Empowering families to experience positive childbirth
We’re here to support you
Active Birth Taranaki is a group of parents who understand the need for positive birth education and support.
We are a not-for-profit community group built on the intention of sharing information and inspiration on the wide range of ways that birth can be approached.
Whether it be home-birth, hypno-birthing, water-birth, ecstatic-births, natural-hospital births or women-centred caesareans.
You can feel confident that we have lived the experiences and we’re here to share our stories and provide you with support.
Birth Stories
Active Birth Taranaki are passionate about sharing knowledge and providing support to parents-to-be!
Birth Options
Hypnobirthing
Hypnobirth: sometimes called meditative birth is a technique to calm the mind and focus on positive images or audio. It allows the body to progress through labour smoothly and more comfortably.
Water Birth
Waterbirth provides relief from the intensity of labour and allows a gentle transition for the baby. The warm water creates a sense of privacy and safety for mumma, helping her focus and enter the labour "zone."
Spinning Babies
Spinning babies sounds dramatic but is merely a way of regularly and gently adjusting babies position using slings (rebozo) and gravity to optimise babies descent through the pelvis.
Home Birth
Home birth offers an intimate and empowering option for couples to move and relax freely during labour, allowing a natural and personalised birthing experience.
Informed Consent
Informed consent in birth is a collaborative process with your midwife to tease apart birth situations that are not "sitting right" to find a solution that works for you, your midwife and your baby.
Doula
A doula is a professional person available to you and your partner during planning, labour and after birth. She works alongside the midwife offering emotional and physical birth support.
Find your tribe
Finding your “people” is integral to your parenting journey. Joining our Active Birth class will connect you with a group of like-minded people and help you build your village.
Testimonials
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“Active birth was a great find for my husband and me. We took antenatal classes too, but they only gave us information about hospital procedure, drugs and contractions, active birth taught us to take charge of creating this moment in time the way we wanted to remember it. I made a really strong connection and we are still close with our little boys growing up together, this has made the early years of parenting so much better.”
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“The course made me feel empowered in my choices and boosted my confidence despite being a first time mum”
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“It really helped solidify in my mind that I can do this the way I want to. My partner definitely found a lot of good info for fathers/birthing partners from it and is better informed on how he can help.”
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“The best thing is feeling like it’s not just me on this journey. You're aware you're not alone but it’s nice to be in a room with other women on a similar journey with similar experiences and enquiries.”
