Pregnancy & Birth

You Are Completely Enough

By Lacey Owen She walks slowly toward labour and delivery cradling her tight swollen belly. A loving gesture she doesn’t even realise she’s making…

Reclaiming Your Birthing Journey

Midwife, māmā and founder of Village Birth Aotearoa, Candice Kovacs-Milner, is on a mission to transform the way whānau experience antenatal education. After noticing that…

Birth

By Hayley Zemontas For all the c-section mothers willingly cleaved apart,who dreamed of ‘natural’ labour with all your stubborn heart. This truly has no bearing on how…

We Wonder…..

You wonder about your little one, snugly ensconced in your womb… tiny arms stretching out, fingers pressing into the enveloping tissue of your body,…

The Enemies of Sleep

By Dr. Dawn Kingston Up to 80% of pregnant women experience some kind of sleep disturbance in pregnancy. That means that almost every pregnant…