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The Pink Campervan is coming to Mamia! 🩷Bring your mums, sisters, besties, aunties, nannies too!Breast Cancer Foundation...
08/11/2026

The Pink Campervan is coming to Mamia! 🩷

Bring your mums, sisters, besties, aunties, nannies too!

Breast Cancer Foundation NZ’s Pink Campervan and specialist breast health nurses will be here:
📍: Mamia Carpark 11 Kauru Rd, Waipatu
⏰: 9am till 2:30pm

They are also coming into the whare to share kōrero at 11am.

Whether you have questions about mammograms, changes to your breasts, or want to know more about general breast health, the team are here to help.

No appointments needed – just pop in for free breast health advice!

Nau Mai, haere mai x

🎀 Aroha mai, aroha atu – the receiving of love, the giving of love - we are aaall about that at Mamia 🌺 It was our pleas...
06/11/2026

🎀 Aroha mai, aroha atu – the receiving of love, the giving of love - we are aaall about that at Mamia 🌺

It was our pleasure to welcome Vanessa Bousfield of Hawke's Bay Foundation and both Anna Jepson & Sue Lock from the HB Women's Charity Tennis Tournament, who together gave generously to Mamia, whose ringa hora reach out on the daily to wāhine, māmā, tamariki and whānau 🎀 Thank you for spending time with us, sharing morning tea and even enjoying a snippet of what “on the floor” is like.. !

And from there it’s been a week of wows! 🐝

💎 First postnatal pop-ins – where puku return as pēpi 🚼
💎 Sisters supporting sisters, friends accompanying friends
💎 Kaimahi bringing along wāhine to ease first visit nerves
💎 Watching the natural tuakana-teina connections unfold between wāhine and māmā
💎 Breathing as a village in the lushness of Ranginui 🌤️& Papatūānuku 🌿
💎 Welcoming back the proudest new mummy and daddy with their little taonga – and precious, beaming birth story! 💗
💎 Māmā asking questions & getting what they need for their tamariki in their time with Dr Eve, and WCTO core checks ✔️✔️right here in the whare with our nurses... before joining the sun-deck sprawl ⛱️☀️

What will next week bring?? 🪡

Naumai haramai! 🦋

🍃 Mane: Kori Tinana, 10:30am & Tākuta Tamaiti, 12-2pm
🍃 Tūrei: Taonga Tuku Iho: learn and enjoy te reo Māori, 10:30am
🍃 Wenerei: Ūkaipō: Breast Cancer Foundation NZ’s Pink Campervan, 9am – 2.30pm; Kōrero, 11am
🍃 Taite: Ōmāio: creativity, connection & kōrerorero; Kori Tinana 1pm.

That’s right, we are excited to have the Pink Campervan 🚚 with us onsite next Wednesday. Specialist breast health nurses will be here to share important breast health info –
🈁 Do you know how to check your Ū? ➿
🈁 What are we looking for? Feeling for? 🙆‍♀️
🈁 How important are mammograms – and how do I book?
🈁 Does breast cancer affect our tāne?

Bring your questions, your sisters, aunties, nannies. No appointments needed – just rock up 😊 they are here until 2.30pm – with a talk at 11am ⏰

📣 Pātai mai or reach out through our contacts below. We are a homely kāinga, a passionate kaimahi team and can help with transport if you need – we look forward to seeing you x

☎️ Text/call 022 491 5372
💻 [email protected]
🛎️ Te Maioha o Mamia on FB messenger
🖥️ Or our website www.mamia.co.nz
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Tamaiti ākona ki te kāinga, tū ana ki te marae tau ana 🏠We immerse Tama-Ariki ✨ in manaaki, reo aroha and whānau in our ...
30/10/2026

Tamaiti ākona ki te kāinga, tū ana ki te marae tau ana 🏠

We immerse Tama-Ariki ✨ in manaaki, reo aroha and whānau in our Mamia kāinga and their growing sense of belonging develops with each visit as they see and feel their māmā relaxed and supported 💕

Hīkoi marae with Nanny Bub are a special experience that extends that belonging and home-away-from-home, bringing our mums, bubs and whānau through the waharoa to meet and be held by the wider whenua, marae and village that wraps around them at Mamia 💗

And it is always a joy to see the mauri in our little ones rise as we cross the Ātea 💚 eager to wriggle free and mihi to the whare, the tīpuna in our carvings and to explore with curiosity as unhurried mums, Nannies and Aunties celebrate their confidence ✨

We have enjoyed this short week with a new rōpū of māmā & pāpā to be🤰🏻, first visits 🏡, creating 🧶🎨, peek-a-boo 🫣 and rounded off with gentle mums and bubs breathwork 🌬️ Come in next week, you will find connection with others, belonging, rest, the support you need, and the opportunity to learn something new and fill your cup ☕️

Our Noema Wātaka is below, we will begin some easy Christmas gift and craft making🎄, and look forward to having the Breast Cancer Foundation NZ Pink Caravan with us for the day on the 11th.

✋ 🔔 🧸📎🚸 Mamia offers Well Child Tamariki Ora nursing care and core checks integrated at our kāinga & in the community as needed. Come and meet the lovely Registered Nurses Jaime and Ariana and find out more! And even if you are with another WCTO provider, you are open-arms welcome at Mamia for connection and wraparound aroha and whānau 🫶🏽💛 we celebrate the wellbeing choices of whānau and enjoy building relationships with services to work together & support tamariki, māmā & whānau! 🧡💛 if you’re expecting 🤰 , check out Kōpū hapūtanga antenatal @ Mamia and enjoy continued care into Tamariki Ora!

Our Hei Little Tiki Early Years focus of child development & parenting adds more for your kete 🧺

And don’t forget child health specialist Whaea Dr Eve is here on Mondays to suss out your tamariki-centred curiosity & questions through Tākuta Tamaiti 🩺🔭🧩 ! No cost 🫶🏽♥️🛶

What sort of curiosities or questions do whānau bring to Tamariki Ora and Tākuta Tamaiti @ Mamia?

🎨 is my tamaiti’s hearing & vision ok?
🎨 should my Tamaiti be saying more words?
🎨 can you look at this rash please?
🎨 what play & movement can we be doing at home?
🎨 what is some sleeping advice?
🎨 can we talk about allergies & seasonal illness?
🎨 what are some safety tips for at home?
🎨 please enrol us with Oranga niho 🦷 dental health
🎨 what do atuatanga & pūrākau say about my tamaiti’s qualities & temperament?
🎨 what are some tools & strategies I can take home for my tamariki & whānau today?

Next week we have:
🩷 Mane: Kori Tinana, 10:30am & Tākuta Tamaiti, 12-2pm
🩷 Tūrei: Taonga Tuku Iho: learn and enjoy te reo Māori, 10:30am
🩷 Wenerei: Kōpū antenatal wānanga #2, 10:30-12:30pm
🩷 Taite: Ūkaipō - Wāhine wellness 10:30am & Kori Tinana 1pm.

We can support with transport if you’d like a ride 🚐, we are a relaxed and homely kāinga waiting to welcome you in x

You can contact us via:
☎️ Text/call 022 491 5372
💻 [email protected]
📬 Te Maioha o Mamia on FB messenger
🌏 Or our website www.mamia.co.nz

🌕 Turu o te rima o Kōpū, the first of our full moons in the fifth Māori month of Kōpū rises just before sunset tonight ✨...
24/10/2026

🌕 Turu o te rima o Kōpū, the first of our full moons in the fifth Māori month of Kōpū rises just before sunset tonight ✨

Te Marama has this one evening each month to rise and blow a goodnight kiss across to her tuakana Tamanuiterā as he sets soon after in the West 🌅. Her growth into fullness 🌗🌖🌕 is often likened to the swelling puku, healthy glow and radiant beauty of a hapū māmā soon to birth her pēpi into Te Ao Mārama☀️

📅 We start our last Kōpū intake next Wednesday 28th October. If you are pregnant and wanting to prepare for or refine your birthing experience with us by your side, come and join us! Your learning will be fun, relaxed and conversational, and you’ll have time to meet our own Mamia Tamariki Ora nurses as more kaimahi aunties in the whare 🫶

This week we welcomed new whānau into the kāinga, where some hands-on parenting practice occurred only days before pēpi arrived! 🤱 And we had a beautiful circle of tummy rollers whose mummies and nannies learnt about singing 🎶 talking 🗣️ sound 🪕and the joy in nohinohi seeing their friends at the same stage of development, and using mirrors 🪞 to see themselves and others from a new angle!

Wherever you are in your maternal journey, whether carrying a pēpi in your puku, in your arms, or in your heart, there is aroha, manaaki and connection for you here at Mamia💕

Come and enjoy the beautiful spaciousness here at our whare Āmiorangi. 🏠 Let us know if you’d like a ride 🚐, have a cuppa ☕️ and stay for lunch, a relax sun-sit ☀️ or learn how fun play is for your tamaiti – and return home uplifted, with new ideas and inspirations! 🫶

The week ahead at Mamia:
🌘 Mane: Whare closed - public holiday
🌗 Tūrei: Taonga Tuku Iho - te reo Māori with your pēpi (10:30am)
🌖 Wenerei: Kōpū Antenatal Wānanga (10:30-12.30pm)
🌕 Taite: Hikoi Marae (11am) + Kori Tinana (1pm)

We look forward to seeing or connecting with you, you can contact us via:

☎️ Text/call 022 491 5372
💻 [email protected]
📬 Te Maioha o Mamia on FB messenger
🖥️ Or our website www.mamia.co.nz

Pitopito kōrero - whakanuia celebrate! 🙌 Ahakoa he maha ngā mea e pai ana ki te ao, ko te ngākau manawanui te tino taong...
21/10/2026

Pitopito kōrero - whakanuia celebrate! 🙌

Ahakoa he maha ngā mea e pai ana ki te ao, ko te ngākau manawanui te tino taonga 🌾🌻🌿🪎

E te tuakana, Andi, nō mātau te hōnore ki te mihi ki a koe mō tō mahi nunui ki te hāpai i te hauora o ngā tamariki, ngā māmā me ngā whānau hoki. Mahia te mahi i runga i te pono o te Tiriti. He hōhonu he whānui ō pūkenga tino rawa atu. E karanga ake tō maunga kaiora, whaia te iti kahurangi! 🗻🌬️💨🎐

We wish to acknowledge Andi, her professional and clinical practice, PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowship, whānau friends and colleagues, which have all led to the huge contribution she has made and continues to do in Aotearoa and further, to support tamariki, wāhine and whānau! 💛 Andi is super humble but a really wonderful & impactful quality of Andi’s is her compassion for tamariki & whānau, & sharing her expertise, collaboration and promotion with, for and of others, especially in community & kaupapa Māori, to do good mahi, while she quietly remains in the background as a strength and champion🌻

We are proud and grateful for your aroha and kaitiakitanga of Mamia, Andi. Recalling those days during our PhDs and clinical practice where we wished for a difference and our ideas to change it up! 💛 Thank you always for your support and guidance to me and us all. Miharo kē, koe!

✨Dr Andi Crawford has over 20 years of experience working in child development, child and adolescent mental health, maternal mental health, and addiction services. In her work Andi is committed to partnering and collaborating with Māori to honour the responsibilities of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Andi has been part of the Mamia whānau since it started in 2020 and believes in the power of community and care for each other. She has specific expertise in Te Iho Tātai-ā-Rongo (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder) and was the Tangata Tiriti co-lead for the development of the Whakakotahitanga Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder diagnostic guidelines for Aotearoa New Zealand (2024) with Hāpai te Hauora. Andi now works privately providing supervision, research and training ✨

Mauri Ora! ✨✨✨✨

Tamatea o te rima o Kōpū: ‘Kua wetewete te rau o te rākau’🌱🌳Tāwhirimātea and our Atua of weather, soil, planting and gro...
16/10/2026

Tamatea o te rima o Kōpū: ‘Kua wetewete te rau o te rākau’🌱🌳

Tāwhirimātea and our Atua of weather, soil, planting and growing kai are working double time at the moment with the birds and winds spreading seeds, the rain helping them bed in while watering newly planted māra, and the taiao humming with new life and growth☀️🌡️🌧️❄️🌱🪏🥦🍅🥬

Aligned with the maramataka and this time of seeding, momentum and flourishing, our Kaiarataki and Whānau Mamia have enjoyed two days of in-house training and hikoi whenua this week 👣

And how did we go a-roaming you may ask? Why we took a pahi 🚌 of course!

We set off bright and early like Rongokako and Tamatea Pōkai Whenua 👣, to whakawhānau as we learned the history and connections from the Kurahaupō + Takitimu waka⛵️, through to Heretaunga, to our tīpuna🪝, to where they lived🏠 and gathered kai, and why.

Packed with with one ukulele, our Pou, three Ama, 10 kaimahi, a nine waiata medley🎵, an enthusiastic +1, yummy packed 🥪🍊, 1x 🎤, and Uncle Ngahiwi as our navigator-historian-storyteller extraordinaire. Ka mutu pea ēnei rā ako me te tipi haere, mō te kaupapa, mō ngā mokopuna me ngā whānau te take ❤️

Ngā tai o mihi ki a koutou Uncle, Aria & James 🌺

Looking ahead to next week we have our favourite Whaea Deb back to share all things oranga niho 🦷🪥, answer any pātai, and take a look at little teeth if you’d like her to 🤍

👣 Mane: Kori tinana (10.30am) + Tākuta Tamaiti (12-2pm)

👣 Tūrei: Taonga Tuku Iho - te reo Māori with your pēpi (10:30am)

👣 Wenerei: Waiū - Tākaro, how play helps pēpi learn and grow (10:30am)

👣Taite: Whaea Deb Oranga Niho (10.30am) + Kori Tinana (1pm)

If you are hapū we’d love you to join us for Kōpū antenatal wānanga starting in two weeks (Weds 28th). See details below.
We look forward to seeing or connecting with you, you can contact us via:

☎️ Text/call 022 491 5372
💻 [email protected]
📬 Te Maioha o Mamia on FB messenger
🌏 Or our website www.mamia.co.nz
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Tiramarama nei e ✨Oh, how our tamariki shine and sparkle!With wāhi tākaro spread throughout our whare from our rūma noho...
10/10/2026

Tiramarama nei e ✨
Oh, how our tamariki shine and sparkle!

With wāhi tākaro spread throughout our whare from our rūma noho Kaunoti, across our deck space Huarewa and out onto the lush whenua 🌿 the tamariki, māmā and kaimahi have lay, played and rolled far and wide!

Inspiring kōrero has taken place with our nohinohi centred in the middle 💫 eyeing one another, reaching and touching little fingertips of their nearby friends and playing peekaboo with gleeful giggles! 🫟

And there are pēpi, nohinohi and their whānau who leave our whare to venture off ⛵️, but return to show us their bigger selves and fill our hearts some more 💗 Sending a biiig mihi to all our mokopuna who popped in to say a happy “kia ora e te whānau” to us again! 👋🏽

And just as many māmā become tuakana to first time visiting wāhine, we see this modelled through the tamariki too.. runners showing mindfulness of rollers, walkers taking care with their crawling friends – Tiramarama nei e 🌟

Whare Āmiorangi has held birthing practice, whānau birth stories, and tamariki of all ages and stages this past week,

And this week ahead we rest her for a few days…

💛 Mane: Kori tinana (10.30am) + Tākuta Tamaiti (12-2pm)

❤️ Tūrei & Wenerei: WHARE CLOSED all day for Kaimahi Training

🧡 Taite: Ūkaipō (10.30am) + Kori Tinana (1pm)

We look forward to seeing or connecting with you Monday or Thursday, you can contact us via:

☎️ Text/call 022 491 5372
💻 [email protected]
📬 Te Maioha o Mamia on FB messenger
🌏 Or our website www.mamia.co.nz
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Alaay loo ta nuv! — Celebrate the loveCoatee-cha tu yub nub! — Celebrate the freedom!“Let the wild rumpus start!” — Max,...
08/10/2026

Alaay loo ta nuv! — Celebrate the love

Coatee-cha tu yub nub! — Celebrate the freedom!

“Let the wild rumpus start!” — Max, after becoming king of the Wild Things.

Amazing trip to Whanganui-a-Tara to kōrero wonderment & magic. A privilege to meet amazing creators, listen to their joy & expertise, & stoke the fire 🔥 for Kaupapa nohinohi & their whānau 🧡💛 he mihi maioha ki a Robin & Toni, Wildspace tamariki & whānau kaimahi, Childspace Wilton tamariki & whānau kaimahi, Johnny, Spatial Justice Aotearoa Becky, Amiria, & Kahurangi 🌟

https://www.spatialjustice.org.nz/

Reminds me of uncle Mahea & the song we learned when tamariki - “Walking through the jungle with a tummy ache, try to find a toilet, prrrh, too late!” 🎶 😂

Ee chee wa maa! — Wow! 🤩

🌺 Kia ora rā e te whānau! 🐝We hope the holidays have started off well, as the day-to-day rhythm may look a little differ...
02/10/2026

🌺 Kia ora rā e te whānau! 🐝

We hope the holidays have started off well, as the day-to-day rhythm may look a little different with older tamariki at home and Daylight Savings underway..

☀️ Tamanuiterā has been on our side this week and for us here in our Mamia whare – Āmiorangi 🏠 we have spread our play, creativity and kōrerorero out onto the deck, and even bare foot through the lush grass 🍀

We welcomed new whānau into our folds this week, as well as returning māmā & their new little ones for first postnatal visits after their Kōpū Antenatal wānanga! From bellies to bundles, our pēpi massage morning gathered & reunited new & old friends 🐛🦋

Thank you to our dear friend Riz for guiding these beautiful & keen māmā with their loving touch as each doted on their pēpi 💜 “..hōmai tō kiri, kia ronga atu au” 💜

📍Please do see our October Wātaka below, as our next *Kōpū Antenatal* pregnancy, birth & postpartum education series starts soon.

📍And see our *Well Child Tamariki Ora* flyer attached if you would like to register your pēpi with Mamia and have your nursing & core checks done right here in our kāinga!

Join us this week for that connection & kōrero with others that inspires & uplifts, and watch your little ones socialise & connect with each other too – māmā & pēpi wellbeing is a team sport ❤ do come and take part

🍄‍🟫 Mane: Kori tinana (10.30am) + Tākuta Tamaiti (12-2pm)

🍄‍🟫 Tūrei: Taonga Tuku Iho – everyday reo with your pēpi & whānau (10.30-11.30am)

🍄‍🟫 Wenerei: Waiū – māmā & pēpi sharing (10.30-11.30am)

🍄‍🟫 Taite: Everyday kaupapa – connection + creativity + Kori Tinana (1pm)

Naumai haere mai ki Mamia 🌱 You can contact us via:

☎️ Text/call 022 491 5372
💻 [email protected]
📬 Te Maioha o Mamia on FB messenger
🌏 Or our website www.mamia.co.nz

🌿 BABY MASSAGE CLASS | TODAY (Weds 29th) 🌿🙌 If you have a pēpi 0-4 months and would like to join us and Rizwaana this mo...
29/09/2026

🌿 BABY MASSAGE CLASS | TODAY (Weds 29th) 🌿

🙌 If you have a pēpi 0-4 months and would like to join us and Rizwaana this morning (10:30am), please DM, text or call us ASAP 🤎

A gentle space for māmā and pēpi to slow down, connect and learn simple massage techniques to support and connect with pēpi through loving touch.

🗓 Today, Weds 29th
⏰ 10:30am
📍 Mamia Whare "Āmiorangi" - 11 Kauru Rd, Waipatu
📞 022 491 5372

Come as you are, settle in and enjoy some beautiful time with your pēpi and other māmā.

We’d love to see you there. 🤎

Naumai, haere mai e ngā māmā me ngā pēpi.

Address

11 Kauru Road, Waipatu
Hastings
4172

Opening Hours

Monday 9:30am - 3:30pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 3:30pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 3:30pm
Thursday 9:30am - 3:30pm

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