Ashburton community maternity unit — Canterbury

To contact Ashburton community maternity unit, call: 03 307 8483

Recommended visiting hours are between 3pm and 7pm. Birth support people can visit at any time.

Ashburton community maternity unit is at:

Ashburton Maternity Unit
Oak Grove
Ashburton, 7700

Birthing services

We provide 24-hour midwifery and nursing care during and after birth.

We provide a relaxed homelike environment enabling uninterrupted birth and adjustment to parenthood, with time to support you during breastfeeding. This may include an extended stay to establish breastfeeding if you live remotely.

Our maternity unit is fully equipped for childbirth, and the midwives are regularly trained to deal with emergencies. We occasionally transfer women to tertiary services at Christchurch Women's Hospital if necessary.

If you give birth at Christchurch Women's Hospital, you can transfer to Ashburton community birthing unit for postnatal care.

We provide:

• 3 fully equipped birthing rooms
• a birthing pool
• a spa bath
• 2 double bedrooms
• 3 single postnatal rooms
• lazy boys for your support person to stay with you for one night
• free parking
• Wi-Fi internet access
• a ward phone line to make or receive local calls
• a lounge with a TV and DVD player

Catering

We have a kitchen for tea, coffee, toast and biscuits. The kitchen opens to an enclosed courtyard garden. We provide a supper of scones, muffins or cakes in the evenings.

An onsite cafe, Café Pulse, is open for visitors from 7am to 7pm. It provides full meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Community services and support groups

Ashburton newcomers network

• phone: 03 308 1395
• email: newcomers@saferashburton.org.nz

Breastfeeding support groups

• free phone: 0800 800 743 (extension 212)
• location: Plunket Centre, 222 Cameron Street (meetings on Mondays, 10am to 12pm)

Christchurch multiple birth club

• phone: 0800 489 467

Parent centre

• phone: 021 0288 0861
• email: ashparentscentre@gmail.com

Ashburton Plunket

• phone: 03 308 5272

Birthright Ashburton

Birthright works with single parent families throughout New Zealand to facilitate the growth of confidence, skills and resilience within the family unit and its individual member.

• phone: 0800 457 146
• email: birthright@gmail.com

Community house

• phone: 03 308 1237

Relationships Aotearoa

• phone: 03 308 9328
• email: ashburton@relationshipsaotearoa.org.nz