Home Birth Midwives Christchurch
We are a midwifery practice,
working with women and their families in the Christchurch region who are planning to birth at home.
We provide care to meet each family’s individual needs.
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Juliet
Home Birth Midwife
Juliet is currently unavailable please enquire with the practice.
Juliet has 25 years experience as a midwife with 23 of those supporting women to birth at home in Christchurch.
“The thing that really still gets me about families having their baby at home is that this is their experience and they make it what ever they want it to be. Home birth is about returning this incredibly precious and intimate time back to where it belongs, the family.”
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Jacqui
Home Birth Midwife
“After 20 years as a home birth midwife, it is still wonderful to know that for the majority of women, birth is normal and that if home feels a safe place to birth, then for them and their baby it is the best place to be.”
Violet
Home Birth Midwife
“For me, the key difference for women birthing at home is that they are able to create a calm and supportive environment, where they are central to the decision making process.”
Gwen
Home Birth Midwife
“for me home birth just feels right. I am in awe of the power of the woman birthing her baby at home surrounded by her loving family. This reinforces the importance of that calm, supportive environment which enables the woman to bring her baby into the world on her own terms”
We have a strongly aligned philosophy
based on the belief that birthing at home increases the potential for a normal birth.
We consider that birth is a social event,
not medical, and that birth belongs within a family context, whatever constitutes family for the individuals involved. Birthing at home keeps the woman and her family at the centre of care.
Labour and birth can proceed at the woman’s pace
without unnecessary intervention and arbitrary timeframes or institutional needs overriding her needs. We are constantly learning as women find their way through such a challenging time. Being at home enables us to recognise that no two labours are comparable and that home birth supports the importance of the emotional and spiritual aspects of labour as much as the physical aspects.
Our philosophical beliefs encompass the following:
- continuity of midwifery care.
- that planning to birth at home maximises the potential for normal birth
- supporting birth as a family-centered event not a medical process
- information sharing to enable informed decision making
As home birth midwives, we consider it a privilege to be invited into this process as a welcome guest and to watch the magic that is labour and birth unfold.