The Canterbury Westcoast region of NZCOM warmly welcome our new graduate midwives’.

The NZCOM Conference was held over the weekend and what a cracker of an event it was! We heard from a wonderful array of speakers including the incredible Dr Rachel Reed who joined us all…

What a stunning day of celebrations was had! The day kicked off with a vaccine clinic hosted by the Midwifery Resource Centre. Which sounds less than fun, but featured a wonderful array of treats, snacks…

At our regional AGM we gave thanks to our regional Chair Davina Geddes for all her hard work for our region over the last two years. We were privileged to have local Kaumātua to lead…

On the 2nd of August our regional breastfeeding representative Catherine Rietveld, with Kelly Dorgan launched a fantastic new resource to help support midwives and other health practitioners to support mothers and their whānau  prior to a…

Hi everyone, the current situation regarding global outbreak of COVID-19 is a rapidly changing one. The object of this news post is for community midwives to be able to access all of the regional updates…

Tēnā koutou katoa, Today the Board of the NZ College of Midwives kicked off celebrations for the International Year of the Midwife by hosting a parliamentary breakfast in The Great Hall at parliament.  This was…

January 2020 Memo to Canterbury Midwives Re: Milk Donor Funding In the community, in order to access FUNDED laboratory testing for Breast Milk Donors, the correct forms MUST be used. Only some testing for breast…

We were so pleased to congratulate these wonderful women as new graduates and welcome them to the midwifery workforce at the NZCOM Canterbury and West Coast meeting on Tuesday 11th of February. We wish you…

On Friday  afternoon the 8th of November 2019, a group of the original members of the College met at Burwood Hospital to celebrate the 30 year anniversary since the establishment of the New Zealand College…

Te Ha- Waitaha (Stop Smoking Canterbury) want to know how they can best support midwives in making referrals to their service. If you are a working midwife it would be really appreciated if you could…

A free event bringing together breastfeeding knowledge and wisdom from all over the country