Parenting Resources
NZ Parenting Websites
The Immunisation Awareness Society
The Immunisation Awareness Society Inc. is a voluntary and charitable organisation founded in 1988 by Hilary Butler. Its members include an increasing number of parents, caregivers, health professionals and other adults who have concerns about the safety and efficacy of vaccines, wish to make an informed decision about whether or not to vaccinate themselves or their children; and wish to maintain their right to choose to vaccinate or not.
Parents Center NZ
Parents Centre share a mission to bring about a society in which parents are highly valued in their role in the community through positive birth experience and informed parenting and advocacy. The Parents Centre website provides articles, resources, and information about available birth and parenting classes for NZ parents.
Centre for Attachment
The Centre for Attachment (CFA) is a New Zealand-based agency dedicated to providing support, education and training for families, organisations and communities on optimal child development and attachment.
The Brainwave Trust
We are a national organisation set up as a charitable trust. Our aim is to raise public awareness about the amazing new findings in brain research, which emphasise the importance of early experiences on infant brain development; and to educate about the important implications of this knowledge.
Kiwi Families
Provides information on all aspects of family life, from pregnancy through to the teen years.
Women's Health Action Trust
Women's Health Action is a charitable trust which aims to provide women with high quality information and education services to enable them to maintain their health and make informed choices about their health care.
Healthpoint Limited
Find up-to-date information about providers, referral expectations, services offered and common treatments.
International Parenting Websites
Ask Dr Sears
Comprehensive information on Pregnancy & Childbirth, Breastfeeding, Parenting, Attachment Parenting, Family Nutrition, Vaccines, Discipline & Behavior, Child Rearing and Development, Feeding Infants & Toddlers, Skin Care, Fussy Baby, Sleep Problems, and and Childhood Illnesses
API International
Through education, support, advocacy and research, our principal goal is to heighten global awareness of the profound significance of secure attachment - not only to invest in our children's bright futures, but to reduce and ultimately prevent emotional and physical mistreatment of children, addiction, crime, behavioral disorders, mental illness, and other outcomes of early unhealthy attachment.
API Speaks
API Speaks is the blog version of API International. All contributors to API Speaks, as with so many of API’s staff, are volunteers who donate their time and energy to promote Attachment Parenting world wide.
Baby Reference
What you Feed your Baby Matters. How you Treat your Baby Matters. Parents have the Power to Create and Enjoy Healthier, Happier Children with Brighter Futures.
The Fussy Baby Site
The Fussy Baby Site caters specifically to parents of high needs babies. Many of the articles on the site are contributed by experts in the field. The blog posts are written from a more personal perspective, either by the author of the website or other parents.
Dr Momma
Presents materials that foster a world of peaceful parenting, gentle birthing, and happy, healthy, securely attached little ones, growing up to make positive changes in the world around them. The website has many informative articles, a great library, and many links and resources for further reading.
Natural Parenting
The Natural Parenting website has a large selection of articles and products, and a lively online community for the naturally oriented parent.
The Natural Child Project
The Natural Child Project's vision is a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion. In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. The website provides an abundance of articles, products, research, and resources for the parent wishing take a more natural approach to parenting.
Post Partum International
Postpartum Support International is dedicated to helping women suffering from perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, including postpartum depression, the most common complication of childbirth.
Postpartum Progress
Postpartum Progress offers the latest research and an unflinching look at what it is truly like to experience postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, postpartum OCD, postpartum psychosis, and antenatal depression & anxiety. It features daily news and stigma-busting commentary, as well as a continuously-updated list of support groups around the country, personal stories from moms, photos of survivors, and links to major support organizations and top treatment programs.
Mothering
Oh Baby
Huggies
Treasures
The Nappy Network
Publications
Tummy Talk
Tummy Talk is a magazine for pregnant women and those around them, produced by Active Birth Taranaki Inc. It outlines some of the choices women can make about birth, and includes a range of tips and birth stories from NZ women and articles from respected professionals. Tummy Talk is a celebration of pregnancy, labour and the birth of a new life.
The Natural Parent Magazine
The Natural Parent (TNP)provides support and advice for parents and carers who wish to follow a respectful and non-violent way of parenting. Topics cover attachment parenting, connection parenting, BLW, breastfeeding, homeschooling, co-sleeping, and babywearing.
