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When To Contact Guide

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Our When to Contact Guide provides clear instructions on when and how to reach out for medical support, ensuring you get your midwife at the right time. Have this somewhere accessible like stuck on their fridge so you’re always reminded when to call for emergency and non urgent queries.

To make this resource accessible to more people, we’ve translated it into multiple languages, including:

  • Māori

  • Samoan

  • Tongan

  • Mandarin (Simplified Chinese)

  • Arabic

  • Spanish

  • Hindi

  • Japanese

We are committed to providing inclusive and accessible healthcare information for diverse communities. If you need this guide in another language, please let us know!

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Our When to Contact Guide provides clear instructions on when and how to reach out for medical support, ensuring you get your midwife at the right time. Have this somewhere accessible like stuck on their fridge so you’re always reminded when to call for emergency and non urgent queries.

To make this resource accessible to more people, we’ve translated it into multiple languages, including:

  • Māori

  • Samoan

  • Tongan

  • Mandarin (Simplified Chinese)

  • Arabic

  • Spanish

  • Hindi

  • Japanese

We are committed to providing inclusive and accessible healthcare information for diverse communities. If you need this guide in another language, please let us know!

Our When to Contact Guide provides clear instructions on when and how to reach out for medical support, ensuring you get your midwife at the right time. Have this somewhere accessible like stuck on their fridge so you’re always reminded when to call for emergency and non urgent queries.

To make this resource accessible to more people, we’ve translated it into multiple languages, including:

  • Māori

  • Samoan

  • Tongan

  • Mandarin (Simplified Chinese)

  • Arabic

  • Spanish

  • Hindi

  • Japanese

We are committed to providing inclusive and accessible healthcare information for diverse communities. If you need this guide in another language, please let us know!

🌿 Placenta Anatomy 🌿

Learn all about 

Placenta shape & size
Two surfaces
Umbilical cord
Membranes
Placenta circulation
Placenta variations

 

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🌿 The Placenta 🌿

Did you know the placenta is like your pepi’s home while they’re in the womb? 🏠💖
The placenta is an incredible organ that a mama grows only during pregnancy and acts as a life-sustaining connection between mama and p
✨ Traditional birthing practices in aoeteroa ✨

Read more to learn about

Place of birth
Karakia
Muka tie
Burying of the whenua
Wahakura 
Cultural framework in midwifery

 

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✨ Homebirth ✨

When becoming pregnant it is important to do your research and figure out where your ideal place of birth is. 

If a mama has a low risk pregnancy then the safest place to give birth is at home or in a primary birthing unit. However th
✨ PLACENTA ACRETA ✨

Placenta accreta spectrum is a serious but rare complication in pregnancy.
It occurs when the placenta invades deeply into the muscle layer of the uterus (womb).
There are three categories:
* Placenta accreta
* Placenta increta
*
✨ Acupuncture ✨

Acupuncture can be used in many settings for pregnancy & labour and birth, and the postnatal period. 
 
 Acupuncture during pregnancy has been proven to be effective in helping mama relieve common conditions such as:
* Nausea
* M
✨ Hands and Knees ✨

One of my favourite position to be adapted in labour and birth and I love catching a pēpi in this position. 

* Gravity can help bring the baby down and out
* The uterus can contract more strongly and efficiently
* The pēpi can g
Group B strep✨ ✨
Group B Streptococcus is a bacteria that can be present in the vagina without causing any symptoms.
It is found in 15-25% of mama and is typically harmless.
This screening test is optional due to the low risk of infection, with about
✨ Peanut Ball ✨

What is a peanut ball used for???

During labour a peanut ball is placed between the knees or ankles to help open the pelvis which can allow the pēpi to find a more favourable position. 

I suggest using this when the baby is in a po