The Ministry of Health, in partnership with sector experts, developed the Well Child / Tamariki Ora (WCTO) Quality Improvement Framework in 2013,...

This month we hear from John Robinson and his quest to support breastfeeding in a stressful work environment; celebrate Matariki; congratulate NZBA...

Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) is the leading cause of preventable mortality in New Zealand infants. Māori and Pacific infants have...

The New Zealand Breastfeeding Alliance (NZBA) coordinates the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) and collects annual infant feeding data at...

The Canterbury Breastfeeding Advocacy Service is a health promotion contract managed by Te Puawaitanga ki Ōtautahi Trust. The service has been...

The publication includes 60 recommendations to help shape a positive postnatal experience, including guidelines for breastfeeding counseling to aid...

Step Up for Breastfeeding: Educate and Support

Ngā Wānanga o Hine Kōpū is a kaupapa Māori birth and parenting programme reframing how to tautoko wāhine hapū and their whānau. Ataria Sharman met...

Guidance for Waitaha midwives in their support of Infant Feeding (Ūkaipotanga)

New Zealand Breastfeeding Alliance (NZBA), the NZ College of Midwives and the Paediatric Society have joined forces to remind New Zealanders that...

The Government commissioned a review of Well Child Tamariki Ora in late 2018 in response to concerns about equity of access, outcomes for tamariki and...

The 20 district health boards which run services for individual areas around the country will be replaced by one new body, Health NZ, which will...

Advice for breastfeeding mothers about the current COVID-19 vaccine and whether it is safe for themselves and their babies has been unveiled.

The...

Urgent action needed to address ongoing inequity in maternity sector

TAS spoke with programme providers directly, and has outlined the theory for improving breastfeeding rates, how the programme is implemented and how...

A roadmap to action: 2020 and beyond.

This publication provides Ministry of Health’s recommendations on reducing the risk of food-related choking in early learning services such as early...

New Zealand Aotearoa’s Guidance on Contraception is intended for use by health professionals who provide contraception and contraceptive advice to...

The Ministry of Health has updated the Eating and Activity Guidelines for New Zealand Adults to include advice for pregnant and breastfeeding women. ...

This Ministry of Health guidance provides the health sector with clear, concise and consistent evidence-based information on the identification,...

Implementation of the Ten Steps in facilities caring for populations of small, sick and preterm newborns can dramatically increase breastfeeding...

Whakamaua: Māori Health Action Plan 2020-2025 is the implementation plan for He Korowai Oranga, New Zealand’s Māori Health Strategy – it will help us...

Breastfeeding is key to the comprehensive development of children, their mothers and society.

This report provides updated information on the status of implementing the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and subsequent...

This publication presents data from the National Maternity Collection, and is the latest release in the Report on Maternity series. It provides annual...

Rapua Te Aronga-a-Hine is the first comprehensive literature review of the Māori midwifery workforce in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Te Hiringa Hauora has been asked to develop messages and work with others to reach out to soon-to-be and new parents to provide information and...

The UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative has received a number of queries regarding best practice for infant feeding on neonatal units during the...

This editorial summarises the threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the justification for the elimination strategy adopted by New Zealand, and some...

COVID-19 ADVICE FOR MĀORI

Nau mai, haere mai!

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Here you will find information and resources specifically for Māori about the COVID-19 pandemic....

COVID-19 Breastfeeding advice for pregnant women or those who have recently given birth.

Pregnant women do not appear to be more susceptible to the consequences of coronavirus than the general population and there is no evidence that the...

UNICEF provides practical information on COVID-19 and what parents should know.

Within the first few hours after birth, most healthy newborns will instinctively move to their mother’s breast and attach on their own. This video...

NZBA's achievements for year ending 30 June 2019 presented at our AGM, November 2019.

Dr Marewa Glover’s award-winning mini-series Tiakina Wāhine Hapū follows a whānau through pregnancy... and shows how much easier it would be to make...

This Current Programme of Action sets out the actions - policies, initiatives, programmes and plans - the Government will implement to help achieve...

What follows is a potted history of the New Zealand Breastfeeding Alliance as we celebrate the point NZBA agreed a contract with the Health Funding...

The Australian National Breastfeeding Strategy: 2019 and Beyond (the Strategy) provides an enduring policy framework for all Australian governments to...

Although intention to breastfeed in Western culture is high, many women stop breastfeeding before they are ready. From a physiological perspective,...

UNICEF UK has developed a series of resources covering a range of issues around supporting close and loving relationships between parents and babies.

The Ministry of Health is currently aware of interest from companies wishing to import, market and sell human

breast milk products in Australia and...

Last week clinical psychologist Dr Natalie Flynn was interviewed about the new release of her parenting book Smart Mothering.

In her book, she...

A growing body of evidence confirms that experiences during the first 1000 days, the period from conception until a child’s second birthday, have a...

The Office of the Children's Commissioner asked children and young people for their views on what wellbeing means to them. They heard from more than...

This guideline examines the evidence and makes recommendations and remarks on the implementation of some of the details of breastfeeding counselling,...

The aim of this research was to better understand Māori and Pasifika mother’s experiences of breastfeeding and to identify improvements that could be...

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All BFHI Coordinators are invited to join our next Zoom meeting!

PADA Seminars: providing education, training and networking to the perinatal workforce.