For healthy pregnant women who don't expect medical intervention based in Palmerston North. The centre has a strong focus on post-natal care.
Ruahine Street
Palmerston North
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www.birthingcentre.co.nz Te Papaioea Birthing Centre in Palmerston North is a primary birthing unit for women having low-risk births without intervention. Evidence consistently suggests that healthy women with a low-risk pregnancy who labour and deliver in a primary birthing facility have better outcomes for both mother and baby. Our philosophy is to offer that choice and support for women in the Manawatū who can give birth without intervention, with the support of her midwife. Pregnant women wanting to give birth at the centre must book in via their midwife. Midwives book in their mothers in the same way as they do at the hospital. Midwives must sign an access agreement to use the centre, and book women in by the 37th week of pregnancy. The service is free to all women who birth at the centre and are eligible for care in New Zealand hospitals, whose pregnancy is considered low-risk primary care. Te Papaioea Birthing Centre employs a team of highly experienced midwives, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, along with nurses who have strong experience in postnatal care and lactation qualifications. Every mother at the facility has her own room, in which she gives birth and also receives postnatal care. Te Papaioea Birthing Centre was opened in 2017 by the Wright Family Foundation and is managed by MidCentral District Health Board.
