14/09/2025
🩷 Experience Birth Differently: Helensville & Home Birthing 🩷
When you choose a primary birthing centre—or even your own home—you’re choosing more than a place. You’re choosing care that honours you. Here’s what research shows about the benefits, especially for women with low-risk pregnancies:
— Greater sense of safety, calm & control in the environment you know & trust. Studies show labour progresses better when mums feel safe.
— Lower intervention rates: fewer caesareans, fewer assisted births, fewer routine interventions.
— Better maternal outcomes: less postpartum haemorrhage, fewer severe perineal tears.
— Better neonatal outcomes: higher Apgar scores, fewer transfers to NICU when births are planned in primary units or at home.
— More satisfaction: women report feeling more seen, more heard, more in control of the birth journey.
Choosing Helensville or your home means you get continuity of care with your midwife, in the places that feel like you. More comfort, more ownership.
If you’re low risk and want a birth full of connection, respect & real choices—let’s talk about your options. Because birthing should feel amazing, safe, and powerful.
📍 Renee Blair Midwife
