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New Booking?

Welcome! Please confirm your first appointment with Lily & Lavender Birth, before filling out our intake form. Next, check out our selection of resources below as you journey into pregnancy and parenthood.

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Intake Form

Please make sure you have confirmed your first booking with Lily & Lavender Birth before filling this out. We will then need to collect some initial information.  Please fill this out so that we can get you the care you need during your pregnancy. (Allow 1 hour to fill this form)

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Antenatal Classes

Join us for Preparing for Pēpi, an antenatal class series designed to help you feel confident, prepared, and supported as you approach the birth of your baby. Over four interactive sessions, we’ll equip you with evidence-based techniques and practical knowledge to enhance your birthing experience.

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Shop Birth Pools & TENS Units

Enhance your birth experience with our hire options. Lily & Lavender Birth offers both a Birth Pool in a Box and the Elle TENS 2 Machine for affordable, short‑term hire. Book today and collect from our Rotorua office or have your items shipped to you.

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Folic Acid & Iodine

Healthed.govt.nz website has tons of great resources including this leaflet on the importance of Folic acid and Iodine early in your pregnancy.

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Plunket has a great resource on their website about nutrition during pregnancy. It will help keep you fit and your baby to develop and grow.

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Food Safety

This pdf is chocked full of advice on which foods are safe to eat and how to prepare them if they're not. It also gives advice on which foods to avoid altogether.

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Spinning Babies Techniques

The techniques at Spinning Babies® are those Gail Tully collected and recommends. She invented a couple, refined a few and linked many.

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Parental Leave Pay

Are you curious how Parental Leave and Payment Eligibility works in New Zealand.  This helpful document has plenty of answers.

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Consumer Rights

Consumers have rights and providers have duties. Check out this website which outlines clearly what you need to know.

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Maternity Services Consumer Council

Providing a wide range of information on topics and current issues relating to the maternity services in New Zealand. MSCC's Instagram &  Facebook

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Home Birth Aotearoa

Nurturing, supporting and advocating for home birth. Home Birth is positive, powerful, and safe. Home birth is a Human Right.

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Natural Parent Magazine

The Natural Parent Magazine has been publishing since May 2016.  Check out their website and Facebook for some excellent articles and ideas.

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Immunise during Pregnancy

This leaflet is for pregnant women and their families, explaining the immunisations recommended to protect mum and baby against whooping cough and influenza.

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Optional screening - your choice

All pregnant people are advised of screening to assess the chance of their baby having Down syndrome or another condition. This screening is optional.

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Tō Hapūtanga

A guide to pregnancy and childbirth in New Zealand. The Ministry of Health has put together this comprehensive booklet for Tō Hapūtanga.

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Safe and Healthy Eating

Healthy eating and being active during pregnancy are important for you and your baby. Download this helpful booklet to find out more.

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Alcohol and Pregnancy

What you might not know.  When Pregnant, every time you drink alcohol, your baby is drinking alcohol too. Download this helpful pamphlet to find out more.

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Kiri ki te kiri

NZBA - Baby Friendly Aotearoa New Zealand give some great tips and facts about the importance of Skin-to-Skin contact.  Download the leaflet below.

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Sleep on side when baby's inside

Research shows that going to sleep on your side from 28 weeks of pregnancy halves your risk of stillbirth compared with sleeping on your back.

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Breastfeeding and Working

If you are returning to work - or study - after having a baby, continuing to breastfeed is best for your baby, you and your employer - Click below to read more.

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Mama aroha breastfeeding app

Download app for your device, search Mama Aroha on the AppStore and Google Play check out more on the mama aroha website.

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