Under a whole, new, leadership/managment team!
The New team began in Spring 2026: Alice, Katie and Liz!!! With various career experiences and/or skills including: nursing, midwifery, clinical nutrition, mother, property management, small business ownerrship and more!
Collaborations and referals are invited with: Midwives, Nurses, Obsetricians, Chiropractors, Womens Health Physiotherapists and other many pregnancy and health professionals.
The groups' journey stretches way back, with advocating, protesting, campaigning and much, much more!
We have always provided: Monthly Pregnancy Circles, a continuously, cycling, Birth-Library, Education, Information, non-judgemental listening, picnics and on-line, social media, support!
The groups' history played a large part in helping gain the regions' government homebirth service, Belmont MGP
We have also supported the Birth Trauma Enquiry and the Maitland Homebirth Campaign, amoung many, many other actions!
We pass the banner from admin to admin!
We provide a full-time, physical, space for women, babies, children and supporters to come and visit for a cup of tea, an event, support, information, education, and even - a preloved shopping experience! (specialising in MATERNITY WEAR)
We offer affordable events and services as part of our commitment to the local community. We believe that the highest-quality support, education, and wellbeing services should be comfortably accessible and a normal and common choice for all.
We are self-funded and rely on the great gift of volunteering efforts by our team. Donations help us cover our operating costs and support our ongoing community programs and fundraising efforts. We are extremely grateful to the Warners Bay Uniting Church Congregation for their hosting of us, as their goodwill to the local Newcastle, NSW, community.
As part of our broad Community Service, we are passionate about mentoring and supporting local professionals as they grow their confidence, experience, reputation, and their personal, small businesses - contact us to find out how you can contribute to our goals and, at the same time, be nurtured by us!
(Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting)
We deeply value womens' rights and abilities to make decisions for themselves and for their children.
We appreciate that a posiitve birth can unfold by many means, but key important factors are very important, such as the woman having autonomy, love, choce and respect.
We support women with empathetic and emotional care and support as they make their own fully informed decisions for themselves and their babies.
(NOTE: for baby-care-decisions this would include equal input with any other parent)
We work hard to support women before and after birth to heal from trauma and to be heard emotionally and fully. We appreciate that Trauma is solely defined by a womans' experience and feeling and is very individual to her and her internal (and external) state. Birth Trauma can be physical, emotional, mental and/or spiritual.
The mother (and any other involved parent) share equal decision making in wellbeing decisions for their child. We support the importance of creating a safe space where persons can bring up any topic without shame, attack or judgement. We support the right for parents to make fully informed decisions.
We appreciate that all places of birth endeavour to provide expert care of a high standard, and that all places of birth can also, on occasion, provide substandard care and even neglectful care. We support women to make complaints and take action in cases of neglect. We also want women who are planning for their births to understand that their birth outcomes are MOST highly related to their level of knowledge, preparation and use of their legal rights to make fully informed decisions, not as related to their choice of where THEY BIRTH. Having said that, certain models of care do have different statistical variations and if a woman is interested to investigate the outcomes and statistics of a Hospital she may choose to look through the latest Mother and Babies Report.
We believe that freebirth should never be promoted or suggested to a pregnant woman. We believe that promoting or suggesting freebirth to a woman who is desiring or seeking a medical care provider could endanger the woman or her baby. We support womens' autonomy and legal right to choose where and with whom she births her baby. We devote time, energy and activism into asking the government to fund great quality one to one continual care for women and babies for optimal birth outcomes. for all women.
We dream that all women can be fully, lovingly, patiently supported to birth, bond and breastfeed with their babies - if they so desire.
We appreciate that some women desire other choices and we support the autonomy and choice of all women for what they are comfortable with/not comfortable with.
We support women emotionally and with information/education, to help her have the most positive birth and feeding experience available to her, under her own unique expereinces.
Welcome to the Newcastle Birth Movement
Opening Hours: Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Friday - open from 11:30am-12:30pm
35 Year Tradition - runs monthly at no cost to guests! Mums of all ages and stages enjoy the comfortable, friendly, feeling of connection.
Each month a new guest-mum-speaker is asked to share her empowering and natural, birth story. Birth stories are shared for wisdoms and learnings.
After Birth Story time, all particiapnts are facilitated to share in circle on a topic of "relationship". Check the event link for the next topic coming up.
Feel welcome to share your feelings with us. We are women/mothers and can sit by your side and listen with care and empathy.
We can refer you to local supportive Doulas/Counsellors/Birth Story Listener Practitioners.
We maintain and list a page at our website "Find a Doula in the Hunter" to help you to know your choices and to help you to begin contacting and interviewing your Doula!!!
We have experienced Birth Doulas come as guests speakers to run our pregnacy circle once a month. (this is a zero cost event and a 35 year tradition!)
After birth, come along and be cared and supported through our Mums and Bubs Gatherings (Thursdays 10am)
Be emotionally and educationally supported by holistic and professional guest speakers: Post Partum Doulas, Womens Health Physios, Naturopaths, Nutritionalists, Chiropractors, Counsellors and more.
Breastfeeding Workshops. Run by various locals such as Thompson Method Educators, IBCLCS and the ABA Educators. Contact to ask us "Whats coming up"?
Come along for a chat as a mum/parent anytime. We are here for a cup of tea. And keep an eye out for our various parenting workshops. We like to run workshops for baby feeding, healthy boundaries, self-care and more!
Come along and enjoy affordable, professional Pregnancy and Post Partum Massage Therapists at our Masaage Room.
Respect and honour to the Awabakal and Worimi people as the original and wise custodians of this land. Honour to those who have birthed and breastfed their babies on this sacred land for more than 65,000 years. May ancient wisdoms find their way into the hearts of all.