Central Lakes Breastfeeding Charitable Trust Nurture Māmā
Pregnancy is often both daunting and exciting. Many friends, colleagues, whānau and, even, complete strangers frequently have lots of advice, pearls of wisdom and opinions to share, which may or may not be welcome or helpful. Then you look online and it is even more overwhelming and confusing with the oh, so many “shoulds” and “must dos”.
Yet, so often we hear: “Why didn’t I know that” or “why weren’t we told that” from new parents. In response, Central Lakes Breastfeeding Charitable Trust (CLBCT) has developed the Nurture Māmā programme, which brings together; Womens Health Physios, Breastfeeding advocates and Peer Supporters, community organisations, parents, babies, expertise from Lactation Consultants and a whole lot of passion for enabling parents.
Nurture Māmā Pregnancy Strong sessions help you learn more about how you can maintain your physical wellbeing in pregnancy and prepare your for the birth of your baby, with the most up-to-date evidence. Nurture Māmā Breastfeeding info sessions demystify breastfeeding, help equip you for decision making, start to understand the interplay with sleep and parenting and bust some of those really unhelpful breastfeeding myths. Nurture Māmā understands the value of having access to knowledgeable experts to help expectant parents build understanding whilst celebrating and welcoming the diversity of the perspectives, insights values and opinions in our community. We love learning from those we are helping.
Our local community-based facilitators have expert knowledge, extensive experience and insight and we are delighted to help make this expertise more accessible. Our facilitators can also help you access reliable and useful information if English isn’t your first language.
The opportunity to discuss, ask questions, explore ideas, share perspectives and meet other expectant parents in a comfortable, sociable and cosy setting has been enthusiastically welcomed and appreciated. Many expectant parents have also found it really helpful to start building their village and starting to decide whom they would like to ask to help them.
Registration is open to all. Whether you are five minutes pregnant or just about to birth. It can be your first baby or your fifth baby. You can be pregnant yourself or be the support person and want to know more about how to support/ help.
The sessions currently take place in Queenstown Plunket, we are also looking for a comfortable and welcoming community venue in Hanleys/ Jacks Point.
We are very grateful to our funders: QLDC and Community Trust South. We don’t promote any commercial operators and adhere to the WHO Code of Marketing.
The next Breastfeeding Information session is on Thursday, 19 February at 6.30pm.
The next Pregnancy Strong session is on Thursday, 12 February at 6.30pm.
Also from CLBCT
1. Walking Wednesdays (different walk each Wednesday finishing in a café)
2. Mums4Mums: first and third Tuesday at Frankton library 10.30 to midday
3. Friday Coffee group: each Friday at the Hayes 10.30am to Midday
4. Breastpump loan scheme
5. Peer support
6. Breastfeeding Peer Support Learning Programme starting April 2026
CLBCT also operates in Wānaka, Cromwell and Alexandra.
For more information see our facebook page, email info@centrallakesbreastfeeding.org or ring Catkin on 0274512230\ 0800 560650
