Welcome to the New Zealand Multiple Birth Association
The New Zealand Multiple Birth Association Incorporated is the national body representing 22 local Multiple Birth clubs consisting of over 1500 families throughout New Zealand. There were almost 900 sets of twins and triplets born last year in New Zealand, and 11 sets of triplets were born to new mothers (from the 2009 census). In 2009, 161 mothers who gave birth to twins or triplets already had at least two other children. We aim to provide education and support to all of these families, through providing guidance and resources to their local multiple birth club.
Our objectives and how we meet them include:
- Providing information and advice to any individual directly involved with the care, raising and well being of a multiple birth through resources about issues relating specifically to raising multiples.
- Providing a communication medium for existing clubs for parents of multiple birth children through a website, quarterly newsletter and annual conference.
- Providing advocacy for national issues that face multiples and their families in the areas including social, health and education needs.
If you are expecting, or raising multiples, the NZMBA can help you.
