Giving birth can be an exciting but anxious time. Please talk with your LMC about your choices for labour and birth. We also run free and regular antenatal classes which can provide you with extra information.

• Your Labour - what you need to know (PDF, 874.9 KB)
• Your labour - What you need to know (Chinese).pdf.pdf.pdf.pdf.pdf.pdf (PDF, 2.4 MB)
• Strategies for managing labour (PDF, 610.8 KB)
• Labour and birth in water (PDF, 562.7 KB)
• Epidural in Labour (PDF, 233.1 KB)
• Perineal Massage (PDF, 98.9 KB)
• Group B Streptococcus (GBS) infection (PDF, 956.9 KB)
• Healing after a Third or Fourth Degree Tear (PDF, 977.3 KB)
• Your baby’s whenua (placenta) (PDF, 490.1 KB)