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Kaniwa Kupenga-Tamarama
Registered Midwife & Certified Life Coach
Nau mai, haere mai ki tēnei wāhi haumaru
Welcome to the Kia Kaha Māmā Website!
It is no coincidence that you have come across Kia Kaha Māmā, as it indicates that you are looking for a bit more tautoko (support) during your journey as a Māmā.
I am a registered Midwife in Aotearoa New Zealand and have also attained my Life Coaching Diploma.
I am an enrolled Masters Student at AUT University and during 2023 - 2024 will be working on my thesis.
Kia Kaha Māmā is brought to you with the enrichment of blending 15 years of clinical experience within Midwifery, alongside my own personal experiences as a Māmā and wahine with a strong upbringing in traditional Mātauranga Māori and Tikanga.
I offer wahine a holistic wellbeing coaching service that specializes in empowering your Mana, by connecting you with your divinity and supporting your personal development through the lens of the Goddess and Healer embodied within. No matter how many times we enter the sacred realm of hapūtanga (pregnancy), we walk between physical and spiritual worlds, a gift only wāhine as 'Te Whare Tangata' have been bestowed through our wombs.
What we (wahine) do and experience during pregnancy - post birth, and raising our tamariki will impact upon our whānau for the next 20-40 years or more! Yes that's right māmā, read that again.
Within the health taiao, we refer this to the first 2000 days of life for tamariki, which starts at conception ant through to their 5th birthday. This is also referred to fetal programming and origin of disease theory, science of epigenetics and population health.
Remember, reinstate and revitalize Māmā that you are Tapu whilst Hapū. Our pēpi are born tapu and our tamariki remain tapu. Therefore everyone is tapu. Everyone is born with mana. Wāhine have the ability to create life and thus are celebrated and treasured as powerful beings that are bestowed as the architects and guardians of whakapapa.
The Kia Kaha Māmā program envisions to empower all wāhine who enter the realm of hapūtanga, are strong, healthy and confident to birth their pēpi and to care for them in a protective and positive manner that strengthens attachment and bonding, thus promoting infant wellbeing and whānau ora. Through attaining positive stress relief strategies, we welcome a new worldview to navigate daily life challenges.
Contact me to learn more and start your journey to reclaim your personal power, self-love and self-investment practices, empowering you to build resilience and create, gestate, transform, birth and nurture without fear.
Mā te Io e manaaki, Kaniwa xo
Services I Specialize in;
Kaniwa gently showed me after the birth of my son that I was in a relationship that did not value me, as a partner or as the mother of our new baby. She went above and beyond, cooking me food to eat, after I had given birth and had returned home. I had no family support and my (ex) partner worked on the farm. I learnt that I'm the architect of my own and my baby's future. I command my own value. Kaniwa sparked strength into me and she taught me how to exit safely a relationship riddled with domestic abuse, she kept in touch until I was safe with my family. I will never forget what you have done for me= and my baby.
CJ, Australia
Kaniwa is the “Kaha” in Kia Kaha Mama. She reminds me every day to step into my Kaha, my Mana and embrace all there is to being Wahine Māori. Sometimes we forget about the strength that we have, but Kaniwa will make sure you never forget you have it! Kia Kaha Mama embraces living life purposefully!
Cheanne, Gisborne
After having a traumatic birth as a 16 year old Mama to a prem baby, I didn't know that birth could be so EMPOWERING. She helped me to navigate through my pregnancy, I genuinely felt cared for and so did my friends and clients I knew who had been cared for by her too. Kaniwa helped me to see the power within me and change the way I had looked at birth. My journey with her, provided me with a healing birth experience, which directly impacted upon me as a Mama and allowed me to deeply bond with my daughter.