Your midwife will provide pregnancy care including regular checkups, organising any tests as required and planning your labour plan. Pregnancy care is free for New Zealand citizens and permanent residents. For more information view the New Zealand Government website.

Your midwife will support and care for you during your labour and will help deliver your baby / pēpi. -Homebirth -Kaitaia Maternity Unit -Whangārei Hospital (I will transfer down with you in labour and hand over care to core staff as it is out of my area)

Your stay at a birthing centre or hospital after giving birth will usually be up to 2 days, or 2-5 days if you have had a caesarean. During this time you will have regular visits from your midwife and be supported to care and feed your baby. You are able to stay in Kaitaia Maternity for several days (depending on availability) with your support person. You will have 24/7 postnatal care provided to you and your baby by a registered midwife. Highly recommend this support for first time mama. If you are needing/choosing to birth in Whangārei, you will be able to stay down there until you and baby are cleared to come back to primary care in Kaitaia Maternity or home. You and your baby will be cared for by core staff until you come back to the Far North.

Your midwife will provide weekly home visits from after you give birth to when your baby / pēpi is 4-6 weeks old. Your midwife will provide support, assist with breastfeeding and monitor your baby’s growth and development.

Your midwife will help connect you with a Well Child/Tamariki Ora service once your baby / pēpi is 6 weeks old. Well Child/Tamariki Ora services provide free health checks for your tamariki from 6 weeks old to 5 years. It is also important to register your baby with a local GP for ongoing medical care and to organise immunisations. All babies born in New Zealand are registered with the National Immunisation Register.