News

24 Mar 2020

What Covid-19 means for women giving birth in Aotearoa

Even with a pandemic situation and people in Aotearoa moving into a minimum four week isolation period – babies will be born.

National Spring Hui 10-12th October 2014

18 Sep 2014

The Home Birth Community of Aotearoa is warmly invited to come along to our National Spring Hui, to be held at the Umupuia Marae, Auckland.

We invite representatives and members of Regional Home Birth Groups, Home Birth Midwives and anyone identifying positively with home birth in Aotearoa to gather with us for some in-depth korero. Come for a day or stay overnight. This is a family friendly event and we have a commitment to meet the needs of our children and whanau.

Welcome to our website

Tess Trotter - 08 May 2014

Haere Mai! Haere Mai! Welcome to our new website!

Microbirth

22 Jul 2014

“Microbirth” is a new feature-length documentary looking at birth in a whole new way; through the lens of a microscope. Investigating the latest scientific research, the film reveals how we give birth impacts the lifelong health of our children and potentially could even affect the future of humanity.
http://microbirth.com

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Allowing women to extend labor reduces rate of cesarean delivery: When women in labor are given more time to deliver their baby than current guidelines recommend, their incidence of cesarean delivery drops by 55 percent, say researchers at Thomas Jefferson University.

19 Mar 2016

New research on the science behind Microbirth: This is exciting. New research on the science behind Microbirth published by Professor Hannah Dahlen, Jacquelyn Taylor (who were both featured in Microbirth) and also Soo Downe (the original inspiration for Microbirth) and Holly Powell-Kennedy (who we also interviewed!)

28 Jan 2016

Intact Cord Resuscitation Research: some midwives in British Columbia already practice intact cord resuscitation (ICR) at planned home births and in the hospital in order to facilitate delayed cord clamping for infants who need resuscitation.

28 Jan 2016

Home Birth Supports Baby’s Immune System: Birth is an intrinsically natural and primal experience of the creative expression of life. It is the basis upon which life emerges from the womb to the world.

25 Nov 2014

Bed sharing, Breastfedding and SIDS risk: A review of liturature and data on this often emotve topic, questioning what our concerns should perhaps really be

23 Jul 2014

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