Peak Midwives

21/12/2025

💚🎄Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year from the team @ Peak Midwives🎄💚

We’re excited to welcome Bonnie back from maternity leave in 2026. A heartfelt thank-you to Rebecca for the fantastic work you have done while supporting our team — we’ve truly loved working with you.

Over the coming weeks, Bonnie will gradually phase back in, and Rebecca will slowly step back from the role.

We wish you all a healthy, safe and happy festive season, and a bright new year.

Jo, Sonya, Rebecca and Bonnie 💗

23/11/2025

✨✨Last breastfeeding class for 2025 ✨✨

Our next FREE Antenatal Breastfeeding Class is Monday 1 December at 5.30pm.

Here's what you need to know:
*It starts at 5.30pm in the Education Centre at Hawke's Bay Hospital
* please register on arrival
* It's FREE
* Expectant parents and whānau are welcome
* We have a Lactation Consultant to teach you how to read baby's feeding cues, get baby positioned and more
* It's a great opportunity to ask any questions before pēpi arrives.

If class needs to be cancelled for any reason, it will be announced on Facebook.

31/10/2025

Hopefully they schedule another for later in the month 🤞

14/10/2025

Baby Loss Awareness Week 2025 🌈👼

"Sometimes, the smallest things take up the biggest room in your heart".

Behind every statistic, every candle, every quote is a baby that is loved and remembered by a family who longed to meet them.

This baby loss awareness week, it's important to remember that for these families their grief goes beyond just the one week of the year.

However this week reminds us of the little ones who are no longer in our arms or body, but forever in our hearts.

Sending love, light & healing to parents and families navigating their loss — your babies will always be with you.

Today - 15th October @ 7pm - light a candle. The wave of light - Together we will remember every baby that has passed away🩶🕯️✨

23/09/2025

💊Panadol is still safe in pregnancy 💊

Recent international headlines have caused unnecessary concern among expectant mothers about the use of paracetamol (also known as acetaminophen, or as brand names like Panadol in New Zealand or Tylenol in the USA). The New Zealand College of Midwives wants to reassure pregnant women that paracetamo...

01/09/2025

On tonight at the hospital - you don’t need to be a first time mum to attend ✨

Our next FREE Antenatal Breastfeeding Class is Monday 1 September at 5.30pm.

Here's what you need to know:
*It starts at 5.30pm in the Education Centre at Hawke's Bay Hospital
* please register on arrival
* It's FREE
* Expectant parents and whānau are welcome
* We have a Lactation Consultant to teach you how to read baby's feeding cues, get baby positioned and more
* It's a great opportunity to ask any questions before pēpi arrives.

If class needs to be cancelled for any reason, it will be announced on Facebook.

29/08/2025

Plunket line is a very useful tool in your toolbox ! Ring them instead of “googling” 👊

When sleep’s not happening, you're tired and worried and patience is running low, we’re just a phone call away. Plunket nurses are on call day and night - for the cries, the questions, and the completely shattered. Anyone can call free, 24/7 on 0800 933 922 ☎

29/08/2025

✨Nutrition tips for preparing for LABOUR & DELIVERY✨

💦Drink plenty of fluids

🍜Prep some freezer meals

Eat MORE fats: 🥑🥥🥩🍣🥛

- Avocado
- Coconut
- Meat
- Salmon
- Full-fat dairy

Add dates & red raspberry leaf tea to your diet
from 35 weeks ❣️

19/08/2025

Check out this great coffee group 💗

📣Come along and join Te Mana Waiū with @ to cover all your car seat safety questions.📣

🚗We will have a qualified technician here to help with car seat and capsule installations, as well as checking current installations to ensure every member of your whānau is safe while in the car.

💚We will also have the team from the HB Maternity Consumer Representatives with us to hear all your birth stories, good and bad. Whether it is a birth debrief you need or have feedback you wish to pass on, this is the place for you. 💚

🤱We will have Free Breastfeeding Support available as well as kai and hot drinks.☕🍪

📲Secure your free spot today!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/car-seat-workshop-maternity-consumer-representative-gathering-tickets-1555047612269?aff=oddtdtcreator

11/08/2025

If anyone is looking for a Dietitian - can highly recommend Teresa ✨

Teresa is a Dietitian specialising in paediatrics and women's health nutrition, and mum to 3 year old twins. Her private practice is called Nourish Aotearoa, and has recently opened here in Hawkes Bay.

Teresa can help you with nutrition advice for your baby/child as well as for yourself - she sees women for advice around endometriosis and PCOS, fertility, perimenopause, pregnancy and postpartum.

You can visit her website if you would like any more info

Nourish Aotearoa is a New Zealand Registered Dietitian service specialising in nutrition for women’s health, fertility, pregnancy, postpartum and paediatrics. Based in Hawkes Bay and helping clients online throughout Aotearoa.

30/07/2025

Free bf antenatal class - learn about breastfeeding and bottle feeding 💕

Our next FREE Antenatal Breastfeeding Class is Monday 4 August at 5.30pm.

Here's what you need to know:
*It starts at 5.30pm in the Education Centre at Hawke's Bay Hospital
* please register on arrival
* It's FREE
* Expectant parents and whānau are welcome
* We have a Lactation Consultant to teach you how to read baby's feeding cues, get baby positioned and more
* It's a great opportunity to ask any questions before pēpi arrives.

If class needs to be cancelled for any reason, it will be announced on Facebook.

30/07/2025

Free antenatal classes ✨

💚 If you are due to have a pēpi in January or February 2026 contact us today to secure your spot!

💜Our classes fill up very fast so be sure to contact us ASAP!

💌 Contact us via Facebook or email: whanaketekura@ttoh.iwi.nz