Te Hauora o Hine Te Iwaiwa
Te Hauora o Hine Te Iwaiwa/Keeping Healthy in Pregnancy and Gestational Diabetes Resource
In response to the growing diagnosis of gestational diabetes in Māori women, this informative resource has been developed by Nga Maia with support from the Minisrty of Health specifically for hapu Māori women and their whanau. The format of the pamphlet was decided after consultation with Maori Midwives and Maori Women who had experienced gestational Diabetes in their pregnancy from throughout the motu. The Women clearly identified the essential information they felt would have been most beneficial for them in order to understand this condition and the ways that they could support their own optimum health in pregnancy with this diagnosis.
This beautiful Resource is available for purchase at $2.00 per resource with a 5% discount available for orders over 250 items charged.
For presentation requests or orders please click on this link to an enquiry form.
Te Hauora Te Hine Te Iwaiwa / Keeping Healthy in Pregnancy and gestational Diabetes pamphlet-Side One
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Te Hauora Te Hine Te Iwaiwa / Keeping Healthy in Pregnancy and gestational Diabetes pamphlet-Side One
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Wahakura - safe bed-sharing
Announced at the Mokopuna Ora Hui held at Orakei Marae the Wahakura is a kaupapa initiated by Dr David Tipene-Leach. This is an initiative Nga Maia is working towards supporting throughout the Motu/country alongside our whanau, Midwives, Maori SIDS, Maori community providers and weavers.
"A wahakura is a woven flax bassinet for infants up to 5-6 months of age. This return to a traditional Maori way of sleeping babies creates a safe sleeping space for your baby and protects baby from SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) and prevents accidental suffocation. It also promotes breast-feeding and bonding with baby" for more information.
If you, or your organization would like to support this Kaupapa in any way including donations of koha or skills then please click on this link to an enquiry form.
Ipu Whenua
Ipu Whenua was an idea first promoted in modern times by Dr Paparangi Reid. Nga Maia now encourages whänau to make them to hold the whenua (afterbirth) until it is buried. The Ipu Whenua is ultimately made with a resource that is bio-friendly to Papa and that will easily break down once buried.
Ipu Whenua has become an alternative to plastic bags in the fridge or freezer and helps keep alive the tradition of returning the whenua to Papatüänuku thus giving the pepi an eternal link to the earth.
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