Hello and welcome to the August issue of BabyWebNZ newsletter.
As a Midwife and Childbirth Educator, I have a mission to provide information that parents have told me they would like to have about pregnancy, babies and parenting.
BabyWebNZ is a way for New Zealand parents to access such information on many relevant websites here in our own country.
I increase awareness of BabyWebNZ through everything I do, including writing articles and teaching Childbirth Education classes.
Helen
Read our BabyWebNZ blog for news and useful articles.
Our Wellington based childbirth classes are called BirthResources to complement them and deliver further information, we have set up a BirthResources website www.birthresources.org, packed with useful information for parents and Childbirth Educators.
Topics in this issue
Promotions
General Notes
Upcoming Events
Websites
This issue was sponsored by
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Bounty.co.nz – For you and your family.
Bounty – for you and your family
Bounty is market leader in producing the latest information for expectant parents, new parents and their families.
Bounty Gift Pack contains free samples and information including the publication “Your Baby”.
BirthResources will start distributing these packs. If you haven’t received one, you can print a redeemable coupon from their website and collect your pack from several outlets.
August Promotions
We’ve introduced a new way to promote your website or service – BabyWebNZ home page promotion. Take a look at the updated home page – www.babywebnz.org!
This spot gives parents information on companies offering discounts, sale items, vouchers, free samples, competitions or new products and services that are available.
Our home page gets 22% of all the hits on our two websites – www.babywebnz.org and www.babywebnz.org.nz, 21% of visitors start their browsing from our home page.
FREE Parent and Baby Class – infant health and development
You must be a BirthResources member and enroll in this class to be able to attend for free. Others can attend for a cost of $5 at the door. http://www.birthresources.org/display/BirthResources/Classes
As well as gaining more knowledge there will be time to catch up with others who may have been in your antenatal group. Drinks provided but please bring a plate of food to share.
This class is done after childbirth education classes and is aimed at anyone with a child less than 2 years old.
There is a baby changing area.
Date: 3d September 2011 1-4pm
Location: Island Bay Presbyterian Church Hall Wellington. Look for signs saying Birth Resources Class. 88 The Parade Island Bay, Wellington
Topics: Aimed at anyone with a child less than 2 years old, but parents-to-be may also find it of use. Topics: Understanding Baby’s development and needs including feeding, sleeping. Baby massage. Infant health and CPR. Parenting
We will be having Ali Voysey-Jensen from Tommee Tippee Tea Time Talks whom is a Child and Family Healthcare Consultant come talk about infant health and development.
BabyWebNZ promotion for this month via www.babywebnz.org
Tommee Tippee Tea Time Talk
In 2010 Tommee Tippee developed the Tea Time Talks to provide Kiwi parents with meaningful, practical information about early parenthood, supporting New Zealand families in making informed choices. Tommee Tippee’s Child & Family Healthcare Consultant will come to your coffee group, bring morning tea and facilitate an open discussion around any topic of your choosing (from pregnancy to Toddlers).This is not a Sales party. It is just a chance for Tommee Tippee to share the joys of parenting with you and your peers. The sessions are approx 1 hour and 15 minutes. Tommee Tippee fully supports the WHO code and advocates breast is best.
The Tommee Tippee Tea Time Talks are facilitated by Ali Voysey-Jensen our in-house Child & Family Healthcare Consultant who has over 30 years experience in the field of Paediatrics, Neonatal care and Lactation counselling. She is a mother of three ranging from 2 years to 20 years and is passionate about parenting.
To register visit their website: www.tommeetippee.co.nz or join them on Facebook, for latest news and updates click here
General Notes
Raising Children
Raising Children
With over 50 stories, covering the years from birth through to your child’s third birthday, Raising Children in New Zealand is an essential resource you’ll find yourself calling on time and time again.
http://www.raisingchildren.org.nz/ordering-the-dvd/
Upcoming events
ASG Parent and Child Show Auckland 2011 30 September – 2 October 2011 | ASB Showgrounds | 10am – 5pm daily.
http://www.parentandchildshow.co.nz/index.cfm/visit/auckland/auckland.html
Websites
What websites do you or your children like? Let us know and we will list them here:
Unique Baby Gifts
http://www.babyunique.co.nz
L.B.T. Leather Baby Shoes and Well Child Book Covers – both handmade in New Zealand by a mum of three children. You get to choose your own colours and designs for the shoes and fabric for the Well Child book covers. Every shoe is unique as you design it! Giftwrapping service available so you can send your order as a gift anywhere in the world.
Anna Munro – Tot Shots Family Portraits
http://www.totshots.co.nz
Beautiful, natural family portraits taken in your own home. Specialising in kids aged 0-5.
Pregnancy Exercise Classes
FITBumps combines education with strengthening, toning, cardiovascular and pilates based exercise to provide women with the most optimal health prior to their pregnancy and during their pregnancy. The programme can also be used postnatally. We are leaders in our field providing realistic, sensible exercises, wellness and nutritional guidelines which are just right for expectant mothers.
Kara Woskett Photography
http://www.karawoskett.co.nz
Fine art photographer based in Auckland specializing in pregnancy, newborns and babies. Creating stunning images that will be treasured forever.
Crying Over Spilt Milk
www.cryingoverspiltmilk.co.nz
Regional Coordinator
Gastric Reflux Support Network NZ for Parents of Infants and Children Charitable Trust (GRSNNZ) Phone (03) 3499 104 National Coordinator can be contacted on 0800 380 517 Mon-Sat 9am-9pm or (07) 855 9350
Midwives
Also several new find a Midwife listings have been added on http://www.babywebnz.org/display/BabyWebNZ/Find+a+Midwife
Advertise with us
Don’t forget to update your listings and banners if your information has changed. You can add pictures to your listings also. Renewal invoices have been sent out, if you have not received one and wish to renew for 2011 contact us.
In the last 6 months visits to BabyWebNZ came from more than 80 countries, with NZ and Australia dominating the list. A solid 83% of these have been new visitors. While 8% come via referring websites, the search engines stay the main source of incoming traffic, with almost 78% of all visitors coming to BabyWebNZ through Google’s “organic search” (the actual search results as opposed to the paid advertising placements).
As such having a text listing on BabyWebNZ increases your exposure to people who use search engines and influences your website’s “organic search” standings. Search engines love text and it is important to phrase your listing in a search engine friendly way – using the keywords and phrases that people are likely to use when looking for products or services that you provide.
At the same time people are staying on average 4 minutes on the page giving them plenty of time to notice images that remain a more attractive site for a human eye than text-only listings. Don’t forget that you can now add pictures to the listings themselves.
A banner gives you ability to place your advertising on the top-hit pages in categories different from the ones you product or service normally falls under. I print about 10,000 flyers every year to give out to midwives and health practices, if you would like flyers also please contact us.
BabyWebNZ.org advertisement: Directory for pregnancy, childbirth and parenting web sites.
You are getting this email because you either advertise with BabyWebNZ at the moment or have advertised in the past. Thank you for your support, I see people using BabyWebNZ every day and I hope advertising with BabyWebNZ attracts people to your products and services.
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Best Regards,
Helen Pulford
BabyWebNZ.org
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