Kapiti Midwife - Toni Strand

05/05/2025

💕Mother’s Day is this Sunday and we at Home Birth Kapiti want to acknowledge all the mums and special someone’s that are in our wonderful community💕

We have a small giveaway which includes coffee vouchers, a t-shirt and some other small goodies

We encourage you to like, follow, share our page and tag in that special someone you’d like to say thank you to.

Shout out to Vintage Village Cafe for donating the coffee vouchers. We appreciate you giving back to our community 🫶

01/05/2025

So worth the watch even if you’re not planking a home birth 🙌🏻

This is "Home Birth Documentary" by Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

10/02/2025

07/02/2025

Did you know that babies are born without established circadian rhythms?

What is a circadian rhythm? The term circadian comes from the Latin circa, meaning “around” (or “approximately”), and diēm, meaning “day”.

So, a circadian rhythm is a roughly 24-hour cycle that helps regulate the time we are awake to be during daylight hours and the time we are asleep to be during nighttime hours.

Our circadian rhythms are under the control of a number of different hormones. Perhaps the most well-known sleep hormone is melatonin.

When the sun goes down, melatonin levels rise and make us feel sleepy. But, the pineal gland, the area of the brain responsible for producing melatonin, is immature at birth.

Research on the development of circadian rhythms has concluded that sleep-related circadian rhythms do not begin to emerge until the eighth week after birth.

Further research indicates that circadian rhythms are not well established until babies are around four months of age and not mature until one year of age.

This means that young babies can’t tell night from day and no matter what we do, the development of circadian rhythms is a developmental milestone that cannot be rushed.

However, mother nature is wise and she designed us to be synchronous with our babies, so while babies cannot produce their own melatonin, nighttime breastmilk is a rich source of melatonin.

Nighttime breastmilk contains substantial amounts of melatonin, whereas daytime levels are undetectable. This is one of the miraculous reasons that nighttime breastmilk helps babies fall asleep.

Babies fall asleep easily at the breast because it is the way mother nature designed them to fall asleep.

So, stop googling, “is it ok to breastfeed my baby to sleep?”, ignore the silly “feed, play, sleep” mantras and go ahead and nurse your baby to sleep. To all the mums reading this right now as you’ve just nursed your baby to sleep - you’re amazing! 💗

P.S Tag a mama who needs this reminder today too 🤱

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03/02/2025

You always have a choice. Advice is always recommendation only…not what you HAVE to do.

29/10/2024

Home Birth Awareness Week has us thinking about some common MYTHS. Why were you told you couldn't have a homebirth? Did others thoughts or fears stop you from experiencing freedom of choice when it came to your birth?

24/10/2024

The biomedical model of maternity care provision focuses on risk and has persuaded many women/parents and midwives that pregnancy and birth are potentially dangerous and dysfunctional. The biomedical model of care offers to save women from their unreliable birthing bodies by the application of standardised treatment protocols e.g. the solution to being postdates is induction of labour. The overuse of medical interventions in maternity and has undermined women’s self trust and self confidence and prevents midwives from providing the women-centred, individualised care that protects and promotes the normalcy of women’s maternity experiences and empowers women to trust their innate reproductive capacities.

We all need to trust women’s bodies and birth - they have both worked well for millennia.

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22/10/2024

Have you considered waiting for your body to labour on its own terms? Chances of a normal birth are much greater! ❤️

08/10/2024

03/10/2024

October is just a “month” we all know we love our whole lives in this life &infantloss

13/09/2024

Beautiful

30/06/2024

🖤 MUMS & BUBS 🖤

Term 3 starts Monday the 22nd of June!
Plenty of spaces - join week one or when you are ready to leave the house and make the missed classes up next term.

Enrolment is easy! You can either send a message or enrol online.

www.therealmotherhood.co.nz