Kowhai Doula

03/02/2026

Ever wondered what a doula does? This taster workshop (in Japanese) answers FAQ about becoming a doula!

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26/08/2025

So gorgeously put 🥹

06/01/2025

When you’re a doula, all you see here is a labour tool 😉

18/05/2024

Absolute gold 💛😆💛

07/07/2023

This looks so great!

Come along tomorrow and have a look and try of the wide variety of ways to wear your baby. I'll be there along with the Babywearing Wellington.

01/07/2023

Have you heard of “Little Witch Hazel” by Phoebe Wahl? 😍
She’s an adorable wee midwife 💛

27/09/2022

This is very important news 💛

: The Government has made a change that’ll benefit an estimated 28,000 per year.

More than 70% of those giving birth in Aotearoa New Zealand may experience an injury during labour or birth. Previously, this was not covered by ACC.

I want to acknowledge Minister Carmel Sepuloni MP who worked closely with our Labour Wahine Caucus to make these changes. I also want to acknowledge all those that made submissions to the select committee. We did it!

Read more here: https://bit.ly/3dP4vgY

11/08/2022

A great way to try pricey parenting tools for cheap.

Did you know our rentals start from just $5 for 6 months??? And this covers the courier in both directions...so basically a free loan

04/08/2022

Celebrating world breastfeeding/chestfeeding week 2022 💛

Talking about chest feeding and SNS this

There are infinite ways to feed your baby skin to skin, with breastmilk, even if you aren't able to lactate yourself. One of the ways that people nourish their pēpi with human milk is by using donor milk that can be fed to their baby through a supply line, at their chest.

This means that pēpi gets all the benefits of latching to the ni**le, being skin to skin, and being fed breastmilk. Supplemental nursing systems (SNS) work by using a bottle or container to hold the donor milk, and a small thin flexible tube that sits in line with the ni**le so that as baby sucks on the ni**le, they draw donor milk from the bottle, through the tube, and into their mouth.

Mamas with low supply or who have undergone a mastectomy, as well as transgender dads who have had top surgery, are some of the many people who may use a SNS to feed their baby.

While most people use the term "breastfeeding," some people prefer the term "chest feeding," to describe how they feed their baby. While anatomically speaking both men and women have breast tissue, due to the gendered connotations of the word 'breast,' it's important to check with the person in your care what language is most affirming for them ❤️

01/08/2022

Agreed!

Best gardening tool in the shed 🌱✨

30/07/2022

The sleep lens feels huge, but we can look beyond it to find other wonderful qualities about our babies 💛

Babies get dysregulated, or “dialled up” for a bunch of reasons. This can be tiredness, but it can also be boredom, hunger, sensory overwhelm, needing connection… a whole lot of reasons. And we can miss those other needs if we see things only through the sleep lens.

The sleep lens means that we’re looking at the day and our baby with a filter that brings sleep and tiredness to front of mind. We see a yawn and think that our baby must be tired, so we hurry to get them to bed - only to have them not want to sleep, because in fact they were bored, not sleepy. We see our baby get grumpy when they’ve been awake a bit longer than usual and we panic that we’ve broken them with overtiredness - when in reality, we can usually calm them down and coregulate with them if we’re not totally stressed about what might happen if they don’t sleep.

The sleep lens is why I don’t give you timings you must stick to, or lists of tired cues to watch out for. Baby cues can mean lots of things - by being curious and looking at your baby with a sense of wonder, you’ll learn their unique patterns and signals. If you’re not sure if they’re tired or there might be something else going on, instead of tying yourself in knots trying to make sleep happen, first try getting them to calm down (or dial down) using two b**a tools you have at your disposal: feeds, and sensory nourishment.

A feed will often settle a dysregulated baby. Be flexible with feeds and lean into the fact that babies will sometimes fall asleep feeding - this just shows their sleep pressure is high and you’ve calmed them down enough to go to sleep.

Otherwise, sensory nourishment will usually do the job - a change of scene and activity, especially if this involves going outside, where there is an abundance of input for all your baby’s senses.

Taking off the sleep lens can be remarkably freeing for parents. If your days are stressful because of naps and timings and worries about overtiredness - try taking off the sleep lens and doing a bit of experimenting instead.