A hand-picked directory of conscious birth workers across Aotearoa — midwives, doulas, birth keepers and other practitioners who support home birth, water birth and physiological birth. Everyone here honours your right to make your own informed choices, with warm, non-judgmental care. Filter by region or role to find someone near you.
Home, birthing-unit and hospital birth; partnership and informed choice
An LMC midwife who sees her work as a true partnership — walking alongside women through pregnancy, birth and the first six weeks. She supports informed choice and safe decision-making, caring for women who birth at home, in birthing units or in hospital.
Kerikeri, Bay of Islands
Home and hospital birth support, childbirth education, birth photography and videography
A Canadian-born honorary Kiwi and māma of four homeschooled children, Chelsea has supported families through birth since 2015 — across countries and settings. Her focus is education and body preparation: nurturing each person as an individual, presenting information from every angle, and following each family's lead.
Welcome Bay, Pāpāmoa, Mount Maunganui, Te Puke & Eastern BOP
Experienced homebirth, holistic and trauma-informed midwife. Empowering women to experience natural and physiological birth through deep connection and trust in the ancient wisdom of their womb, their body and their unborn baby.
A midwife of 14 years and māma to three home-birthed children. In Chloe's own words: “My role is to guide the birthing process — assisting the mother to let go, to open, to trust in the primordial intelligence of her womb and in her body's ability to birth her baby, safely and simply, with love into love.”
Pāpāmoa, Mount Maunganui & Tauranga
Your birth, your way
I am passionate about promoting natural birth and a healthy pregnancy. I see my role as an advocate — standing beside you and supporting your wishes, while helping to create a positive experience on your journey to motherhood. I protect birth as a normal, innate process, supported to unfold through the body's own design.
Waihi Beach, with clinics in Waihi & Katikati
Home and water birth; continuity of care and strong relationships
Des cares for women from Waihi Beach, with weekly clinics in Waihi and Katikati, attending births at home, Waihi Lifecare, Bethlehem Birthing Centre and Tauranga Hospital. She loves the New Zealand continuity-of-care model and the privilege of building close relationships with women and their whānau as they carry, birth and nurture their babies.
Palmerston North
Home and primary-unit birth; holistic, evidence-based partnership care
A homebirth midwife and mother of two (both born at home), Emilie weaves whānau knowledge together with midwifery for holistic, evidence-based care. She keeps her caseload small and supports families birthing at home or at the Levin primary unit, and speaks French as well as English.
Warkworth · supporting couples across Aotearoa
Empowering couples to have a calm, confident and positive birth, whatever the circumstances
A childbirth educator since 2007, māma of three and nana of two, Helen is the author of Positive Birth in NZ and host of The Positive Births NZ podcast. Through Positive Births she offers group courses in mindset, breathwork, relaxation and hypnobirthing — and as a trauma-informed hypnotherapist and Healing Birth practitioner, she also supports those healing from a difficult or traumatic birth.
Dunedin
Home and hospital birth; physiological birth with holistic, evidence-based care
A midwife in Dunedin since 2013, Jane supports home births and provides care in hospital settings too. She aims to keep mama and baby safe and well from a holistic perspective — sharing evidence-based information so each woman can make confident, supported decisions for herself and her whānau.
Whangārei & wider Northland
Traditional, physiological postpartum care
I offer mother-centred postpartum care that supports recovery and adjustment through the early weeks — ensuring māma receive rest, warmth, nourishment, bodywork and community support. A māma of two and an INNATE Postpartum Care Practitioner, I walk alongside māma and whānau, trusting each mother's own inner knowing as these physiological processes unfold.
Whangārei
Holistic postpartum education and care
A certified Newborn Mothers Postpartum Education and Care Professional, qualified early childhood teacher and māma of two, Jessamin provides independent, in-home postpartum care for māma in the first year after birth. Through her practice Motherkind she offers practical, emotional and mental support — protecting recovery, easing the maternal load, and building lasting confidence and resilience in motherhood.
Maungaturoto, Northland
Childbirth education for informed, empowered and positive birth
Childbirth educator behind Nurture, offering heartfelt guidance through pregnancy, birth and parenting. Josie supports families with the tools to make informed choices and walk away from birth feeling empowered and positive.
West, Central & North Shore Auckland
A birth where you feel safe and supported
Birth is unpredictable, but however you birth your baby, you have rights and options. I'm here to make sure you feel safe, respected and heard — a trained doula offering birth support, birth-trauma healing and breastfeeding help. Not my baby, not my body, not my birth: I'm here to help you write your story, not write it for you.
Tauranga to Paeroa
Home; natural, woman-led birth
Grounded in the belief that birth is a normal, healthy process, Karene offers holistic, gentle care in genuine partnership with each woman and whānau. Having home-birthed both of her own children, she supports families choosing to birth at home.
Whangārei
Home, hospital and water birth; holistic, natural, women-led care
Kia ora precious māmā — Maran offers holistically minded care through pregnancy, birth (home, hospital or water) and the postnatal weeks. Working in partnership and with deep respect for Te Tiriti o Waitangi, she is passionate about women's rights, informed consent, and protecting the natural rhythm of birth.
Eastern BOP
Home & water birth; specialising in breech, twins and supporting women who wish to birth outside hospital systems
Homebirth midwife with a deep respect for physiology, intuition, informed choice, and the kind of wisdom that doesn’t always fit neatly into hospital policy folders. Carries evidence in one hand and fierce woman-to-woman knowing in the other.
Central & South Taranaki (clinics in Hāwera & Stratford)
Home and water birth; natural, women-centred care
A caseloading midwife in Central and South Taranaki (and a working mother of eight), Michelle has a passion for natural childbirth, especially home and water births. Working in partnership with Catherine Balderstone, she offers women-centred care grounded in informed consent and choice, with clinics in Hāwera and Stratford.
Ōmokoroa · in person & online across Aotearoa
Mothermind, Motherartistry & Motheridentity — the being, the doing, the becoming
Through her Mother Mastery™ program, Naomi holds space for māma to feel empowered, confident, prepared and full of vision — so they can truly enjoy their birth, their baby and their relationships. A coach, trauma-informed Healing Birth practitioner and former midwife, she walks alongside each woman with deep care.
Travelling – nationwide
Holistic birth keeper for undisturbed home & free birth; nationwide, in-person & virtual
A former homebirth midwife of ten years turned holistic birth keeper, Nell travels across Aotearoa supporting families planning undisturbed, sovereign home births. She offers non-medical emotional, physical and spiritual care through pregnancy, birth and postpartum, drawing on deep physiological-birth experience (including twins and breech) alongside hypnobirthing, massage, Spinning Babies and more.
Tauranga
Home birth; physiological birth and informed, respected choice
Raigan studied midwifery a decade ago and lives on a small lifestyle block in the Bay with her three boys, sheep and chickens. She is passionate about promoting physiological birth, primarily supporting women who intend to birth at home, and is dedicated to helping you make informed choices that are respected and heard.
Rural and Urban Whangārei
Home and hospital birth; compassionate, gentle, woman-centred care
Kia ora, I'm Ruby — a registered midwife with ten years' experience across community and hospital settings, now based in Whangārei and māma to two daughters, both born at home. I provide compassionate, safe and gentle care to make your pregnancy and birth experience as positive as possible.
New Plymouth
Supporting families to have an empowered and positive birth experience, however that looks for them
Through her practice Caul to Bloom, Shannon offers birth and postpartum doula care — ensuring you feel safe, supported and cared for through pregnancy, birth and the postpartum weeks. She brings a calming, consistent presence (hands-on or hands-off as you need), riding the waves alongside you and your partner with warmth and trust.
Coastal Taranaki, Eltham & Stratford
Home birth, supporting women's choice and physiological birth
A midwife whose care centres on supporting women's choice, and who warmly encourages home birth as the place where birth has the best chance to unfold the way nature intended.
Rural and Urban Whangārei
Home birth; autonomy and free, informed choice
A homebirth midwife of thirteen years' experience in Aotearoa and overseas, Vicky cares for families across rural and urban Whangārei and is māma to four daughters, all born at home. She is passionate about autonomy and free, informed choice, and practises alongside other like-minded midwives in the area.
Greymouth
Home birth
Registered LMC midwife, with a passion for natural childbirth, including VBAC. After birth I offer gentle breastfeeding support as you and your baby find your rhythm.
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