Birth Wisdom - Empowered and Home Birth in Golden Bay

13/11/2025

💙What and who is Birth Wisdom? 💙
The Birth Wisdom- Empowered and Home Birth in Golden Bay community is here to share knowledge and support local whānau to achieve empowered pregnancy, birth, and postnatal experiences. We are a voluntary, grass roots community group, made up of those in the community that get involved. We welcome attendance from anyone of interest and those with knowledge or experiences to share.
Our aim is to provide support to our midwives and national body, Home Birth Aotearoa, to ensure that the women of Aotearoa can make the choices they need to feel empowered during their birth experiences, including ensuring home birth remains an accessible option for all whānau.
We meet once per month for cups of tea and chats, and sometimes deeper sharing circles. You can borrow books from our awesome library for free and we offer a professional birth pool hire service and Sacred Birthing Kit.
If you wish to get involved or hire a birth pool, join our mailing list where invites are mailed 📩 birthwisdomgb@gmail.com

12/11/2025

Kia ora koutou,

Our next and final gathering for 2025 will be on Friday November 21st from 10:30-12:30 in Hamama. All are welcome!

Birth Wisdom meets on the 3rd Friday of each month, as a space to connect with others about our journeys in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
Babies and little people are welcome in the space, as are partners, and wider family members.
Please bring some kai to share for morning tea if you can. Hot drinks provided.

Please PM for address details or email birthwisdomgb@gmail.com to sign up to our personal invite list.

Ngā mihi mahana,
Alesha 🩵

31/10/2025

📖 A new book for our Birth Wisdom community library 📚 Free to borrow and open to donations of you're having a clear out 📖

27/08/2025

Now free to view, with special thanks to producer and midwife, Sarah, for sharing it with us 🩵
“For me, the inspiration from the start was to create a resource that resonates closely for hapū whānau of Aotearoa, supporting them to better understand home birth as an option. It feels very exciting to finally have this to share with you all – please share it far and wide.”
– Sarah Dow

Home Birth Documentary This special and beautiful documentary celebrates the magic of birthing at home and explores the experiences, challenges, and power of home birthing in New Zealand, highlighting personal stories and expert insights to encourage informed discussion about place of birth options....

23/02/2025

My wonderful friend Eva is in need of feedback for her research. Eva does great advocacy work for mothers and your answers would be much appreciated. Thanks, Alesha ☺️

Have 10-15min spare? Children 3 and under? Pop over here to contribute to exciting research on parenthood, walking and health: bit.ly/parent-centred-urbanism

Please share far and wide around Aotearoa!

09/02/2025

Today we had the delight of watching the Home Birth Documentary at the Village Theatre . It warmed our hearts and inspired some good conversations afterwards. Well done Sarah and team, it's absolutely wonderful ✨🎬🤱🏽✨

06/02/2025

This Sunday at the Village Theatre, come and join us!
Tickets only $15 with complimentary afternoon tea to follow. Buy online or at the door.
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21/01/2025

We're excited about getting together for this one! https://www.facebook.com/share/15bKXigVR6/
Special thanks to Home Birth Aotearoa and Home Birth Documentary for the collaboration 💙

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06/01/2025

Looking forward to this film, which comes out early this year. Maybe a Tākaka screening?

01/10/2024

This is good information to know!

27/07/2024

This is our new hot water heating kit, available for hire alongside our birth pools for Golden Bay whānau 💧 🔥 Thanks to Home Birth Aotearoa for the grant to make this possible 💧🔥 Our first Dad to set it up did so in a hurry at 37 weeks and gives it a top review! 💧🔥

16/06/2024

It's been nearly a week since our regional groups hosted screenings and gatherings around the film, Born at Home. We would love to hear how you found the film, what you loved about it and about the gathering, who you went with etc etc.

📷: What a sweet day we had, making treats, gathering to watch the Born at Home film and celebrating . And knowing that other Home Birth Aotearoa groups were gathering to do the same, all around Aotearoa! Thanks team and community. Birth Wisdom - Empowered and Home Birth in Golden Bay