Free Facilities

  • Family birthing Rooms with double beds and bathroom en suites.
  • Full birthing facilities for normal birth.
  • Pool for water births and labour.
  • Partners can stay 1st night (Birth Day, please see below).
  • Postnatal stay - usually 1-4 days.
  • You can transfer back from another hospital postnatally, within 12 hours of a normal birth or 24 hours after a caesarean. Subject to availability of rooms. Your Lead Maternity Carer (LMC) should arrange transfer preferably during labour.
  • 24 hour trained Nursing Staff to care for you postnatally.
  • Kitchen for tea and coffee making.
  • TV in rooms.
  • All linen provided for you and your baby.
  • Free Prenatal, Birth and Parenting Classes. Phone The Birthing Centre to book.
  • Plunket Carseat Rental. Open Wed 4-5:30. Phone (09)425 9291.
  • A live-in Caretaker is on site.

We welcome women and their families to come and see the centre by appointment.
Please phone the Birthing Centre (09)425 8201