GentleBirth Midwives

GentleBirth Midwives GentleBirth midwives believe in respecting the mother and baby during pregnancy and birth and allowing labour to unfold in its own time.

We believe birth is beautiful, powerful and life changing. We believe a peaceful gentle birth will set your baby and you up for a good start to getting to know each other. We think birth can be powerful, incredible, amazing and beautiful. We don’t believe you need to “leave your dignity at the door”. We walk alongside you during pregnancy to help you grow a healthy baby, tone up your body and prep

are it for an effective, powerful natural birth, and work on your mind to allay fears and anxiety. We walk next to you during birth, supporting, guiding, suggesting, and offering our love and knowledge so that you and your partner/birth attendants feel supported and dignified, and welcome your baby into the world. We don’t take over the process, we don’t pressure you or force you into anything you don’t want. We offer ideas, information, choices and knowledge that will help you through the birth process. We support your choices and advocate for you and your baby – if we need to we will stand between you and intervention to allow you time to birth your baby. We acknowledge that sometimes medical assistance and intervention is necessary, that sometimes drugs have their place – but with love and support, most women can birth their babies naturally, powerfully and peacefully. We advocate for waterbirth and homebirth. We believe in Active Birth to get your baby into a favourable position and allow gravity and motion to gently encourage your baby into the world. We enjoy using aromatherapy, music, gentle lighting, visualization, quiet voices, homeopathy and age-old wisdom to support you through birth and make it an incredible event. We choose to work in partnership with you and your partner/whanau to prepare you for birth and the first few weeks of new parenthood. Our relationship with you is built on respect, compassion, dignity and trust. We feel sharing your journey to parenthood is an honour and a privilege. We believe in treating newborns with gentle hands, quiet voices, and respect. We like to handle them with kindness and love, just as we do our own children. Encouraging parents to be the first voices the newborn hears, the first faces, the first soft touch is our goal. We “hold the space” for women in labour. We watch, monitor, keep everyone safe while we support and encourage. We support the support people and encourage them to be the one the birthing mother turns to. We affirm, reassure, focus, and empower the birthing woman and her partner. We don’t “deliver” babies, we support mothers to birth their babies. We want you and your partner to say “WOW, we did it” when your baby is in your arms, not feel that you were overwhelmed by the process. We believe women are incredibly strong and powerful. We know that our bodies were made perfectly to birth our babies, that we grow a baby that fits our pelvis, that some labours take more time than others. We know that a natural, gentle is better, safer and kinder for you and for your baby. Our website has many resources for you to make use of to help you grow a healthy baby, ready your body for an active, gentle, natural birth, and to recover quickly, in order to enjoy the first few weeks of motherhood.

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27/09/2022

See how plump this cord is at birth? Even a 5 minute delay in clamping the cord will help baby to receive all their blood volume, have more stem cells and more iron. The benefits last months! 📷 by
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“Delayed cord clamping is talked about a lot more now then ever before. Ask you care provider what delayed cord clamping means to them. Does it mean 30-45 seconds post delivery, does it mean waiting until the cord goes limp and white, signifying that there is no more blood left in the cord?
A baby’s entire blood volume is about 35 ml/lbs of body weight at birth. When the cord is clamped and cut immediately, babies miss out on that blood, and their bodies compensate by increasing plasma volume. It can take them a week to get back to their ideal red blood cell volume.” Words by
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✨Wisdom Wednesdays✨

27/09/2022

“Giving birth in ecstasy: This is our birthright and our body's intent. Mother Nature, in her wisdom, prescribes birthing hormones that take us outside our usual state, so that we can be transformed on every level as we enter motherhood.� This exquisite hormonal orchestration unfolds optimally when birth is undisturbed, enhancing safety for both mother and baby. Science is also increasingly discovering what we realize as mothers—that our way of birth affects us life-long, both mother and baby, and that an ecstatic birth—a birth that takes us beyond our self—is the gift of a life-time.” �Dr. Sarah Buckley

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27/09/2022

The strongest muscle of the entire human body belongs not to men, but to women: The Uterus 💪❤
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27/09/2022

♥️ “What if we told women the truth about birth
We’d have to tell them that contractions will probably be more than “surges” or “sensations.”

That they’ll probably rock your f✨cking world and leave you begging for salvation as you clutch the edge of the tub or the hospital linens

That your gentle breathing exercises and your Spotify soundtrack will be left in the dust as you sweat and pant and sway and swear your way through it

That you’ll trip harder than any mushroom you ever did in college and vomit with the same ferocity and travel to places deep within yourself that you didn’t know existed. That you’ll float above your body and simultaneously be trapped in it with an intensity you’ve never tasted

And in that intensity, in the sweating and the swearing and the swaying and the vomiting and the endless hours of contractions crashing down upon you
You’ll find your strength
You’ll find a resilience you’ve never known
You’ll find the power you need for the journey of motherhood ahead

In the messy humanity of it all
You’ll find that you are holy
A portal to the divine
Capable of indescribable miracles
A vessel of sacred life

What if we told women the truth about birth?
We’d have to tell them they are capable of anything
Worthy of being treated like goddesses
Made to walk through the flames
Surf the tidal waves
Dive into the underworld
And come out alive

Not unscathed
Not unchanged
But whole
And healed
And ready to take on the world

If we told women the truth about birth
We’d have to admit that we’ve lied about everything else
And that they are more powerful
More fierce
More capable
More beautiful
Than we’ve ever let on.

If we told the truth about birth?
We’d shatter the world.”

Spirit Y Sol

27/09/2022

Hello baby!
We are kind of obsessed with this photo of baby Annie belting it just after birth. Hello baby, hello awesome baby lungs.
Thank you to Annie’s fabulous parents for letting us share their babe’s first photo. Our clients are just the best.

29/12/2021

Many healthy babies have jaundice in the first month after birth. Is this condition actually harmful or does it offer protection to newborns?

28/12/2021

Why use a birth ball? The birth ball comforts and strengthens your lower back. Your pelvis is better supported and symmetrical as well.
When? During pregnancy and while in labor.
We have some really helpful advice about using a birth ball on our website: https://www.spinningbabies.com/pregnancy-birth/techniques/birth-balls/
Raise your hand in the comments if you’ve ever used a birth ball 🙋‍♀️

14/12/2021

Finding out you are pregnant does not mean you must stop breastfeeding your toddler. Many mothers choose to continue breastfeeding throughout pregnancy, while others decide to wean. If you continue breastfeeding through your pregnancy, you may find yourself breastfeeding both an infant and an older....

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Waitakere
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