Rebecca Graham is a mom of 5 (including twins), Registered Nurse, Midwife and International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant. She is the founder of Baby Realm which started in 2011. Through the years Baby Realm with her consultants have helped thousands of mothers across South Africa in the hospital setting and out, from newborns initiating breastfeeding to toddlers weaning from it. The need for support to mothers is enormous and we hope through educating and empowering you that you can be an essential provider in helping raise confident mothers and healthy babies. We hope you enjoy the course!

Hannah Visagie is the managing director of Baby Realm (Pty) Ltd. She is a Nursing Sister and Registered Midwife (qualified in 2007) as well as an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant. She has supported 1000’s of South African mothers over the last 10 years along their breastfeeding journeys, as well as walked her own talk with having 4 of her own children. “A part of me feels that we as health professionals, custodians of mothers and babies’ health, have failed in adequately taking care of and protecting our mothers’ breastfeeding journeys. We can do better! This breastfeeding course’s purpose is to equip you, as a health professional to be the faithful custodian that our mothers, babies and nation need.”

Dr Lydia Darby has been a medical doctor for over a decade, working in an array of areas within the medical field, including paediatrics, paediatric surgery, ENT, general practice, rehabilitation care, emergency medicine, oncology, anaesthetics and HIV medicine. She has completed diplomas in both advanced management of HIV, anaesthesiology and palliative care and is currently employed as a doctor working in breast oncology. She is a qualified lactation consultant with over 5 years experience in this field, and also assists with sleep coaching of infants and toddlers, trading under the name “All Things Baby”. In addition to this Dr Lydia Darby is passionate about education and training and as such worked in an HIV NGO supporting the clinics in the Eastern Cape in their management of patients with HIV, has created and facilitated antenatal courses and has gone on to create a course in sustainable development of Health and Food for a global online high school. She is also a qualified life coach and independent facilitator of parenting the Love and Logic way curriculum.