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Birth Preference List

NZ$5.00

Empower your clients with this comprehensive birth preference checklist, designed to guide meaningful discussions during birth planning chats. This easy-to-use resource helps expectant parents explore their options for birth mode, environment, pain relief, interventions, monitoring, placenta care, newborn care, feeding, postnatal stay, and traditional practices. By providing this checklist, you can support informed decision-making and ensure a smoother, more personalized birth experience for your clients. Perfect for midwives to use in clinics, home visits, or antenatal classes.

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Empower your clients with this comprehensive birth preference checklist, designed to guide meaningful discussions during birth planning chats. This easy-to-use resource helps expectant parents explore their options for birth mode, environment, pain relief, interventions, monitoring, placenta care, newborn care, feeding, postnatal stay, and traditional practices. By providing this checklist, you can support informed decision-making and ensure a smoother, more personalized birth experience for your clients. Perfect for midwives to use in clinics, home visits, or antenatal classes.

Empower your clients with this comprehensive birth preference checklist, designed to guide meaningful discussions during birth planning chats. This easy-to-use resource helps expectant parents explore their options for birth mode, environment, pain relief, interventions, monitoring, placenta care, newborn care, feeding, postnatal stay, and traditional practices. By providing this checklist, you can support informed decision-making and ensure a smoother, more personalized birth experience for your clients. Perfect for midwives to use in clinics, home visits, or antenatal classes.

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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