For Midwives

• About climate change
• Alison Eddy, CE talks to Newstalk ZB about the latest from Te Whatu Ora
• Celebrating midwives
• Climate change
  • News and updates
    • RANZCOG published their Winter O & G Magazine with a focus on sustainability
• College roles and services
  • Advice for setting up practice
  • Back midwives campaign
  • Forms
  • Grants
    • Complex care postgraduate education funding
    • Postgraduate study grant opportunities
    • Rural midwifery student grant
    • Undergraduate student grants
  • Locum services
  • MERAS and MMPO
  • Pay negotiations
    • Member Communication – Budget 19 update
    • Member communication – Budget 2021
    • Member communication – Mediation update
    • Member communication – mediation work update
    • Member communication – Notification of the Primary Maternity Services Amendment Notice 2019
    • Member communication – Notification of the Primary Maternity Services Amendment Notice 2020
    • Member communication – Section 88 consultation
    • Member communication – Section 88 increases
  • Resolution Support
  • Safety check renewal
  • Self-employed midwives seeking practice partners
    • Homebirth midwife Hutt Valley
  • Situations vacant
    • Place an advert
  • Submissions
    • Submissions 2017
    • Submissions 2018
    • Submissions 2019
    • Submissions 2020
    • Submissions 2021
    • Submissions 2022
    • Submissions 2023
    • Submissions 2024
  • Submissions 2025
  • The NZ Nurses Memorial Fund
  • Unexpected outcome
• Contact Us
• COVID-19
  • Access to this season’s flu immunisation starts this week – message from the MOH
  • Childcare for essential workers update
  • Childcare in labour
  • Claiming information for midwives
  • COVID-19 Advice for midwives: 18 March 2020
  • COVID-19 Infection, prevention and control for midwives
  • COVID-19 Interim advice for midwives: 16 March 2020
  • COVID-19 Update: 19 March 2020
  • COVID-19 Update: 21 March 2020
  • COVID-19 Update: 22 March 2020
  • Covid-19 Vaccination, Pregnancy and Lactation
    • Boosters during pregnancy
    • Midwives who are due their booster but have COVID
  • COVID-19: Information for Community-based midwives
  • COVID-19: Information for hospital midwives
  • COVID-19: Information for Women
  • Guidance for frequency of contacts community midwifery care
  • Health professionals urgently needed to support Healthline’s COVID-19 response
  • Many lives saved by NZ pandemic response
  • Media Release: 23 March 2020
  • Member update 4 April 2020
  • Member updates – 17 August to 10 September 2021
  • Message for pregnant women from midwives
  • Message from Acting CE, Jacqui Anderson 27 March 2020
  • Message from the Pharmacy Council
  • Message to politicians on behalf of community midwives
  • Open letter to Jacinda Adhern
  • Update from the MOH regarding measures to address PPE availability
  • Video re: guidance for community midwifery care during COVID-19 pandemic
• Education
  • Continuing Midwifery Education
    • Birthing Across Cultures in Aotearoa
    • Dotting the I’s in a digital age: Record keeping for midwives
    • Midwifery Emergency Skills Refresher
    • Perineal Care: A midwifery perspective
    • Resilient midwifery: Trauma-informed and compassionate practice
    • Rural workshops
    • Safety and Sensitivity in Postnatal Care
    • The Practicalities of being a Mentor Midwife
    • Workshop Terms and Conditions
    • Workshops by region
  • Postgraduate education framework
  • Undergraduate midwifery education
  • Webinar: Immunisations during pregnancy: Influenza and Pertussis
  • Webinars
    • Webinar: AI in midwifery practice
    • Webinar: Mastitis – A clinical update
    • Webinar: Newborn screening for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
    • Webinar: Rheumatic heart disease in pregnancy
• FAQs
  • FAQs: General
  • FAQs: Membership
• Internship and Mentoring
  • Midwifery First Year of Practice (MFYP)
• Learn more
• Membership
  • Annual membership fees
  • Professional Insurance for College Members
  • Student membership
• Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 112
• Midwifery Standards Review
  • Midwifery Standards Review Process
  • Reflective Practice
• New Zealand Midwifery
  • How to become a midwife
  • Ngā Maia Partnership Agreement 2024
  • Regulation
  • Scope of Practice of the Midwife
• Photograph competition – win a conference registration, accommodation and travel package
• Professional Practice
  • A-Z of breastfeeding & infant feeding: Resources for midwives & their clients
  • Guidance for practice
  • Philosophy and Code of Ethics
  • Practice updates
    • Intermittent Auscultation video guides and guidance document
  • Standards of Practice
• Publications
  • Continuity of Care in Aotearoa
  • Journal
    • Editorial Board and Reviewers
    • Journal issues
      • Issue 47
      • Issue 48
      • Issue 49
      • Issue 50
      • Issue 51
      • Issue 52
      • Issue 53
      • Issue 54
      • Issue 55
      • Issue 56 (2020)
      • Issue 57 (2021)
      • Issue 58 (2022)
      • Issue 59 (2023)
      • Issue 60 (2024)
    • Letters to the editor
    • Search the Journal
    • Submit a manuscript
    • Write for the Journal
  • Midwife Aotearoa New Zealand
    • Enquiries and Advertising
    • Midwife Aotearoa From the President March 2022
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 100
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 101
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 102
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 103
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 104
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 105
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 106
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 107
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 108
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 109
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 110
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 111
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 113
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 114
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 115
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 116
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 117
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 118
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 97
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 98
    • Midwife Aotearoa NZ Issue 99
  • Midwifery Care Activities and Outcomes
• Research
  • Cochrane Midwifery Summaries
  • Joan Donley Midwifery Research Collaboration (JDMRC)
    • JDMRC role and function
    • Joan Donley Midwifery Research Forum
      • Joan Donley Forum Dinner
  • Midwifery Research Review
  • Research abstracts and news
  • Research Database
  • Research debates
• Sponsorship and exhibition opportunities
• Take action
• Webinar registration

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For Women

• About midwifery
  • Community midwives and midwifery services
  • Consensus Statements
  • Midwifery in New Zealand
  • Quality care
  • Resolution Support
  • What to look for in a midwife
  • Your Rights when receiving a Health or Disability Service
• Covid-19 vaccination in pregnancy
• Labour and birth
  • Birth Journeys
  • Induction of Labour
  • Management of pain in labour
• Ngā Ārai Hapū | Contraception
• Postnatal care
  • Adjusting to parenting
  • Baby – sleep, crying, output
  • Baby blues and postnatal depression
  • Birth trauma
  • Breastfeeding and returning to the paid workforce or study
  • Care of your perineum after birth
  • Constipation
  • FAQs Breastfeeding
  • Infant feeding
  • Infant massage
  • Pelvic floor exercises
  • Poos and wees – a short guide about what to expect
  • The First Few Weeks after Birth
  • Transfer to Well Child Tamariki Ora (WCTO) Services
• Pregnancy
  • Alcohol and pregnancy
  • Antenatal classes and support groups
  • Assessments, screening tests and scans during pregnancy
  • Common discomforts and how to manage
  • Growth and development in pregnancy
  • Immunisation and pregnancy
  • Medicines during pregnancy
  • Mental health in pregnancy
  • Miscarriage
  • Movement of baby, what to expect
  • Nausea and vomiting 
  • Sleeping on your side during pregnancy
  • Smoking, vaping and drugs
  • Staying well during pregnancy
  • Travelling during pregnancy
  • Your rights during pregnancy
• Preparing for baby
  • Birth planning
  • Car seats
  • Preparing for labour and birth
  • Where to birth your baby
• Useful links