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Your Title Goes HereYour child’s birth is the gateway through which you, your child and its mother must journey in order to become a family or add to your family. The quality of the birth experience influences the quality of your relationship with your family. It can...

The process of ‘becoming’ a father has not been thoroughly explored. Right now, men ‘become’ a father after the birth or adoption of their child. However, after the birth or adoption you ‘are’ a father. Actually men move through ‘becoming’ into ‘being’ a father during...

In our modern societies you will experience one of three types of birth: Labour and a vaginal delivery … whether medical or natural Labor and a surgical birth A non-laboring surgical delivery From that list, it’s really easy for men to think something like this....

Pregnancy changes everything. Once a woman falls pregnant she comes under the care of a midwife and sometimes a specialist and draws attention from even strangers. The focus is SO on the woman and child that you very well might already feel a bit uncertain about your...

During your midwife’s visits you have been asked to make Birth Plans. Perhaps you and your baby’s mother had talked about what you want for the birth of your baby long before you fell pregnant. Here’s your wake up call. You cannot plan a birth. You cannot choose a...

You’re in a bind here torn between two very opposing viewpoints of childbirth. Where should you stand? On the one hand NZ midwives are strong proponents of ‘natural’ birth, believe childbirth is inherently safe and that a natural birth is better than a medical one. If...

Take a deep breath then consider your life: work, sports, hobbies, technical expertise even driving a car or knowing how to wash the dishes. All of these require learned skills and then using them. Think a bit back to when you were 7 or 8 years old and consider how...

New Zealand has a very unique maternity service that is Midwifery led. You and your partner will have one (or team) of midwives who will be with you throughout the pregnancy, during birth and for 6 weeks afterwards. Nowhere else does a Government pay for that...

The greatest fear that men have about childbirth is the pain. Pain at any other time of life is connected to: illness, injury and possibly death. It’s very difficult for many people to fully understand that pain in childbirth is unique and must be treated...