Labour and Love

10/06/2026

✨ Just launched — the Water Birth Prep Pack ✨

Three beautiful digital guides to help you walk into your birth feeling calm, prepared and supported:

🤍 Birth Preferences - map out your ideal birth and share it with your team
🤍 Acupressure & Birth Comb Guide - drug-free comfort for every contraction
🤍 Partner's Labour Support Guide - everything your support person needs to be your anchor

Designed here in NZ. Instant download - print it or fill it in on screen.

This week only: 20% off the bundle (just $17.90) — or get it FREE with any pool hire 🛁

Tap the link in bio to shop. Ends Sunday 15 June 🤍

08/06/2026

“I cannot recommend Labour & Love enough…” 🤍

Kristie hired one of our birth pools for her planned homebirth, and even before labour began, it became something so much more than just a pool, it became peace of mind.

Knowing everything was ready, even with a storm rolling in and the unknowns of first-time motherhood, allowed her to settle into those final weeks feeling calm, prepared, and supported.

And even when birth took a different path, that sense of reassurance stayed with her; which is exactly why we do what we do.

So incredibly grateful to be a small part of your journey, Kristie 🤍

02/06/2026

Bring your baby Earthside with our Natural Cream Birth Pools. We offer hire options (all accessories included and delivered right to you) or purchase options for those planning more home water births 🤍

If you are a midwife we have curated kits just for you. Email [email protected]

02/06/2026

Soft, grounded, and designed to support you through every wave 🤍

Our Labour & Love birth pool isn’t just about water. It’s about creating a space where you feel safe, held, and in control. With sturdy handles to anchor into during surges, a built-in seat for moments of rest, and a deep, supportive design to help your body soften and open… every detail is there for a reason.

Because birth deserves to feel as calm, powerful, and supported as possible ✨

02/06/2026

In search of the perfect gift for a mum or mum-to-be?

This journal has been designed by a PP mumma. It is a space for reflection and journalling your journey into motherhood. It holds a space for birth reflection with trauma aware prompts, letters to yourself and your baby, self care rituals and more.

Link in bio x

26/05/2026

Something we've poured so much love into — and we're so proud to share it today.

Introducing our Aligned Practitioner Directory: a hand-picked space to find midwives, doulas, birth keepers and other birth workers across Aotearoa who honour home birth, water birth, physiological birth — and every family's right to make their own informed choices.

Browse the directory here → https://labourandlove.co.nz/pages/find-a-midwife-or-doula

Filter by your region. Find someone close to home.

Read about each practitioner in their own words.

And just to say — there are so many beautiful midwives, doulas and birth workers serving whānau all across Aotearoa, and this isn't the only good list out there. It's simply our hand-picked, aligned community — built slowly, with care, and with you in mind.

With deep gratitude to the practitioners already in our directory:

Karene, Bronwynn,
Sharon Robinson Cindy Page Midwife , Desiree, Michelle Ann Davis Josie Gritten , Vicky, Ruby Sabour, Maran, Emilie, Raigan, Vivienne, Michelle, Nell, Julia and Jess and the many more to come!

If you're a midwife, doula or birth worker whose values align with ours — we'd love to welcome you in. Apply here → https://labourandlove.co.nz/pages/join-our-directory

Tag a mumma who'd love this. Or a practitioner who belongs here.

With love, Dee × Labour and Love

20/05/2026

For the mums who read every ingredient label, google every symptom, and want to understand exactly what their body needs…

and for the mums who are like “yep, that feels right” and add to cart at 2am mid-scroll 🤍

Either way; you deserve to feel supported, nourished, and held in every season ✨

Our Sacred Seasons Belly Oil is with you through it all… the stretching, the growing, the healing.

Because your body is doing something incredible and it deserves care that matches 🤍

(But also… add to cart before the hormones do 😉)

19/05/2026

those slow, sleepy breaths I never wanted to move him from 🤍

i remember sitting there thinking 'don’t move, don’t rush this, just stay'… because somehow you know, even in the moment, it won’t last forever.

now he’s bigger, busier, louder and i miss these quiet little pauses more than I thought I would.

motherhood stretches you forward, but pieces of you are always left in moments like this.

17/05/2026

15/05/2026

Oh… we’re walking now 🥹

I blinked and somehow we went from first cuddles to first steps… and now you’re out here crossing bridges like it’s no big deal.

A whole year of growing, changing, becoming; for both of us.
I’m so proud of you… and quietly trying to keep up at the same time.

Slow down just a little, okay?