LunaBloom, at 740 Main Road in Stoke, Nelson, is a massage and support practice for pregnant women, new mothers and their families. The owner is a qualified massage therapist and midwife, and the website says the practice offers antenatal and postnatal massage, along with relaxation, sport and deep tissue massage for the whole family. Other offers include workshops, women's circles, postpartum mother honouring and sacred birth story sealing ceremonies. Customers mention belly binding and a postpartum closing ceremony. The practice also sells keepsake jewellery made to order from memories such as breastmilk, a first tooth, a lock of hair or a fabric. Postpartum support includes First Light Flower Essences of New Zealand. The clinic is baby friendly, and babies up to three months old are welcome. Bookings are made through the website.
Reviewers describe the owner as caring, accommodating and calming. One says relaxing massages helped with circulation and tiredness through pregnancy, and another says the support continued into labour and the postpartum period. Another describes a second postpartum experience where extra support made a real difference after family could not travel from overseas. Our pick in Stoke for pregnancy and postpartum care with a midwife's experience behind it.