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Finding Support

Health Services/General Health

PlunketLine - 0800 933 922

PlunketLine also offers free, specialist breastfeeding support through video-conferencing. Once you’ve booked an appointment, PlunketLine will send you a link (and instructions) for how to download Zoom, the secure and reliable video chat app used.  The consultation is carried out in a private environment, and you’re more than welcome to have a support person with you.  Appointments are available during the day and in the evening, and on weekends.

HealthLine - 0800 611 116

Kids Health

Ministry of Health

Well Child Tamariki Ora Programme

 

Breastfeeding Support

Mama Aroha App

BreastFedNZ App

BreastfeedingNZ

Find Your Breastfeeding Support (Women's Health Action)

Breastfeeding support in Te Awa Kairangi - Hutt Valley

Breastfeeding friendly venues in Southland and Otago (BURP App)

La Leche League New Zealand

Pacific Language Resources (LLLNZ)

New Zealand Lactation Consultants Association - 0800 452 282

Initiating breastfeeding - videos from the First Droplet project

Kelly Mom

FeedSafeApp: alcohol and breastfeeding guide

 

Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplaces/Returning to Work

Women's Health Action - Breastfeeding Friendly Workplaces

Ministry of Health - Breastfeeding and returning to work

 

Parenting Support

Brainwave Trust

Raising Children NZ

Disabled Parenting Project

 

Safe Sleep

Change for Our Children

 

Bereavement

Wheturangitia - Return to the stars information for family and whānau who have experienced the death of a baby or child.