Authored

We exist to walk the journey with you.

Whether it’s our holistic group antenatal education course, 1:1 coaching, our curated store of products for every trimester, or most importantly connecting you to a village of parents.

01/08/2025

breastfeeding week 🤍
This was taken just hours after Otto was born — all 9 pounds 6 of him. I was still catching my breath when his big sister climbed up beside us and latched too. His first feed became a tandem one — unplanned, instinctive, and a little bit magic.

Freshly postpartum, feeding two babies, body buzzing from birth — I was wrecked, raw, and running on hormones… but also? Completely invincible.

I know Breastfeeding Week can stir up a lot — pride, grief, joy, frustration, love. However you fed or are feeding your baby, I hope you know there’s no one right way. What matters most is that you and your baby are held, nourished, and supported — however that looks.

12/06/2025

I’ve been feeling the itch to get back into teaching — and this felt like the right place to start.

Birth Power Hour is a free one-hour online session to help you feel more prepared, more confident, and more in control heading into birth.

Whether you’re planning a physiological birth, open to pain relief, or not sure yet — this session will give you tools and mindset shifts that actually make a difference.

It’s the kind of prep I wish everyone had.

📆 18/06/25 8pm-9pm NZT
🖥️ Zoom — link in bio to register

26/02/2025

✨ FREE HOSPITAL BAG CHECKLIST✨
Packing for birth? Don’t overthink it - I’ve made a midwife + mama approved checklist with all the must-haves (and none of the fluff).
Have I missed anything? Drop your #1 hospital bag essential in the comments ⬇️

29/11/2024

INTRODUCING: The Labour & Birth Masterclass.
This is a bespoke 1 day workshop really zooming in on the nitty gritty practical things you need to know to walk into your birth confident.
It is such amazing value with:
- 6 hour session led by registered midwife (small group setting to ensure you get the support you need with learning)
- catered lunch for mama and support person
- your birth weapon
- &honey store voucher
- online library of resources + private Facebook group
+ more

These will be our only in-person offerings and will only be held a handful of times per year so places will be in hot demand!

10/09/2024

👀 somethings coming 👀
In the final stages of something I’ve been working on for YEARS. Very excited and nervous to get this out to the world.
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01/11/2023

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12/10/2023

👊🏻THE KEY TO HAVING THE BEST DAMN EPIDURAL BIRTH 👊🏻
Often we hear all the doom and gloom when it comes to epidurals.
Yes they absolutely come with a raft of negative side effects like
👎🏻Slowing down labour
👎🏻Dropping mums bp and sometimes baby’s heart rate
👎🏻Increase in need for forceps + suction cup births
However, if we use the epidural at the right place and time we can minimise these side effects and maximise the positives! Yes it does have positives….It can
👍🏻Allow mama to sleep especially in labour that has gone on for days
👍🏻Allow baby to turn and get into a good position for birth
👍🏻Lower mum’s BP in cases where it is high or Pre-eclampsia.
An epidural is the highest form of pain relief medicine can offer you for labour - it is the BIGGEST gun. It is important we respect it for what it is and therefore only pull it out when we have exhausted all other options and when the need for it means the positives will outweigh any potential negatives or side effects.

24/08/2023

INTRODUCING OUR NEW FACILITATOR - KIRSTY 🥰
My name is Kirsty and I am so excited to be part of the team at Authored!

I was inspired to become a midwife after my youngest son was born at home. After birthing 4 children I had seen and experienced the most incredible care at the hands of midwives and felt such a strong pull to follow in their footsteps. Connecting with families in the community and being invited into their worlds during such a vulnerable and precious time is such an incredible gift. Sadly In 2022 after practicing as a homebirth midwife I was unexpectedly diagnosed with cervical cancer and abruptly had to stop my work as an LMC midwife.

After battling with cancer I found myself missing working in the birth world but unable to return to the demanding nature of community midwifery and by chance found myself teaching antenatal education and absolutely loving it! The ability to connect with families during their pregnancies offering support, information and community brings me so much joy and I am so excited to be continuing that pathway with Authored. I currently also work casually at Christchurch Women's on birthing suite as a hospital midwife. On the rare occasions that I have free time outside of busy family life I enjoy reading, painting and I have a pretty extreme addiction to stationery!

17/07/2023

Oh man I’m so sick of the old “at the end of the day you got a healthy baby so that’s all that matters right”
It’s birth trauma awareness week and I want you to know, I see you, your feelings and experiences are valid.
Even if you didn’t have it as bad as someone else, you had a “normal” birth, you felt some aspects of your birth were positive, or you didn’t feel it was traumatic at the time…. No one can define or characterise birth trauma but you.
There is so much more to the childbirth continuum then just a healthy baby.
1 in 3 experience birth trauma. You are not alone 🧡🤍

04/07/2023

"On Tuesday 28.02.2023 at 8pm I went into Christchurch Women’s to be induced. I kept the mindset that decisions were mine, setting up the room with my candles, essential oil diffuser, hypnobirthing breathing tracks - I was so ready. They hooked me up to the monitor and started me on my first of many doses of misoprostol from 10pm."

15/06/2023

🌸TENS MACHINE 🌸
- stands for Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation
- based on the gateway pain theory whereby our brain can only process one message at a time, so by sending the brain lots of other stimuli, the brains perception of the pain is decreased
- battery operated and portable! Can go with you anywhere, in the car etc (round mitre 10 if you’re anything like me 😝)
- one of the safest and most effective non pharmacological pain relief available

HIRE NOW! We have just added another tens unit to our set and we offer shipping NZ wide

30/05/2023

POV: your decision to invest in antenatal education comes in clutch 🤗

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