Rotorua Midwives

07/04/2022

Share around please.

09/04/2021

Current LMC'S in Rotorua

08/04/2021

Anyone looking for space to use?

25/12/2020

Merry Christmas to all. May the season bless you with family time, love and hugs.

01/04/2020

Sadly we do have a limit in place at Rotorua Hospital. We completely understand this may cause anxiety and stress for some people but we, your midwives, are here to support you in this challenging time
https://www.facebook.com/167652780323365/posts/885865695168733/

24/03/2020

A plea to all my friends who have contacts in the following industries:
Dental
Painting
Gib stopping
Building
Carpentry
Hair salons
Nails salons
Midwives are in desperate need of protective gear!
We need gloves, masks, eye protection, sanitizer and any gowns or disposable overalls.
Midwives have to keep working and seeing possible at risk families, they then go to another family and pregnant mums and we want to try and stop the spread! Please help us to help the families we care for.
Now that you're not working for the time being - if you have stocks would you be willing to sell them or donate to desperate on-call community Midwives???
If so please message.

24/12/2019

Merry Christmas to all the hapu mama in and around Rotorua. And their families. Enjoy the day and remember to keep food safe...clean, cook, cover, chill.
Your midwives ❤

06/09/2019

Pretty awesome stuff aye!

“When a baby suckles at its mother's breast, a vacuum is created. Within that vacuum, the infant's saliva is sucked back into the mother's ni**le, where receptors in her mammary gland read its signals. This "baby spit backwash," as she delightfully describes it, contains information about the baby's immune status. Everything scientists know about physiology indicates that baby spit backwash is one of the ways that breast milk adjusts its immunological composition. If the mammary gland receptors detect the presence of pathogens, they compel the mother's body to produce antibodies to fight it, and those antibodies travel through breast milk back into the baby's body, where they target the infection.”



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Eta: Lots of discussion around this theory. If you'd like further info see http://mammalssuck.blogspot.com/2016/01/breast-milk-baby-spit.html?m=1

"When babies suckle, ni**le diameter increases and there is a vacuum with negative pressure, delivering fluids from the infant oral cavity— a cocktail of milk and saliva— back into the ducts of the breast. For the record the technical term for “baby spit backwash” is “retrograde milk flow” (Geddes et al. 2008; Geddes 2009; Geddes et al. 2012; Ramsey et al. 2004)."

Geddes, Donna T., et al. "Tongue movement and intra-oral vacuum in breastfeeding infants." Early human development 84.7 (2008): 471-477.

Geddes, Donna T., et al. "Tongue movement and intra-oral vacuum of term infants during breastfeeding and feeding from an experimental teat that released milk under vacuum only." Early human development 88.6 (2012): 443-449.

Ramsay, D. T., Kent, J. C., Owens, R. A., & Hartmann, P. E. (2004). Ultrasound imaging of milk ejection in the breast of lactating women. Pediatrics, 113(2), 361-367.

28/07/2019

Get along