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The Virtual Support Network for New Zealand Families From Pregnancy to Parenting - We're With You Every Step of the Way
Bombarded with well-meaning advice from family, friends and even strangers?!? This web site is jam-packed full of information and resources to help you throughout your journey of parenthood and our team of New Zealand experts are available to answer your questions from pregnancy to parenting.
Have you recently moved or has your coffee group fizzled?? Join our forums and discuss what's on your mind, share your experiences, benefit from the support of other parents throughout New Zealand, join a local coffee group and make some new - even life-long - friends along the way!
Mums tell of troubles in finding a midwife Satuday, 10 May 2008 By RUTH HILL The number of women having difficulty finding a midwife has doubled in the past five years and more new mothers are being forced to leave hospital before they are ready, a report shows. Schools sin-binned over sport rort Satuday, 10 May 2008 By MARTHA McKENZIE-MINIFIE Three high school sports figures have been suspended from coaching major competitions in an unprecedented crackdown on poaching of star students. Mother's ex tells of tearful confession Satuday, 10 May 2008 By ANDREW KOUBARIDIS The mother of the murdered Kahui twins, Macsyna King, allegedly told a former lover, Chris didn't do it. I did, before punching a wall and sobbing on the ground. I do do becomes I don't think so for Kiwis Satuday, 10 May 2008 By SIMON COLLINS New Zealanders are drifting slowly away from formal marriage - and the new option of a civil union seems to have made no difference. NZ cartoon to teach UK children Satuday, 10 May 2008 By MARTHA McKENZIE-MINIFIE An animated Hector's Dolphin created in New Zealand is set to take the online safety message to thousands of 5 to 7-year-olds in the United Kingdom. Domestic violence forum targets new immigrants Satuday, 10 May 2008 By LINCOLN TAN Immigrant Babak Malek, 27, said his arranged-marriage wife started physically abusing him almost as soon as they got together, once even knocking him unconscious with a table lamp. Satuday, 10 May 2008 By CARROLL du CHATEAU Twenty years after the Cervical Cancer Inquiry into National Women's Hospital, gynaecologist Ron Jones, gazes out across the bay and smiles. You don't expect apologies, that'd be asking too much, he says. But this latest study confirms, without doubt, that women who had limited biopsy for diagnosis, without treatment, and continued to have abnormal [cervical] smears had a 50 to 100 times higher risk than those who had their cancer eliminated by treatment such as cone biopsy. Most woman happy with maternity care - survey Friday, 9 May 2008 Nine out of 10 women who had babies in March and April last year were happy with the maternity care they received, according to a survey released today. Kahui detective denies keeping information from defence lawyers Friday, 9 May 2008 The second in charge of the investigation into the death of the Kahui twins has denied he failed to disclose relevant information to the defence in order to help the case against murder accused Chris Kahui. Happiness is... not having children Friday, 9 May 2008 By ADELE HORIN The belief that children and money will bring people happiness is one of life's abiding illusions, a Sydney conference attended by 2000 seekers of happiness was told.
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