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Wellington Home Birth Association
 
Our History
 Services We Offer
 Membership
 Meeting Times and Dates
 Subscription Details
Antenatal Workshops
Association Contacts & Key Position Holders
Promotional Material Available For Sale
Consumer Representation on other groups
 Organisational Experience

 

Our History

The Wellington branch of the NZ Home Birth Association (established October 1978) was formed in April 1979.  It became the Wellington Home Birth Association (Inc) in June 1985.  Its main activities are providing information to women and their families about home birth and promoting home birth as a birth option.

As a voluntary organisation, we provide a newsletter, support groups, information evenings, soon to be re-established antenatal classes and other awareness and promotional activities. We are affiliated to about 20 other Home Birth associations and support groups throughout New Zealand, through Home Birth Aotearoa, and attend their hui and the biennial Home Birth conference.

 

Services We Offer

  • Free Home Birth Information pack
  • Answer phone service
  • Extensive library and equipment hire
  • Birth Pools Hireage  – 3 birth pools and califont available
  • Siblings kit for hire
  • Antenatal workshops (see information below)
  • Information evenings
  • Active promotion of Midwives Day
  • Conferences
  • Promotional shows and stalls
  • Brochures and resource material

 

Membership

  • 75 – 100 members (including midwives)
  • 25 non-financial members (ie other Home Birth Associations

 

Meeting Times and Dates

  • Every third Thursday of the month,  February to December,  7.45pm at alternating venues

 

Subscription Details

  • Annual Subscription $30 (includes 4 newsletters per year) 

Antenatal Workshops

The Wellington Home Birth Association is pleased to announce the re-establishment of their antenatal education programme.  The workshops are facilitated by Pauline Scott, with support from midwives and members of the Wellington Home Birth Association. Our workshops offer women and their partners/support people a comprehensive and interactive programme encompassing late pregnancy, labour, birth and parenting. We aim to promote, support, nurture and encourage natural, active birth, well-informed and self-empowered parents, and healthy, breastfed babies.

The focus is on normal, straightforward and positive active birth in a home setting but would be suitable for all women who are seeking information on natural, active birth regardless of their stage of pregnancy or where they are planning to give birth.

Workshop sessions are run on three consecutive Saturdays, and are relaxed and friendly and encourage a sharing environment which allows participants to get to know each other as they learn about birth and parenting.

Workshops cost $135.00.  Support continues after the workshop with monthly coffee mornings and association meetings, the quarterly newsletter and access to resources including the library, birth pool and OP rocking chair hire.

Pauline Scott is a trained childbirth educator, doula, conference speaker, writer and published author on pregnancy and childbirth. Pauline coined the term “optimal foetal positioning” when she wrote about the importance of a baby’s position prior to labour, and how the position can affect the way labour progresses.


 Workshop dates for 2009:     On hold until further notice

For all enquiries please phone (03) 476 6661 and leave a message, and we will call you with the latest details - thanks! 

 

Association Contacts & Key Position Holders:

  • GENERAL ENQUIRIES: 
    P O Box 9130, Wellington
    Phone (04) 476-6661  (answer phone - please leave a message)

 

  • SUBSCRIPTIONS:
    Jeannette Lazet
    Ph: (    04) 476 0169
    Email

 

  • TREASURER:
    Deryn Scott
    Ph: (04) 232-1971
    Email

 

  • NEWSLETTER:
    Jessica Hinkley
    Ph: (04) 477-6287
    Email

 

  • ANTENATAL COORDINATOR
         For all enquiries please phone (03) 476 6661 and leave a message, and we will call you with the latest details - thanks! 

 

 

Promotional Material Available For Sale
 (all prices exclude postage)

  • Video:  Seven Men Talk About Home Birth $20.00 (available soon)
  • Books:   Acupressure – Natural Pain Relief Techniques for Childbirth by Debra Betts $5
     
  • Bumper stickers:  Home Sweet Home Birth $2.00
     
  • T-shirts:  “Home Birth is…” $26

For orders or more information contact Jeannette (04) 476-0169 or Email
 

Consumer Representation on Other Groups

  • La Leche League
  • Midwifery Standards Review 
  • Regional NZCOM

Organisational Experience of Association

 

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