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EBOP Home Birth Association, Whakatane (2025)

01/05/2024

Introducing our guest speaker for our May meeting next Monday 6th - Tracey Perry from ✨

Tracey is a pre and postpartum fitness specialist who runs a Pilates studio based in Coastlands. She has a passion for helping people feel safe and strong in their bodies. With her training she has done specialised study into working with people who experience pelvic floor dysfunction.

Tracey is a mum of two school aged kids and believes that people should be free to choose what birth suits them. She believes that education and freedom of thought is important.

We are so excited to hear what Tracey has to share. So come along to Whānau Āwhina / Plunket at 10 Victoria Avenue Whakatāne, 10am - 12pm.

We have a super comfortable space complete with couches for feeding and a kitchen for preparing hot drinks & kai. Lots of toys for babies & bigger kids too 🥰 can’t wait to see you there!

29/04/2024

Come and join us for our May meeting!

We have a super exciting guest speaker this month. Stay tuned for her announcement 🎉

We offer a casual get together of local mums and allied health professionals who are interested in home birth and supporting birth physiology.

Babies & toddlers are welcome! The space down the back of the Plunket rooms here in Whakatane is well-equipped with comfy couches for breastfeeding, toys for the kids and a kitchen for a cuppa!

Please spread the word with your mates - whether a like us, a naturally-minded mama, someone who has homebirthed before, someone who is interested in this option for the future or someone searching for community and a safe place to learn about birth! All are welcome!
We know that homebirth isn’t for everyone, nor is it readily available in our community, which is why we welcome anyone to our meetings, be it that your a homebirth hippy or maybe you’re just someone who’s a little curious.. we promise at our meetings, curiosity won’t kill the cat.
 Gathering our community of homebirth advocates here in the Eastern Bay helps to show our local healthcare providers that we want and *need* this service provision to be accessible.

We look forward to seeing you there!

02/04/2024

Hey homebirthers, conscious mothers & allied professionals in our community!

We need your help!

We have put our hands up to host a screening of the incredible documentary “Born at Home.” But in order for the screening to go ahead, we need to sell enough tickets!

We in the Eastern Bay know how hard it is to secure a midwife-supported homebirth due to staff shortages. But we also know how incredible, empowering and life changing the experience of birthing at home can be for women, families and the babies born there.

So please, grab your husband, your girlfriends, your mother in law, your midwife - and come along in support of homebirth. Whether you’ve had one, want to have one, wished you could have had one, or just want to support women’s right to choose - this is for you.

THE DETAILS:
Tickets are $22 + $1.77 booking fee
You will only be charged when the threshold for ticket sales is met
Head to the link in our bio to reserve yours!

WHEN:
International Day of the Midwife
Monday 6 May 2024
6pm

WHERE:
WhakaMax Movies
100 The Strand, Whakatane

Any questions, drop them below!

We cannot wait to connect with you, in support of accessible homebirth for all ❤️

26/03/2024

Come and join us for our April meeting!

We have a super exciting guest speaker this month. Stay tuned for her announcement 🎉

We offer a casual get together of local mums and allied health professionals who are interested in home birth and supporting birth physiology.

Babies & toddlers are welcome! The space down the back of the Plunket rooms here in Whakatane is well-equipped with comfy couches for breastfeeding, toys for the kids and a kitchen for a cuppa!

Please spread the word with your mates - whether a like us, a naturally-minded mama, someone who has homebirthed before, someone who is interested in this option for the future or someone searching for community and a safe place to learn about birth! All are welcome!
We know that homebirth isn’t for everyone, nor is it readily available in our community, which is why we welcome anyone to our meetings, be it that your a homebirth hippy or maybe you’re just someone who’s a little curious.. we promise at our meetings, curiosity won’t kill the cat.
 Gathering our community of homebirth advocates here in the Eastern Bay helps to show our local healthcare providers that we want and *need* this service provision to be accessible.

We look forward to seeing you there!

25/03/2024

🥁 Introducing our April guest!! 🥁

None other than the incredible Nell Hurst

Nell was born & raised in the beautiful Bay of Islands, now living in Tauranga and facilitating the Tauranga Trust Home Birth group. She studied midwifery over 15 years ago, practicing for 10 years before realising she wanted to support women in a different way to what was expected of a midwife working in NZ. It took her being forced from her job during the pandemic to realise this.

Nell’s absolute passion is to fully support women’s choice, to be and birth supported, and without fear. She believes that planned home birth is where most women will feel safest and not “observed”, allowing physiology to unfold.

Nell herself had four vaginal births, although not at home. Her hubby said recently that they would plan home births if they were to have babies now. Nell’s two grand babies were planned home births ❤️

Nell works as a doula, supporting women and their families through pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Her wealth of experience and knowledge, rooted in loving trust is such a divine energy to be around.

We are so excited for Nell to share her wisdom with our eastern bay community! So tell your hapū friends and come along with babies & toddlers in tow (or not), to our relaxing and homely safe space.

Monday 8 April, 10am at the Whakatāne Plunket Rooms, 10 Victoria Avenue.

11/03/2024

We love listening to podcasts covering all things pregnancy, birth and postpartum!

There are sooo many great shows out there - let us know below, which are your favourites?

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08/03/2024

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07/03/2024

Important words shared from Dr Rachel Reed’s latest email newsletter:

The mainstream maternity system evolved to sustain medicine and control women’s reproduction. It was never set up to promote physiology or to facilitate an empowering experience of childbirth. The origins (herstory) of the system underpins how it operates today. Medicine continues to control childbirth, and the system works very well for medicine and medical institutions. I should probably add (before people get defensive) that medicine does a good job of managing pathology and complications for the minority of women who need interventions. However, it also does a bad job of supporting physiology and meeting women’s emotional and psychological needs. Please note that I am not judging individuals within maternity institutions because they are constrained by training, socialisation, workplace culture, and experiences that centre the needs of the institution. My focus is on how the culture (roots) underpin the structure of the system (tree trunk) and the fruits (practice).

Birth interventions increase year after year. Physical outcomes have not improved, and emotional/psychological harm is endemic. You can’t change the maternity system from within the structure of the system. We already have decades worth of research (Cochrane Reviews included) supporting the need to change service structures and refuting common, routine medical interventions. Research only gets implemented into service delivery if it aligns with the culture and supports intervention (e.g. the ARRIVE Trial). Even clinical guidelines are ignored in favour of cultural norms (e.g. induction for ‘big’ babies). We have midwives in ‘high places’, yet their voices hold no real power against medicine, and we have consumers on advisory boards who are treated as ‘tick boxes’ rather than listened to. And we are grateful for crumbs, unable to see how those crumbs further sustain the medical system (e.g. in Australia, our publicly funded homebirth services are led by obstetricians!). You can prune the tree, but you can’t change the fruit.

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28/02/2024

We are so excited to announce our guest speaker for next week’s March homebirth meet - 🥰

Imke, Mother of two children, experienced a traumatic hospital birth with her first, followed by a healing homebirth with her second. She is passionate about empowering woman through birth photography and believes her perspective can help women reflect and celebrate their strength through birth.

Come along with your babies and toddlers to a safe and welcoming environment, with couches for breastfeeding, a kitchen to prepare bottles or a cuppa, and treat yourself to some home baking (provided) while connecting with our community of supportive, welcoming māmā!

You don’t have to have had a homebirth, or even wanted to have one, to attend.

We are creating this space for ALL likeminded mothers to come together, connect with other women and allied professionals in our Eastern Bay community.

Monday 4 March
10am - 12pm

Whakatane Plunket Rooms
10 Victoria Avenue
 Let us know below if you’ll be attending! ❤️

25/02/2024

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22/02/2024

Come and join us for our March meeting!

We have a super exciting guest speaker this month. Stay tuned for her announcement 🎉

We offer a casual get together of local mums and allied health professionals who are interested in homebirth.

Babies & toddlers are welcome! The space down the back of the Plunket rooms here in Whakatane is well-equipped with comfy couches for breastfeeding, toys for the kids and a kitchen for a cuppa!

Please spread the word with your mates - whether a like us, a naturally-minded mama, someone who has homebirthed before, someone who is interested in this option for the future or someone searching for community and a safe place to learn about birth!
 Gathering our community of homebirth advocates here in the Eastern Bay helps to show our local healthcare providers that we want and *need* this service provision to be accessible.

We look forward to seeing you there!

22/02/2024

Re-share of this incredible home birth, a vba2c!!
Lala shares of the strength she found within, and the journey of advocating for herself, seeking aligned care providers, to ensure she got the birth she knew she was capable of!

Have you had a caesarean?
Would you consider a home birth?

We would love to hear your thoughts and experiences below!

20/02/2024

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18/02/2024

Hey All, I’m Abby!

Im a mother to two incredible girls, a wife, a nature loving cowgirl, a believer in the universe and all her wisdom and a co-facilitator of the EBOP homebirth group.

My journey into the birth world begun at the end of 2023 when I decided it was time to step away from the farm work I’d been trying to fit around mum life, and step into what had been calling my heart since I’d birthed my first born - birth.

The pull to find a way to be with women was strong, yet the balance of mum life so ever present.
Which is why I decided to train as a healing birth practitioner through .birth.
A role in which I have the honour of standing with women on their path to healing, while also being available to my girls.
At the same time I took a deep dive into birth physiology through course, deeping my trust and respect for mother nature and her incredible design that is birth. Finding myself in awe of the dance of labour, of mother and child, of the rite of passage that it is, and frustrated at the white suits who try to turn the music off.
Bella then asked me to jump on board with the EBOP homebirth group.
Hell yes, I said!

My birth stories are below so I won’t say much there, other than it was my unsupported, normal on paper birth that sparked my interest in wanting to understand birth more and the blurred lines between physiology and intervention.
And it was my empowering, fully supported, trust lead, home birth that made me want to open my passion for birth in a way that would allow me to support other women.
I am a strong believer in choice and meeting women where they are on their joinery. I believe there is so much power in acknowledging someone’s pains and triumphs and offering the guidance that they seek.
Though I do believe there is space and sometimes necessity for medicine in birth, I also believe that fear makes it more prevalent, than needed.
Birth never used to be taught in class, but by women witnessing sisters, mothers, aunties and friends giving birth, by the sharing of stories and the passing down of wisdom from wise women to wise women.

That is me,
I look forward to getting to know you all more too xx

15/02/2024

Hey friends 👋🏻 there are a few new faces here so I thought it was time for an updated introduction!

My name is Bella. I’m a mother of two, a wife, a believer, a doula, and co-facilitator of the EBOP homebirth group.

I started our local group last year following the epic, empowering freebirth of my son Joe. I came out of that experience unexpectedly angry. I thought I would find myself in a blissful birthy haze for many weeks, being that my hormones were completely undisturbed, I was supported with true love and respect, and having had my dream experience.

But my anger and deep grief came from the crashing realisation that birth, as it is experienced by many/most women across the world, is so heartbreakingly far from what it is designed to be.

My daughter’s birth, two years prior, was one of these. A homebirth transfer to hospital, where I was subject to unnecessary intervention and left shellshocked with trauma - wondering what on earth just happened to me? I struggled to bond with her, felt crippling anxiety for the first time in my life, and was given zero support to process my experience, let alone validation of my feelings, by the very system who inflicted my pain.

This experience led me to study the art of birth trauma support with .birth and journey through a doula mentorship with ❤️ these two women have informed my practice and presence as a mother and birthworker immensely.

I have had the privilege of holding space for many women’s stories over the past few years, as well as the upmost honour of attending a handful of births 🙏🏻 to each who has shared their sacred stories and spaces with me, I am forever grateful.

In this season of my life, with two young children, being on call isn’t an option for my family. So I have taken my work online, mentoring mothers in birth and business, sharing the knowledge and skills I have gathered over more than a decade working in the holistic health realms.

Thank you for being here! I look forward to getting to know you more, too 🥰

29/01/2024

Hey homebirthers and likeminded mum friends! 😍👋🏻

We are so excited to kick the year off with our meet next week.

We, Abby & Bella, have some exciting things planned for our community over the coming year, and so look forward to connecting with you again.

We have a super special guest speaker joining us next week… stay tuned for an announcement post dropping soon! 📣

Until then, block out your calendar for next Monday 5 February at the Whakatāne Plunket Rooms on Victoria Ave, 10am - 12pm. Morning tea provided in a breastfeeding friendly, baby & toddler-safe environment ♥️

Let us know below, will you be joining us? 🙏🏻

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