Moving to NZ late pregnancy

Where in NZ would you intend to move to?
I would ring around for an MW in the area you intend to move to and explain your situation. See if you can establish a phone or e-mail relationship with her (so she isn't a complete stranger on the day).
By the time you get over here you'll be down to weekly appointments. Make sure you have all your info from you MW in OZ.

Something my friend told me about having her baby. She had planned to have the perfect birth with only her, MW and her DH there. Turned out she ended up with registrars, gynos, trainee MW and all sorts of other people coming in and out.
She thinks at the end of the day it doesn't matter who is or isn't there (as long as DH and MW are there) because they are usually pretty respectful of the fact that it's you moment so to speak.

That might seem irreleant to you but the point I'm trying to make is, it won't matter if you organise a MW or just get the on duty MW, everything will turn out ok, so don't panic too much about it.

Just check about travelling by plane in the 3rd trimester. Think airlines have rules about it...

Most hospitals have clinical mws. Heres a link for the Naki that might help you.

http://www.tdhb.org.nz/services/maternity.shtml

I don't mean this to sound as it is going to come out, but wouldn't it be best to stay in Australia to have the baby with the baby bonus that you get for having a baby? Or would you not qualify? Remember that NZ doesn't offer anything along those lines. Just something that I am conscious of in these economic times.

I am the same about the birth I have my lmc but she has told me that her and another mw in the collective are taking alternate weekends off so I may go into labour when she isn't working therefore I will have the other mw and I'm not so bothered about it, as long as they work along the same lines and have similar personalities it doesn't bother me. And I'm sure we will have worked out a birth plan although am not sure what I want yet and as long as dp is aware of it then all should be fine.

Hi Nat, we moved to Perth recently. I had Jody in nz before I left. I asked my MW about having her next time as we plan to go back too for #2. She said to let her know ASAP just so she could sorta book me in with her. I don't think it matters if you don't want a specific MW though. I'm sure someone will take you on
Your work sounds wonderful!

I moved home - from Darwin to NZ - at 34 weeks. Qantas will let you fly up to 4 weeks from your due date (or 6 weeks if carrying multilpes or complicated pregnancy). I had my mum ring around and book me with a MW before I came home, they fill up fast but it is possible to get one if you're organised early enough along.

i would try and organise a midwife in the area you might move too and just explain your sitution to them.

my DH and i are hoping to move back home to chch at the end of nov, so month before bub is due. so i have organised a MW in chch as well as in auckland. and will meet the MW in chch when we next go down.

Ha! that is classic.....they must have that happen sometimes still I bet. And if not well I can be the first in a while ;-)

Hi Nat

I have recently moved to NZ from the UK and I was 28 weeks preggars at the time (Im 30 weeks today!) I have managed to get antenatal care through a maternity centre but its not one dedicated midwife but rather a group of midwives that wil be caring for me. This is because we arrived here so late.
However, like everyone else has said, its not really such a big deal not to have one specific MW as on the "birth day", your midwife can only work for a maximum of 10 hours I think - and most labours take alot longer than that! So you would probably only have your own MW for maybe half of the labour.

So Im pretty sure you can just rock up and register with your local hospital/maternity unit, depending on where you want to have your baby.