What we can offer midwives.

Check out the Midwife Store tab for all your midwifery consumable needs.

Collected 4.05pm, Monday to Friday

We have a drop off box for lab specimens at the Midwifery Resource Centre for your convenience. The drop off box is located in the room to your right when you enter the College building through the door opposite the resource centre.

We have two clinic rooms available to rent for midwifery clinics. Contact us for information on availability.

We are now providing vaccination for pregnant people in drop in hours, this will extend with demand. Please encourage people to book via the website.

we will inform the community when RAADP is available

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We are now a collection point for pepi pods. Whānau can come to us directly or midwives can take one for a whānau. We collect data on who is needing a pepi pod

Please note: there is distribution criteria (eg. smoking/ no sleep space/intends to bedshare) that you, the midwife, must fill out. If whānau Māori, contact us and we will arrange a wahakura.

We also are a collection point to recycle pepi pods/wahakura and have koha for this.

We hold Homebirth hampers for midwives who are members of the Homebirth Canterbury

We have homebirth linen packs and instruments available to midwives who have clients choosing to birth at home after the recent closure of St Georges Primary Birthing Unit

We hold Miscarriage Matters gift hampers for whānau experiencing loss.

Midwives can collect these as needed.

Lactation Consultant Jo King runs a drop in LC service on Monday mornings 9-1pm. We do not take bookings for the drop in.

We also take bookings for the Antenatal Breastfeeding Classes held at St Georges on her behalf.

The MRC stepped into the PPE space whilst Covid 19 was a pandemic. We still hold PPE and RAT Tests free for midwives.

Free for collection

December and January is a challenging time for whānau to find a midwife as midwives choose to spend time with their own whānau. We hold the Festive List contract and coordinate pregnant people and midwives to ensure midwifery care is accessible.

Pamphlets

Library- Books to offer clients

Breastfeeding packs for women

Newborn screening test cards, Quikheel Lancets and freepost envelopes

Aviva 0800 barcode stickers

CCC Newborn Library Packs

Pacific Radiology referral forms

MOH Immunisation information

FGM resource kit

Well Child Tamariki Ora books

MIDIRS Midwifery Digest

Midwife feedback stickers and cards