Geraldine Zulch and Sara Westmoreland West Auckland Midwives

Geraldine Zulch and Sara Westmoreland West Auckland Midwives We offer a Early Pregnancy Clinic and Midwifery LMC care ~ Geraldine 0224996364 or Sara 0272929371 We believe birth is beautiful, powerful and life changing.

We believe a peaceful gentle birth will set your baby and you up for a good start to getting to know each other. We think birth can be powerful, incredible, amazing and beautiful. We don’t believe you need to “leave your dignity at the door”. We walk alongside you during pregnancy to help you grow a healthy baby, tone up your body and prepare it for an effective, powerful natural birth, and work on your mind to allay fears and anxiety. We walk next to you during birth, supporting, guiding, suggesting, and offering our love and knowledge so that you and your partner/birth attendants feel supported and dignified, and welcome your baby into the world. We don’t take over the process, we don’t pressure you or force you into anything you don’t want. We offer ideas, information, choices and knowledge that will help you through the birth process. We support your choices and advocate for you and your baby – if we need to we will stand between you and intervention to allow you time to birth your baby. We acknowledge that sometimes medical assistance and intervention is necessary, that sometimes drugs have their place – but with love and support, most women can birth their babies naturally, powerfully and peacefully. We advocate for waterbirth and homebirth. We believe in Active Birth to get your baby into a favourable position and allow gravity and motion to gently encourage your baby into the world. We enjoy using aromatherapy, music, gentle lighting, visualization, quiet voices, homeopathy and age-old wisdom to support you through birth and make it an incredible event. We choose to work in partnership with you and your partner/whanau to prepare you for birth and the first few weeks of new parenthood. Our relationship with you is built on respect, compassion, dignity and trust. We feel sharing your journey to parenthood is an honour and a privilege. We believe in treating newborns with gentle hands, quiet voices, and respect. We like to handle them with kindness and love, just as we do our own children. Encouraging parents to be the first voices the newborn hears, the first faces, the first soft touch is our goal. We “hold the space” for women in labour. We watch, monitor, keep everyone safe while we support and encourage. We support the support people and encourage them to be the one the birthing mother turns to. We affirm, reassure, focus, and empower the birthing woman and her partner. We don’t “deliver” babies, we support mothers to birth their babies. We want you and your partner to say “WOW, we did it” when your baby is in your arms, not feel that you were overwhelmed by the process. We believe women are incredibly strong and powerful. We know that our bodies were made perfectly to birth our babies, that we grow a baby that fits our pelvis, that some labours take more time than others. We know that a natural, gentle is better, safer and kinder for you and for your baby. Our website has many resources for you to make use of to help you grow a healthy baby, ready your body for an active, gentle, natural birth, and to recover quickly, in order to enjoy the first few weeks of motherhood. We provide free midwifery care to New Zealand residents.

What we need doesn’t surround us, it’s inside us .. What we need is to feel loved, supported and safe 🫶Photos shared wit...
23/05/2024

What we need doesn’t surround us, it’s inside us ..
What we need is to feel loved, supported and safe 🫶

Photos shared with consent, Thank You Mama x

👇🏽 - Rebecca is a colleague an amazing midwife and breastfeeding expert. Don’t miss out on her webinar “I am excited to...
28/08/2023

👇🏽 - Rebecca is a colleague an amazing midwife and breastfeeding expert. Don’t miss out on her webinar

“I am excited to announce an exclusive Masterclass- Breastfeeding: Blasting off to a great start! Hosted by Midwife and Lactation Consultant Rebecca Busby. This webinar has been carefully crafted to provide you with all the essential knowledge, tools and confidence you need to embark on a successful and fulfilling breastfeeding journey. Rebecca will be sharing hints and tips about what you’ll need to know in the first week of your breastfeeding journey, including antenatal hand expressing, skin to skin and the golden hour, getting the latch right from the beginning to avoid trauma, demystifying the second night, understanding colostrum, navigating engorgement, and more… Webinar is on Thursday 7th September 7-9pm. Click on the link below to reserve your spot!! https://rebecca-busby.mykajabi.com/pl/2147826949 See you there!!

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18/08/2023

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In the birthing room, fear gives way to courage, doubt gives way to belief, and pain gives way to joy.

Yessss to this one ☝️👇🏽
16/08/2023

Yessss to this one ☝️👇🏽

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🚽𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐎 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍🚽
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Did you know that sitting on the toilet is immensely helpful and prime real estate during labor?
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I like to call the toilet the “dilation station”.
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And it’s not because I am running out of patience, but it’s because I am viewing the birth as a whole with the womans/birthers emotional stability, feeling of safety and privacy.
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It’s common to see a parent start to relax, progress quickly and begin pushing after sitting on the toilet in privacy.
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𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫:
➖you are naturally prone to relaxing your pelvic floor and perineum while sitting on the toilet because it’s a place that your body remembers to open your lower sphincters.
➖the bathroom is a place of privacy and solitude and you are accustomed to relaxing in this room.
➖you are using gravity.
➖you are opening your pelvis in a nearly squat position.
➖you are allowing your baby lots of room to rotate and navigate the birth canal.
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𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐟𝐲:
✅put a pillow on the toilet tank so you can lean back and relax
✅you can turn around and straddle the toilet
✅place feet flat on the ground
✅have a partner rub your back and apply counter pressure when straddling the toilet
✅roll up towels and place them on the seat to give some cushion under your b***y
✅have your partner sit on a birth ball or chair in front of you so you can lean into them and relax
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The toilet is an excellent, free tool, and often a more than suitable tool.
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Love,
Flor Cruz

𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬
𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞, & 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭!
Little Rose Photography

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21/07/2023

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Lactation consultants can support and encourage you during breastfeeding with useful help, tips and tricks to make this period easier for you.

08/07/2023

✨” Sometimes we don’t have the birth we planned, but instead we have the birth we needed.
There is so much strength in surrender 🤍✨”

30/06/2023

The Gaze ❤️
Heloooo Mama I see you ..
this is a time just for you…
These Precious moments are so pure, just be and watch as you little one transitions to the world ..
Try be present .. everyone else can wait ..
Please Hold onto this moment ❤️

30/06/2023

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30/06/2023

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Absolutely 💯 upright and active 👏 Way to go Mama
30/06/2023

Absolutely 💯 upright and active 👏 Way to go Mama

24/06/2023

Breathing …… inhale….. exhale and release!
Great to settle ☝️‘S self … great tool to use when dealing with labour

Great visual and brief explanation
21/06/2023

Great visual and brief explanation

Go beyond outdated textbooks and learn how the cervix really opens during childbirth. ...

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21/06/2023

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✨ ATTENTION PLEASE!✨

🌿 We have been open in the ❤️ of Mangere for the past 4 years because of the HUGE generosity of the Wright Foundation with ZERO public funding.

🌿 This beautiful centre has served the whanau, aiga & families of over 860+ babies that have been born here 💜

🌿 Can we ask all those whom we were honoured to care for at Nga Hau Mangere Birthing Centre, to please show your support by:
✨Sending us a post or
✨Email Mangere@birthingcentre.co.nz
✨Share this post on your page
And tell the public & Te Whatu Ora about your experience!
(We love pics of you & your babies, and will assume you consent to them being displayed publicly ☺️)

🌿 We thank you for your support 👍🏽

Nga mihi ~ Fa'afetai lava ~ Malo 'Aupito
Fakaaue lahi ~ Vinaka ~ Meitaki Maata
Xie Xie ~ Namaste ~ Shukran 🙏🏽

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21/06/2023

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I release any fears or doubts, and trust in the power of my body and my baby.

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