{"id":71004,"date":"2025-10-11T00:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71004\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T00:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:15:10","slug":"government-backs-three%e2%80%91day-hospital-or-birthing-unit-stay-for-new-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71004\/","title":{"rendered":"Government backs three\u2011day hospital or birthing unit stay for new mothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/ministry-of-health\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/ministry-of-health\/\">Ministry of Health<\/a> had been told to work with Health New Zealand on preparing for the change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Costello would be the minister responsible for the bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">She described it as a \u201cpractical and compassionate step\u201d that put women and their wellbeing at the centre of the health system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe recognise that <a href=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"\">childbirth is different for every woman<\/a>, but no one should be made to feel they have to leave hospital or a birthing unit before they are ready.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBy guaranteeing every woman up to three days to rest, recover and bond with their baby, women will have the choice to be where they feel most comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The Three-Day Postnatal Stay Amendment Bill was put forward by National MP for Tukituki Catherine Wedd. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell   \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The Three-Day Postnatal Stay Amendment Bill was put forward by National MP for Tukituki Catherine Wedd. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell   <\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Wedd, the MP for Tukituki and a mother of four, said she was proud the Government had adopted her bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOnce implemented, the change will make a real and lasting difference for mothers, giving them the time and support they need in those precious early days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Health had been told to work with Health New Zealand on preparing for the change.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,4763,22059,23748,32319,16574,56330,27703,4731,2082,266,42,2241,5840,4754,30510,117,43,691,2069,1361,165,1529,56329,40,38,41,39,8443,29415,1533],"class_list":["post-71004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-allow","tag-babies","tag-backing","tag-backs","tag-bill","tag-birthing","tag-born","tag-days","tag-for","tag-government","tag-headlines","tag-hospital","tag-least","tag-members","tag-mothers","tag-new","tag-news","tag-or","tag-stay","tag-that","tag-their","tag-three","tag-threeday","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-unit","tag-units","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}