Kapiti Birthing

2009 Coffee Mornings

kapitibirthing — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:33:54 +0000

The Kapiti Birthing coffee morning is now held on the third Monday of the month at 10am, at Saarsha House, 225 Te Moana Rd, Waikane.

Everyone is welcome… It’s a great opportunity to come and meet members of Kapiti Birthing, find out more about our classes and meet other expecting mums. Or after your birth, it’s a good excuse to get out of the house, show off your beautiful new babies, share your birth experiences and catch up with others who have attended Kapiti Birthing classes. It’s a child friendly environment and the delicious coffees, tea and cake which can be purchased are a great lubricant for informal discussion.

Happy New Year!

Lyn — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:29:32 +0000

Happy New Year everyone from all of us at Kapiti Birthing.

Our February class will be full and we look forward to meeting a new group of expectant parents, and we are also looking forward to news from our November class – there is a big group all due any day now, so the local midwives will be kept busy!

Long time no write

Lyn — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:10:42 +0000

Well, things have been slack around here! I haven’t updated for a long time. Life has been busy, and is busier still as we have our November class underway.

I will get onto the internet and look for some useful links and things.

And I will get nagging the others so that we get some more of the Kapiti Birthing girls posting on here. Vanessa has just welcomed her beautiful baby boy – so maybe I will be able to get her to write up her birth story.

THANK YOU!!

Lyn — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:52:23 +0000

Well, it’s been a while since I got on here to write anything. We gals at Kapiti Birthing have been flat tack getting organised for our Business of Being Born screening.

Well, the night was absolutley amazing!! It’s taken all week I think for us to come down off our high. The venue was beautiful (as ever), the food was great, mulled wine – fabulous!!, and the movie was amazing.

All in all a special night, and one for all of us at Kapiti Birthing to remember for a long long time.

Anyway, thanks so much to everyone that came, and all the wonderful businesses that supported us so that we could provide such amazing raffles and spot prizes – and thanks too to Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein!!

The Business of Being Born

kapitibirthing — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:27:11 +0000

June coffee morning

Lyn — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:38:36 +0000

The first Monday of June falls on Queen’s birthday – so we won’t be having a coffee morning this month. For those of you who are also in the Kapiti Homebirth Support group, there should be a coffee morning for you on thursday, so watch for an email with a venue.

We look forward to meeting lots of new Kapiti babies on the first Monday in July! See you then if not before.

Homebirth in Britain

Lyn — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:42:21 +0000

This is a TV series from the UK, that is available on youtube. It is three parts and gives the background to why this couple chose homebirth, shows the preparation and finally the birth of their baby. Enjoy!

Great Blog

Lyn — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:21:59 +0000

I was googling today (checking out gossip that Angelina Jolie is planning a homebirth – but that’s another post) and I found this beautiful blog . Lisa is a homebirth midwife in South Australia and her blog is really very thoughtfully and intelligently written. There’s lots of great information there for anyone with an interest in homebirth. I particularly liked her post about birth plans, given that we touch on this topic in our classes.

My birth plans have been quite similar to the one Lisa has written up in the post. Essentially my plans came down to ‘No to everything, unless I say it’s OK’.

Well, check it out, and we may get back to Angelina shortly!

Close to the mark?

Lyn — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:58:00 +0000

This was made in the 1970’s but is still pretty relevant today.

“You’re NOT qualified”

Homebirth video

Lyn — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:58:08 +0000