Your Choice Midwives

02/12/2025

Great tips to manage the challenge of labour.

02/12/2025

🍼 Side-Lying Bottle Feeding: The Most Supportive Position You’re Not Using - YET!

If your baby struggles with coordination, gets overwhelmed by the flow, or you're just trying to mimic optimal feeding more closely, sidelying feeds can be a game changer!

• Supports the entire body for postural stability
• Limits downward pressure on the tongue and jaw that happens in upright feeds
• Helps baby coordinate suck–swallow–breathe safely
• Protects against overfeeding by allowing baby to pause, slow down, or stop

✅ Ideal pace: about 5 minutes per ounce
✅ Cue-based feeding: lets baby lead instead of pushing the bottle

Babies aren’t robots, their needs shift from day to day. This position gives them the stability and control to communicate those needs clearly (and safely).

📌 Save this for your next bottle feed

15/10/2025

Who says because your are in a tertiary setting your space can't be a vibe!
I use lights and a diffuser at most of my births (if there is time lol).
We have to be reminded at times that we are working in their birth space, they are not birthing in our work place

03/09/2025

Any of our wonderful followers still breastfeeding and keen to donate?

URGENT ! Calling for donors. Our stocks are very low and the need just keeps on increasing.
Do you know a breast feeding mother who would be keen to donate some milk to help other babies? If so call us on 03 375 6281 ext 9020 and leave us a message. One of our volunteers will call back

25/08/2025

1 hr 05 min video • Instant access • Lifetime replay What Every New Parent Needs to Know Congratulations. You’ve just created the most complex thing in the known universe: a human brain. Now what? In this powerful, practical seminar, world-renowned neuroscience educator Nathan Wallis gives new...

13/06/2025

11/06/2025

Is tongue-tie overdiagnosed? Explore the latest research and why many feeding issues aren’t always solved by surgery.

30/04/2025

29/04/2025

💞 Have you always wanted to be Breastfeeding Peer Counsellor? 💞
It's not too late to sign up! This will be our last public course for 2025 so we aren't encouraging waiting..

Register your interest here:

https://tepuawaitanga.maori.nz/A-Z%20Programmes%20&%20Services/mama-2-mama-breastfeeding-peer-counsellor-training/

16/04/2025

BFHI has been part of Aotearoa for 25 years!

Thank-you to everyone for protecting, supporting and promoting breastfeeding.

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