MAMA Maternity

22/10/2024

Get in quick!! and other top quality baby gear selling out fast! https://www.mamamaternity.co.nz/shop/

11/10/2024

THE MAMA SHOP IS HAVING A CLOSING DOWN SALE – BOBUX SHOES AND OUR SUN HATS ARE ALL AT LEAST HALF PRICE AND MOST OTHER ITEMS REDUCED BY UP TO 50 % WITH MORE GOING UP DAILY. DON’T MISS OUT – ALL STOCK MUST GO!!!

*** All the practitioners at MAMA Maternity will be continuing as normal with new locations to be announced soon***

04/10/2024

Delivering babies and world titles 🙏🏅🌊

On the clock, Chelsie Roberson is a midwife and lactation consultant at Taupō Hospital. Off the clock, she's a world champion wakeskater. Last weekend, she won the Women’s Open Wakeskate title at the Nautique WWA Wakeboard & Wake Park World Championships.

“I was absolutely stoked, and nothing prepares you for the moment you step on the podium,” she said.

“I love the feeling of being on the water – it’s just you and the board. And the friendships we’ve made through the sport are lifelong.”

03/10/2024

😝😝😝 Bless our midwives

30/08/2024

Looking for some birthing inspiration this weekend?
Look no further! A couple of generations have been inspired by the birthing and midwifery stories coming from"The Farm" community in Tennessee. These women have proven that the physiology of birth works when women are confident and well supported.
Auckland Home Birth Association is hosting a small movie fundraiser this coming Saturday. We'll be screening "Birth Story, Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives (2012)". Please consider coming along and supporting AHBA, waged and unwaged tickets available as well as pay-as-you-can 😀
Take advantage of this opportunity to see how a large group of women/couples reclaimed birth and contributed hugely to the positive herstory of birthing in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Advance ticket purchase is preferred but we will have door sales available (unless sold out prior). Please share.

Get your tickets for our cosy movie screening of 'Birth Story'! 🍿☕
🗓️ Saturday, 31st August
🕝 2:30pm
📍 Auckland Women's Centre
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/birth-story-ina-may-gaskin...
🎞️ Trailer: https://vimeo.com/47116003
🔵 Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1527692708131017
🌐 Website event: https://ahba.org.nz/event/birth-story-screening/

15/08/2024

Come and join our Team at MAMA Maternity 🙌🏽

We are looking for practitioners to share our beautiful space, we have a variety of days and rooms available. Depending on what you were wanting.

Centrally located in Sandringham with plenty of off-street parking. We are a multi-disciplinary Maternity Centre with a comfortable and welcoming environment that supports whānau and families during pregnancy and early parenting. Offering a range of services such as midwifery care and Acupuncture ☯️🤰🏻

Are you a willing and personable health practitioner in need of a space to call and run as your own?

MAMA would suit midwives, lactation consultants, naturopaths, osteopath, massage therapist, chiropractor, physio therapist, hypno-therapist or similar 🌸

The clinic rooms are warm and inviting with an opportunity to grow a yoga/pilates studio, or birthing classes in a large open space easily catering 12-15 people. Included in the rent is a sunny and spacious environment with central heating, comfy waiting room, fully equipped kitchen, website presence, cleaning and great cross reference referrals 🧘‍♀️

If you are looking for a space at a competitive price, come in and see us and have a chat or phone Linda or Tineke for more information.

Linda 027 474 4652
Tineke 021 701 113

17/10/2023

Did you know...?

"Babies are born with only one power; to elicit the emotion of tenderness and a caring response from their parents, especially and specifically from their mothers. Why? Because their survival depends on it.

All human babies are born prematurely relative to other mammals; perhaps by as much as 9-18 months. Many hypothesize that Mother Nature designed us this way to accommodate two things: the ability to walk upright and the luxury of a large adult brain. To enable upright motion, the pelvis needed to shrink significantly, reducing the diameter of the birth canal. For babies to be born safely, they needed to be born at an earlier stage of development meaning a newborn’s brain is a mere 25% of their adult size. In the first 3 years their brains triple in size reaching almost 80% of their eventual adult size.

Scientists have found animals born into hostile environments tend to have larger brains at birth to help them survive. Zebras, for example, need to be able to keep up with the herd just hours after birth; their relatively mature infant brain helps them respond appropriately when a lion appears.

Nature always have a survival strategy in place. So, what is the survival strategy for human babies born with such tiny brains? The answer is simple - it's us, their parents.

Babies are biologically designed to form secure attachments for good reason. John Bowlby, Founder of Attachment Theory, hypothesized healthy attachment is crucial to promote emotional regulation and optimal brain development.

The brain doesn’t fully mature until our mid-late 20’s. So, what does this mean for us as parents? It means we need to be responsive, patient, compassionate and flexible with our kids. The way we choose to communicate with our children - positive or negative - affects the way their brains grow. This realization brings intense responsibility, which is simultaneously terrifying and exciting. If we can give our kids the experiences they need we’ll quite literally be designing a brain that will help ensure their future happiness & success."

This is an excerpt from 's eBook, The Lost Art of Natural Parenting.
📷: 💛

15/10/2023

Baby Loss Awareness Week Day 7

This special week culminates tonight with The Global Wave of Light, an international celebration that takes place on the 15th October, International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. Today bereaved parents, whānau and friends around the world light a candle at 7:00pm in memory of their precious baby or babies. We begin the wave of light in Aotearoa, setting off a continuous wave of light and aroha that wraps around the world.

We will post tonight so we can all share our candles 🧡💜

14/10/2023

The weekend chuckle!

13/08/2023

When you become a mama you lose a little of who you were - it's OK to grieve and feel sad for those parts of your life and identity that you have said goodbye to, but it is good to know that mothering comes with the potential to find so much more about who you are and even to find new depths and strengths in yourself.

20/06/2023

Several midwives@MAMA love to support women/whanau choosing to birth at Nga Hau Primary Birthing Unit in Mangere. If you gave birth in this comfortable and welcoming birthing unit, please send a letter of support.

✨ ATTENTION PLEASE!✨

🌿 We have been open in the ❤️ of Mangere for the past 4 years because of the HUGE generosity of the Wright Foundation with ZERO public funding.

🌿 This beautiful centre has served the whanau, aiga & families of over 860+ babies that have been born here 💜

🌿 Can we ask all those whom we were honoured to care for at Nga Hau Mangere Birthing Centre, to please show your support by:
✨Sending us a post or
✨Email Mangere@birthingcentre.co.nz
✨Share this post on your page
And tell the public & Te Whatu Ora about your experience!
(We love pics of you & your babies, and will assume you consent to them being displayed publicly ☺️)

🌿 We thank you for your support 👍🏽

Nga mihi ~ Fa'afetai lava ~ Malo 'Aupito
Fakaaue lahi ~ Vinaka ~ Meitaki Maata
Xie Xie ~ Namaste ~ Shukran 🙏🏽

06/06/2023

The Liggins Institute is conducting research into enablers and barriers to establishing breastfeeding preterm babies. If you have given birth o a preterm baby in the past 2 years. you may like to share your experience with these researchers.

Are you a mother/māmā or caregiver of a preterm baby born in the last 2 years? Take our survey to help us understand more about your experience of feeding your preterm baby/pēpi and if anything made it easier or harder. https://auckland.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3jXQH2sV0hLEfB4

He whaea koe, he kaitiaki rānei i tētahi pēpi i whānau pī mai i ngā tau e 2 kua hipa? Me whakaoti i tā mātou rangahau kia mārama ake ai mātou ki ō āhuatanga o te whāngai i tō pēpi whānau pī, ā, mēnā i māmā ake, i uaua ake rānei nā tētahi āhuatanga.

This study was approved by the Auckland Health Research Ethics Committee on 03/05/2023 for three years. Reference number: AH25952.

I whakaaetia tēnei rangahau e te Auckland Health Research Ethics Committee i te 03/05/2023 mō te toru tau. Tau tohutoro AH25952.