Kapiti Birthing

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

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

International Midwives day

Lyn — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:14:38 +0000

Happy International Midwives day!!

Yesterday Tanya, Jodi, Toni and I attended a screening of The Business of Being Born hosted by the Wellington Homebirth Association. This was also an early celebration of Midwives day.

The movie was very powerful. Although we are very privileged in New Zealand to have so many midwives working with women, we need to protect and promote normal birth. Despite a system that is seen by many overseas to be an ideal, we still have a soaring c-section rate and many women are traumatised by highly medicalised births.

We hope to be able to host a screening of the movie later in the year so that everyone in Kapiti gets a chance to enjoy it!

Kapiti Birthing would like to thank all those wonderful wise midwives who a guardians of normal birth – especially those in our local community!

Feedback

kapitibirthing — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:40:53 +0000

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