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    • Home
    • About Us
    • Contact for a Midwife
    • What to Expect......
    • Gore Maternity Unit Staff
    • Text Messaging
    • Call the Midwife!
    • Pregnancy Information
    • Blood Tests In Pregnancy
    • Pregnancy Complications
    • Need Help To Decide?
    • Videos and Links
    • Prepare for the Marathon
    • Labour
    • After the Birth
    • Home Birth Pool Hire
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact for a Midwife
  • What to Expect......
  • Gore Maternity Unit Staff
  • Text Messaging
  • Call the Midwife!
  • Pregnancy Information
  • Blood Tests In Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications
  • Need Help To Decide?
  • Videos and Links
  • Prepare for the Marathon
  • Labour
  • After the Birth
  • Home Birth Pool Hire

Useful Websites

Recommended Vitamins and Minerals in Pregnancy

Recommended Vitamins and Minerals in Pregnancy

Recommended Vitamins and Minerals in Pregnancy

Folic Acid and Iodine

Recommended Pregnancy Vaccinations

Recommended Vitamins and Minerals in Pregnancy

Recommended Vitamins and Minerals in Pregnancy

Covid 19

Whooping Cough

Influenza

Food Safety in Pregnancy

Recommended Vitamins and Minerals in Pregnancy

Health and Disability Rights

  •  List of safe food in pregnancy | NZ Government (mpi.govt.nz) 
  •  Eating safely and well during pregnancy | Ministry of Health NZ 
  •  Pregnancy – food safety | Health Navigator NZ 

Health and Disability Rights

New Zealand College of Midwives and Ministry of Health Pregnancy Information

Health and Disability Rights

The Health Code and your rights 

Exercise in Pregnancy

New Zealand College of Midwives and Ministry of Health Pregnancy Information

New Zealand College of Midwives and Ministry of Health Pregnancy Information

  •  Being active during pregnancy | Ministry of Health NZ 
  •  Pregnancy and exercise: Baby, let's move! - Mayo Clinic 
  •  Safe Pregnancy Workouts: Best Exercises by Trimester (healthline.com) 

New Zealand College of Midwives and Ministry of Health Pregnancy Information

New Zealand College of Midwives and Ministry of Health Pregnancy Information

New Zealand College of Midwives and Ministry of Health Pregnancy Information

 Pregnancy - New Zealand College of Midwives - New Zealand College of Midwives (midwife.org.nz) 

Common complaints in pregnancy | Ministry of Health NZ

Pelvic Mobility and Stability and Positional Techniques

Pelvic Mobility and Stability and Positional Techniques

Pelvic Mobility and Stability and Positional Techniques

Pelvis and Hips

Spinning Babies Positional Techniques

Birth Option Information

Pelvic Mobility and Stability and Positional Techniques

Pelvic Mobility and Stability and Positional Techniques

For your birth options you may want to consider where you will give birth, what pain relief you use, if you will use the water, how your baby will be listened to, how you will birth your placenta, if you will keep your placenta, if your baby will have Vitamin K, who will be with you and much more.  Sara Wickham - GBS, Waterbirth, Birthing the placenta and much more

Pain Relief

Vitamin K

Childbirth Education Options

Pelvic Mobility and Stability and Positional Techniques

Childbirth Education Options

Gore Parents Centre

Hatched Antenatal

Homebirth Aotearoa

Calmbirth

Awarua - Invercargill

My Little Kiwi

Breastfeeding

Childbirth Education Options

Breastfeeding Support

Online antenatal breastfeeding class

Where Should I Birth?

Place of Birth Research 1

Place of Birth Research 2

Place of Birth Research 3

Home Birth

Home Birth Sara Wickham

Vaginal Birth after C-Section

Gore Maternity

Southland Maternity

Advice for Dads

Becoming a dad

7 Helpful Tips

Being a Great Dad

Dad 101

Anxiety and Depression

What to Pack in your hospital bags

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