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Childcare

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Barnados
Barnardos provide a range of care, education and support services developed specifically for New Zealand children and their families.
Childcare Online
If you are a childcare provider - ChildcareOnline offers you an easy and affordable way to list your centre/services online. Parents can evaluate your information online, then visit your centre to see it for themselves.
KidStart
Barnados home-based care & learning
KiwiOz Nannies
Specialists in placing nannies and babysitters in NZ and the UK.
Nanny Support Service
NZ Nanny Support Service. We can help you find and employ your nanny or you can appoint your own.
NZ Childcare Association
Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa/NZ Childcare Association is an incorporated society representing around 1000 members who work throughout Aotearoa/NZ in the early childhood education and care sector. We provide a wide range of services to our members and to the wider sector.
Pepsicles NZ Ltd
Pepsicles offers postnatal home help for the first few weeks after baby is born. Mum deserves to be looked after!
Porse NZ
In-Home Childcare. PORSE Programmes (home-based services and training) aim to nurture, foster and promote the home as an exciting and valuable learning environment for all.
Rockmybaby Babysitting Agency
Online babysitting Agency, also catering for Wedding, event care, birthday party helpers and equipment hire in Hawkes Bay only
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Education

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Baby Talk
Baby Sign Language for Hearing Babies
Kindergarten
Waikato Kindergarten Association operates as a Charitable Trust. It currently has 28 kindergartens teaching 2,600 children throughout the Waikato region.
Plan B for Baby
A prenatal and early parenting consultancy helping people who are expecting, or who have just had a baby, to adjust to their new world of parenting and family
Play Centre
Playcentre philosophy is based on the ideas of child-initiated play and parents as first educators. Playcentre offers free Parent Education (including an NZQA recognised programme) offered to all participating parents. Through training, you learn about how children develop, good ideas to use with children at Playcentre and at home, Playcentre philosophy, and communication skills.
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Fathers

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Brand New Dad
Online resource for new and expectant fathers
Dad's The Word
Mission Statement: To help give new dads the skills to participate in the care of their newborn baby, so that their active participation will have a positive long term effect on the outcome of their infant.
Father and Child
Father & Child Support
Shore Fathers
Shore Fathers is a voluntary, community based group dedicated to promoting the role of the Father in the family, whatever the family unit.
Steve Biddulph
Author of Raising Boys. Covers both the social forces and the biological and hormonal forces that make a boy what he is, and how to use these to help boys be safe, caring, energetic, and in love with life.
Teen Dads
Support for Teen Dads
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Government

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ECD - Parenting
Early Childhood Development
Government
Government Services
HDC
Health & Disability Commissioner
Infoline
Parental Leave
IRD
IRD/Family Assistance Information
MOH
Maternity Consumer Enquiries
NZ Parenting Lobby Group
A lobby group by parents for parents. Our vision says it all. We want New Zealand to have the world's best parenting environment and will work with any political party to create policies that will make parenting successful and valued. New members most welcome.
TPK
Government's principal adviser on M?Ѭ�ori issues
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Guides/Resources

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Caesarean Birth
Caesarean Birth
Consumer
Consumer Magazine
Maternity
Maternity Services Consumer Council
Maternity Wise
A guide to effective care in pregnancy & birth
Parent 2 Parent
Parent to Parent is a support and information network for parents of children with special needs.
Parents Centre
Parents Centres are located in 56 areas in New Zealand and offer four core services to members: childbirth education,parent support groups, parent education,
advocacy/lobbying for parenting, birthing and families
Pen Points
A safe place for children to visit, have fun, and find information that is relevant to them. Designed for and by NZ children.Win $250 in Book Vouchers for your school.
Plunket
Plunket is New Zealand's leading provider of well child and family health services in New Zealand.
Raising Grandchildren
A website that features articles, professional commentary, blog, helpful tips for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren 24/7
Teen Mums (New Zealand)
A site especially for NZ Teen Mums which supports and connects young parents who are bringing their children up in a difficult world.
Teeny Tiny Tots Parenting Forum
Teeny Tiny Tots is your online community for Kiwi Parents. We offer support, friendship, advice and information for all aspects of parenting from birth onwards, including attachment parenting and home births.
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Community Net Parents Centre Plunket
Health

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Allergy
Allergy NZ
Everybody
NZ Health and Disability Support Groups
IAS
Immunisation Awareness Society
IMAC
Immunisation Advisory Centre
Jumping Beans
Physical Skills Program (Auckland)
Postnatal Distress Centre
Expert counselling, therapy and support for women and men with antenatal and postnatal distress (depression, anxiety and birth trauma) and for new parents experiencing difficulties adjusting to parenthood. The Centre is based in Mt Albert Auckland. Susan Goldstiver is a qualified registered psychotherapist with a specialist interest in postnatal distress. She will home visit new mums in the Auckland city area. Phone 09 8464978
Women's Health
Women's Health Action Trust
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Hospitals/Health Providers

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MCNZ
NZ Medical Council
New Zealand Hospitals
District Health Boards (DHBs) and hospitals in New Zealand
NW Health Info
National Women's Hospital Health Information Service.(Auckland)
NZCOM
The New Zealand College of Midwives (NZCOM) is the professional organisation and recognised 'voice' for midwives in New Zealand.
Paediatrics
The aims and objectives of the Society are to stimulate interest in and to promote the scientific study of child health and Paediatrics in New Zealand.
Starship Children's Health Family Information Service
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The Service provides families in New Zealand with information about children's medical conditions and disabilities and with the contact details of parent and community support groups.
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Medical Conditions

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APEC
Our website features information on pre-eclampsia as well as up-to-date news on research and the organisation's activities.
Asthma NZ
Asthma and Respiratory Foundation of New Zealand
Autism NZ
The main purpose of Autism New Zealand Inc. is to provide support, resources and information on autistic spectrum disorders to those with these conditions, their family/whanau, caregivers and professionals working with them.
Cleft Lip and Palate Support Group
To assist parents and caregivers of children with a cleft lip and/or palate to best meet the needs of their child and family.
DPA
DPA is the collective voice of people with disability in New Zealand based on principles of human rights and equal value of life.
Dyslexia Parent
Dyslexia Parents Resource
Endometriosis
Endometriosis Foundation
Genetics
Neuroscience
Haemophilia
Haemophilia New Zealand
Heart Children
Heart Children
Kidney Kids
There's a lot of information for you about our organisation, and how to get in touch with us; some useful stuff about kidneys and what can go wrong with them (plus how it can be fixed); and some other stuff about life as a kidney kid.
MDA
Muscular Dystrophy Association of New Zealand
Meningitis Trust
Meningitis Trust. Working towards a world that is free from meningitis and where those affected by the disease receive quality care and support for life.
New Zealand Down Syndrome Association
There mission is to inform and support families/whanau whose lives have been changed by Down syndrome
NZDSA
New Zealand Down Syndrome Association
PWSA
Prader-Willi Syndrome Association of New Zealand
Sleep apnea
American Sleep Apnea Association
The Hepatitis Foundation
To promote positive health outcomes to the people of New Zealand through education and research into viral hepatitis, and early detection and long-term follow-up of chronic hepatitis B and C.
WDSA
Wellington Downs Syndrome Association
With You Every Step of the Way
Asperger's Syndrome
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Midwifery Resources

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Home Birth
Home Birth Aotearoa
MAMA
MAMA Maternity Information Services can provide a regularly updated list of contact details for midwives working in Central & West Auckland and the North Shore and Hibiscus Coast as well as information to help women choose an LMC, plan their pregnancy care as well as free Birth and Parenting Preparation Courses in these areas.
Midwife
NZ College of Midwives
National College of Maori Midwives
National College of Maori Midwives
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Safety

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Child Safety
Child Safety
Safe Kids
Safekids New Zealand is the child safety service of Starship Childrens Health, and was established by the hospitals Trauma Services in the early 1990s. The aim of the service was, and still is to reduce the numbers of children who are admitted to hospitals, or killed by preventable injuries
Safer streets
This Campaign is co-ordinated by Safekids New Zealand in partnership with a number of government and non-government agencies
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SafeKids New Zealand
Support Organisations

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Bed Wet
Support for parents of bedwetting children
Best Care Doulas
Best Care Doulas provides post natal support for mum, baby and family in your home. Site also provides information on how to become a doula
Birthright
It is a national organisation which works to support, strengthen and advocate for one-parent families
Community
An internet resource to support communities throughout Aotearoa New Zealand
Crying over spilt milk
Gastric Reflux Support Network NZ for Parents of Infants and Children Charitable Trust (GRSNNZ) Ph: 0800 380 517
Empty Cradles
We are parents who have lived through the very same experience, whether that may be miscarriage or infant loss.
Everybody
SIDS / Cot Death Association
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Trust
To provide support to grandparents who are primary caregivers
IHC
Intellectual Disabilities
La Leche League
Our mission is to help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, education, information, and encouragement and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother.
Miscarriage Support
We are a team of volunteers of various ages who have all experienced the loss of our own babies and would like to provide emotional support and information for women and their families during and after miscarriage and subsequent pregnancies
Mothers Network
Mothers Network (NZ) Inc is a National Network of enthusiastic, dedicated women working together to provide a stimulating environment for mothers to communicate and express themselves.
NZ Multiple Birth Association (NZMBA)
NZ Multiple Birth Association. If you are expecting, or raising multiples, the New Zealand Multiple Birth Association can help you.
NZORD
The New Zealand Organisation for Rare Disorders provides quality information about rare conditions, has a comprehensive directory of more than 160 NZ support groups, and promotes policy discussion.
Pregnancy Help
Pregnancy Help supports the well being of Pregnant and recently pregnant women, New mothers and theirfamilies/whanau, With care, concern and confidentiality.
Pregnancy Loss
Pregnancy Loss
PSS
Presbyterian Support Services
Raising Grandchildren
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Trust
RMHC
Ronald McDonald House Charities
Stork to Chalk
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TABS
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) arising from events before, during, after or throughout the whole of the birth experience.
The Triplet Connection
The Triplet Connection is a for multiple-birth families (US).
Twin Loss
Surviving the loss of twins
Twins Magazine
Twins Magazine for parents of multiples (USA).
Women's Refuge
Women's Refuge
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