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Read articles from our home birth matters magazine. Written by home birth women and midwives of New Zealand.
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2021 National Home Birth Hui – Cancelled
2021 National Home Birth Hui Nau mai, haere mai, Home Birth Aotearoa warmly welcomes you to join us for our annual hui, The national hui is our opportunity to connect with one another as a home birthing...
2020 Home Birth Conference and Hui
Sarah Lockwood and Sophia Paskell, Home Birth Aotearoa trustees and Trust Homebirth Tauranga members, warmly hosted the 2020 Home Birth Aotearoa National Hui and Conference ‘Te Whare Tangata’…
2019 Home Birth Conference and Hui
Home Birth Canterbury Association are proud to be hosting this years Home Birth Aotearoa Conference in November – “There is no place like home”. Come and join us to celebrate Home Birth in Aotearoa with expert speakers…
2019 Trustee Nominations – Call for Interest
Nominations are open for trustees for the HBA Trust. We welcome nominations from all members of our home birth community and are looking for members who can bring a diversity and professionalism…
Home Birth Aotearoa National Hui 2018
He ora te whakapiri, Whiria to tangata – There is strength in unity, weave the people together. Kia ora koutou katoa, the Wellington HBA invites you to join us at the 2018 Home Birth Aotearoa National Hui “Unity is Strength”
HBA Photography Prize Winners
So many beautiful photos were submitted, it was a true challenge to choose the winning pictures. What a rich and wonderful selection. These photos will become an essential resource for the mahi we do…
HBA Photography Competition 2017-2018
One of our struggles, as a voluntary organisation working in a charitable space, is securing high quality, home birth specific photos with an Aotearoa flavour. To address this we are holding a Photography Competition…
Kei a Wai Ceremony Herstory
Nurturing the Numinous, was a reflection of Whangarei Home Birth Group’s commitment to the spiritual aspect of birth – that homebirth allows the profoundly spiritual nature of birth to blossom and bloom…
2017 Home Birth Conference and Hui
Auckland Home Birth Community proudly presents the 2017 Home Birth Conference and Hui. Be inspired at this year’s Conference and Hui with like-minded, kindred spirits and dynamic guest speakers….
2016 Home Birth Aotearoa Hui & AGM
Nau mai, Haere mai, Waikato Home Birth Association together with Home Birth Aotearoa warmly invite you to come along to our National Spring Hui & AGM, to be held at the Christian Bible Camp, Manu Bay, Raglan…
HBA at 2015 MOH Maternity Conference
Home Birth Aotearoa were invited to present at the 2015 Maternity Conference hosted by the Ministry of Health. This was a great opportunity to connect with a vast range of maternity caregivers and policy makers…
2015 Home Birth Conference and Hui
2015 Home Birth Conference and Hui "Connections & Community" Brought to you by CHOICEbaby Nelson and Homebirth Motueka. This year we present a very special conference half an hour from Nelson at the...
Why Home Birth?
In New Zealand, around 3.5% of births are home births (according to a 2019 study), and this percentage has remained fairly stable, although increasing slightly in recent years. In certain regions, such as the West Coast of the South Island, the rate of home births is at a much higher 12.5%. This is most likely because of supportive midwifery homes and natural birthing centres in the region.