and starting solids are covered in consultations.

In addition Kim Gorgulho from Sugar and Spice runs an excellent Nanny Training Course at Thula each Tuesday morning. Jojo from Babawam runs her increasingly popular Baby Signing class in the afternoons, and Nicolette Hadden runs her Hypnobirthing Classes on Wednesday evenings. Dietician, Kath Megaw, consults from Thula some afternoons.