River Ridge East Birth Centre

30/07/2025

💟 In anticipation of World Breastfeeding Week starting on Friday, it's definitely time for a reshare of one of our most requested recipes! 💟

* While we celebrate and support breastfeeding, we honour, respect and will assist with your individual choice(s) for how you wish to feed your baby

💟 To celebrate World Breastfeeding Week 2024, we've focused our attention on preparing and sharing foods with clients staying with us that are thought to increase breast milk, called Galactagogues.

A firm favourite of many previous clients (and most of the RREBC team and LMCs too), is Sharon’s so-good-you-can’t-stop-at-one-piece Lactation Slice.

We get asked for the recipe frequently! Oats, seeds and nuts are believed to support the production of milk. 💟

* While we celebrate and support breastfeeding, we honour, respect and will assist with your individual choice(s) for how you wish to feed your baby

29/07/2025

📸 We are loving this gorgeous work of art now proudly displayed here at River Ridge, thanks Adele from White Locket Photography!

Adele is an award-winning photographer specialising in maternity, newborn, and motherhood portraiture with over 15 years' experience. Her work is known for its emotional depth, timeless style, and strong sense of connection. Adele is deeply inspired by the stories of women and whānau, and her imagery reflects a respect for cultural identity, whakapapa, and the quiet power of motherhood.
Adele has recently relocated to Cambridge, giving Waikato families the opportunity to experience her signature maternity, newborn, and motherhood portraits.

About the Image – “Manaaki”
Draped in a traditional korowai and framed by soft, painterly light, the mother holds her pēpi with quiet strength and deep aroha. Her moko kauae, a symbol of identity and mana, speaks to generations past and future. The image is both intimate and proud, a visual expression of care, protection, and the enduring power of whakapapa.

Manaaki is the first portrait in Adele’s Mana Wahine series, a body of work created to celebrate the strength, nurturing power, and sacred role of wāhine Māori in their whānau and wider community. This image was awarded the Janay Johnstone Memorial Award for the Best Newborn Image at the 2021 NZIPP Iris Awards, a moment of immense honour and recognition. Adele also won the same award the following year...the only 2 years she has entered. 📸

29/07/2025

💌 We are excited to have Caterina back for another free Empowered Birth Tools session on Monday, 8th September! Get in touch with her via the email below to register. 💌

27/07/2025

🥳 Congratulations Brooke! We love seeing you and your group of mums, babies and mums-to-be every Wednesday! 🥳

BRSW Pre & Postnatal Fitness has officially hit 5 years in business💜

Looking back brings up all the feels, the growth, the challenges, the learning, the community, and the incredible mums I’ve had the privilege to support along the way.

What started as a passion to support mums through movement has grown into something so much bigger. A space for connection, strength, healing, and reminding ourselves that we matter too.

Thank you to everyone who has been part of the journey, whether you’ve come to a class, a 1:1 session, messaged with a question, or cheered from the sidelines, I’m so grateful 🫶

Here’s to 5 years🥂

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26/07/2025

🧶 A group of staff and Waikato LMCs came to our ‘Learn to Crochet’ workshop yesterday!

Thanks to Grace for preparing the session and our team of helpers, Sian, Dianne, Michelle and Tina!

We started by learning a granny square, with a plan to make some cot blankets. 🧶

24/07/2025

😍❤️ This sounds awesome! ❤️😍

A little something special happening next week at River Ridge East Birth Centre…

We’re lucky to have Pelvic Health Physio Laura Nolan from Active Health Waikato joining us before class for a casual chat and Q&A 🙌

Laura will be sharing her expertise, answering any pelvic health questions, and offering guidance around common concerns in pregnancy and postnatal recovery, from pelvic floor to abdominal separation, return to movement, and everything in between.

It’s a great chance to learn, connect, and feel more confident in your body, in our relaxed, bub-friendly class setting.

Not signed up to classes, not a problem, come along next week and try out the class for $10 and get this amazing added bonus 🤩

Can’t wait to have you with us, Laura 💛

24/07/2025

🤱 World Breastfeeding Week is coming up - 1st-7th August 2025 - supported by WHO, UNICEF and countries around the world. The theme for 2025 is Prioritise breastfeeding: create sustainable support systems. We can't wait to share the ways we are celebrating this year! 🤱

* While we celebrate and support breastfeeding, we honour, respect and will assist with your individual choice(s) for how you wish to feed your baby.

23/07/2025

💦🩵 Each of our pool rooms (attached to the birth rooms) is an inviting, warm and calming space. A fantastic option for natural pain relief, with the freedom to move around. 🩵💦

23/07/2025

👀 August 2025 dates for free Pregnancy Health Information Zoom Sessions for the Indian families in our community. 👀

21/07/2025

👀 Check out our website for our Antenatal Class dates for the remainder of the year - you’ll need to be quick, spaces are filling fast. 👀

Had an awesome group of parents at this weekend's Antenatal Class 🫶. Loved meeting you all and I'm looking forward to seeing some of you back at River Ridge East Birth Centre with your pēpi 👶🏾👶🏻👶🏼

21/07/2025

💚 Congratulations Rachael and Joseph, and welcome baby Harrison! 💚

16/07/2025

👀 Check out our advertisement for a Staff Midwife. Get in touch if you'd like to join our team. 👀

We offer a supportive and family-orientated working environment with handy, secure free parking, your chef-prepared meals provided, and a team of passionate and experienced people to work with! Our clinical team enjoy our self-rostering system, making it easy to fit work in around your own schedules and family needs.

Are you a midwife keen for a change of location or want to spend more time working in postnatal care? River Ridge East Birth Centre wants you!