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The Canterbury Homebirth Association is a voluntary organisation that promotes and supports home birth as an alternative to hospital birth.

28/10/2026

WHAT DOES HOME BIRTH LOOK LIKE?
There is no one way to birth at home.
For one whānau, it might mean a birth pool in the living room. For another, labouring in the bedroom, walking through the garden, listening to music or simply being surrounded by familiar faces.
It might be quiet.
It might be loud.
It might involve laughter, tears, movement, stillness .... or all of it.

Home birth doesn’t have one look.

Every wāhine. Every pēpi. Every whānau. Every birth story is unique.

This Home birth Awareness Week, we’re celebrating the many different ways home birth can look across Aotearoa.

What would make your birth space feel like home?

27/10/2026

Knowing your options means hearing stories, following your instincts and knowing what the evidence says.
Research from Aotearoa has found that for low risk wāhine, planned place of birth is associated with differences in the amount of intervention experienced during labour and birth.
Women planning to birth at home or in primary units had fewer interventions than women planning birth in secondary or tertiary settings.
Your place of birth is one of the choices you can explore with your LMC.

Ask questions. Look at the evidence. Talk through your individual circumstances.

Because informed choice starts with knowing what your options are.

Davis D, et al.
Planned place of birth in New Zealand: does it affect mode of birth and intervention rates?
BIRTH. 2011;38(2):111–119.

26/10/2026

HOME BIRTH AWARENESS WEEK | BIRTH PLACE MATTERS
Where we give birth matters.
The place we birth can influence the people around us, the environment we are in,
the care we receive and how supported we feel
throughout the experience.
For some wāhine and whānau, home is the place that feels right.
Home birth Awareness Week is an opportunity to talk about birth place, understand the options available to you, ask questions and hear from whānau who have chosen to birth at home.
There is no one right place to birth for everyone.
What matters is having access to information and support to make decisions that are right for you and your whānau.
What mattered most to you when choosing where to birth?

21/10/2026

A local mum has reached out asking us to post on her behalf. She's looking for postpartum doula recommendations. If you've used a postpartum doula you loved, drop a comment recommending them!

17/10/2026

Midwives who get the whole family involved 🥰💙🧡

14/10/2026

Home Birth Canterbury is excited to present the screening of a beautiful documentary "Allowed to Birth" on birth, highlighting the work of renowned global midwife (a vaginal triplet birth, multiples & breech expert) Kristine Lauria.

We will be hosting a very small screening of this documentary on Thursday 26 November at 7:30pm. Location TBA but will be a home in either Rolleston or Lincoln.
Cost (goes straight to the film maker) $13

This is kindly subsidised by Home Birth Aotearoa

Please message us if you would like a ticket to this event. We will be keeping this small and cosy! 😀

05/10/2026

Lovely catch up last night featuring talking pelvic floors & birth movement!

Always so great meeting new faces and seeing old friends again 💕

If you're on the fence about attending a community circle, we only have one more left in the year so come join us in November! Details coming soon 😉

Address

Christchurch
Dorset

Website

http://www.canterburyhomebirth.org.nz/

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