Recommend your Midwife!!
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Topic: Recommend your Midwife!!
Posted By: kabe
Subject: Recommend your Midwife!!
Date Posted: 12 June 2010 at 8:05pm
I've seen this on another forum and thought it would be a good thread on OB. State the region you're in and the name of your MW, if you'd recommend them.  It might help others choose a MW. Please DON'T mention the names of those you wouldn't recommend.
I'll start. I'm on Auckland's NS and I had Debbie Greenwood from Maternity Associates. She was wonderful, particularly with her post-natal care. ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: Raspberryjam
Date Posted: 12 June 2010 at 8:56pm
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Mine is Helena Humphries from Hibiscus coast Midwives - shes awesome - no bulls**t - had three babes of her own and is just a really nice chic
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 12 June 2010 at 10:28pm
Michelle Vincent from Ngaio medical centre in Wellington (does Northern Suburbs). She is just fantastic! The whole time 
TBH she was my 10th choice as I had NO idea about picking a midwife! But I am so glad I got her!! Lots of experience and a hospital mw and an independent. Has 2 kids of her own... My back up was Rachel McTavish, she was great to and her husband is a diabetes nurse. She was also my MIL midwife for her last baby (who is now 11) so lots of experience too! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: ALittleLoopy
Date Posted: 12 June 2010 at 10:59pm
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Kim Porthouse from Otaki Midwifery, does any birth from home to palmy hospital and covers most of manawatu i believe...
only snag is she seems to always be running a lil late but then she will always spend extra time with you if she needs to/you need her to, our appointments are always over an hour
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Posted By: MamaT
Date Posted: 13 June 2010 at 9:38am
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PALMERSTON NORTH - Megan Holloway from Heretaunga Midwifery. I couldn't have wished for a better midwife, and bonus, she trained as a nurse before changing to midwifery so has a lot of great knowledge and experience. I honestly believe that if it weren't for her my birth would have turned out a whole lot different -------------  
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Posted By: popcorn
Date Posted: 13 June 2010 at 3:48pm
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PAPAKURA/PUKEKOHE: Danielle North
Can't recommend her highly enough, she was brilliant! |
Posted By: troutpout
Date Posted: 13 June 2010 at 3:50pm
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LOWER HUTT
Julie Thompson - she was just fabulous in every possible way. She'll discharge me next week and I'll miss her  ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Emmi_
Date Posted: 13 June 2010 at 4:43pm
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WELLINGTON (northern - Jville to Karoriish areas)
Margaret Hadley, from Capital City Midwives. She is very onto it (very experienced, was a nurse before a MW) she can be quite blunt, but you know where you stand with her and she is more than capable. If I have my next baby here I will be looking at having her again. ------------- 
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Posted By: escadachic
Date Posted: 13 June 2010 at 4:45pm
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Wellington(Johnsonville to Pukerua Bay)
My midwife was through Birth Options and her name is: Victoria Panteleeva. Awesome midwife!!! Can't recommend her enough! -------------   
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 13 June 2010 at 5:44pm
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Emma Margret was my first choice but told me she wasn't taking first timers ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Renee & Lauren
Date Posted: 13 June 2010 at 8:38pm
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Hutt Valley / Whitbyish area - Christine Griffiths. I can't rave about her enough she was just awesome. Has been a MW / nurse for over 20 yrs knows what she is doing and doesn't pressure you to do anything you don't want to do. ------------- http://lilyslim.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: magoogoo
Date Posted: 14 June 2010 at 9:29am
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WELLINGTON: Michelle Vincent - based at Ngaio Medical centre, does Northern suburbs. She came highly recommended to us and so far (I'm 30 weeks and high risk) she has been FANTASTIC! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: JoJames
Date Posted: 14 June 2010 at 3:47pm
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Tauranga/Mount/Papamoa/Te Puke
Andrea Smith, brilliant supportive MW, long appointments, fully engaged in your care the whole time. And Linda Steadman who delivered DS2, so brilliant, she does home antenatal visits and have had friends who highly recommend her. ------------- http://www.alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 14 June 2010 at 5:18pm
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West Auckland
Angela Scott, Baby on the Way Midwives is AWESOME. Very thorough and just amazing while you are labouring. She does homebirth/home waterbirth as well aad her back-up Rochelle is just as amazing and lovely. |
Posted By: kymme
Date Posted: 14 June 2010 at 8:56pm
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Midwives Independent:
heidi copland 027 226 6655 / (09) 420 7931. im in west auckland im not to sure how far she covers but do know she will be there if your delivering anywhere below :) helensville birthing centre waitakere hospital northshore hospital highly recommend her,shes been my midwife for both my last pregnancy and current,lovely lady couldnt ask for a better person to be in the care of during pregnancy and all:) -------------   http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 14 June 2010 at 9:10pm
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AUCKLAND - Waiuku/Pukekohe Cathi Wintle She is fantastic!! She saw me through both pregnancies and will see my through my next :) ------------- |
Posted By: Richie
Date Posted: 15 June 2010 at 9:08am
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Christchurch - Halswell Village Midwives - Vicki De Grut.
She was just awesome! Was recommended to me by a friend who also loved her! I still miss her She was just so easy to get along with. I could txt her whenever I had a question and she was always quick to txt/ring me back. Will definitely be using her for #2!-------------  
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Posted By: Shally
Date Posted: 15 June 2010 at 6:41pm
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I have to recommend Bunny Cummings in West Auckland! =) I haven't had my baby yet but she's just been awesome the whole way through my pregnancy! Plus i've heard other mums talk about her and never anything bad!
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Posted By: mrsturtle
Date Posted: 16 June 2010 at 10:16pm
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Dunedin ladies - I would reccomend Jennie Crawshaw She is fantastic (or atleast i think so)
And if you want a student id reccomed Jane (littlebug from here) She is great too! |
Posted By: MyLilSquishy
Date Posted: 16 June 2010 at 11:44pm
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DUNEDIN - Heather LaDell and Adrienne Mulqueen. can't speak highly enough of them.
and i 2nd Jane (littlebug) as a student midwife. she is so lovely
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Posted By: cole88
Date Posted: 17 June 2010 at 7:54pm
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HAWKES BAY- teresa cornes best i coould have asked for wonderful! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: pickle
Date Posted: 17 June 2010 at 9:12pm
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Rhondda Kerrins in Auckland, based in Grey Lynn. She delivered both my kids and i wouldnt of done it without her, she is AMAZING. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: BugTeeny
Date Posted: 18 June 2010 at 2:00pm
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TAURANGA - Leigh O'neill from Bay Births in Bethlehem.
I've had her for both my pregnancies and she's fantastic. Really laid back, but incredibly switched on at the same time. She's always made me feel comfortable and at ease with any "bumps" along the way. Leigh was away when I delivered Hannah, so I had Pat Shanks, who I would rate incredibly highly, too. In fact, ANY of the ladies at Bay Births. They're all like-minded and work really well together as a supportive team. ------------- 
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Posted By: kabe
Date Posted: 21 June 2010 at 7:36pm
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Keep the recommendations coming. this is great! ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com">
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Posted By: mummymonster
Date Posted: 21 June 2010 at 7:39pm
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Thanks for starting this kabe.
I so would NOT recommend my MW. FX I'll need this info soon  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kabe
Date Posted: 07 July 2010 at 7:26pm
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Bump! ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com">
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Posted By: Nothing
Date Posted: 07 July 2010 at 9:13pm
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NELSON
Lynn Hilden, an independant midwife who works out of the motueka birthing unit. Fantastic lady, orginally from England. She only takes on 2 or 3 ladies a month so has lots of time to see you. Very cruisey- into natural birthing but will take on anyone. I will be ringing her when we decide to have another one. http://www.nelsonmidwives.co.nz/midwife.php?id=14 ------------- 
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Posted By: Lizze
Date Posted: 07 July 2010 at 9:40pm
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CHRISTCHURCH - Jacqui Newell from Birth Choice ------------- 
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Posted By: Anonymous55
Date Posted: 08 July 2010 at 10:49am
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****INVERCARGILL / SOUTHLAND****
Liz Whyte & Terryl McDowall (they work together) They have maximum experience and both are just so lovely & trustworthy!!! Great for homebirth, too!! |
Posted By: DaisyBoo2
Date Posted: 17 July 2010 at 1:10pm
| This is really helpful, thank you all, if there are any other recommendations for the Wellington/Tawa area then please post :) |
Posted By: DaisyBoo2
Date Posted: 17 July 2010 at 1:24pm
| Does anyone know Christine Griffiths cell no or pager? Or Rachel Mctavish's? |
Posted By: Nellsmc
Date Posted: 18 July 2010 at 8:33am
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Jen Hubbard from Aroha Midwifery - cover Morrinsville/Te Aroha/Paeroa (not sure of exact areas)
She is just fantastic!  -------------   
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Posted By: Renee & Lauren
Date Posted: 19 July 2010 at 7:23am
Christine is 0-21-037 8656 ------------- http://lilyslim.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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DaisyBoo2 wrote:Posted By: DaisyBoo2
Date Posted: 19 July 2010 at 8:05am
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Posted By: rachaels
Date Posted: 19 July 2010 at 9:23am
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WEST AUCKLAND - Gail Kiss from Henderson (can't remember the name of the practice). She delivers at Waitakere Hospital and home births.
She's got something like 12 years of obstetric emergency experience and she's very onto it from the medical perspective. I feel very safe in her hands. She's also caring, loves to exclaim over beautiful bumps and has a wicked sense of humour! If anyone has a need to contact her give me a PM. |
Posted By: kabe
Date Posted: 19 August 2010 at 11:52am
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Posted By: Emmi_
Date Posted: 19 August 2010 at 5:27pm
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I thought I would start a list so you can see who is in each area a bit easier... I hope thats ok Kabe?? Ive tried to put them in order of top to bottom (of NZ), I might not have got them in the right places though.. AUCKLAND North Shore: Debbie Greenwood from Maternity Associates. She was wonderful, particularly with her post-natal care. Papakura/Pukekohe: Danielle North, Can't recommend her highly enough, she was brilliant! Waiuku/Pukekohe: Cathi Wintle, She is fantastic!! She saw me through both pregnancies and will see my through my next :) Helena Humphries from Hibiscus coast Midwives - shes awesome - no bulls**t - had three babes of her own and is just a really nice chic West Auckland: Angela Scott, Baby on the Way Midwives is AWESOME. Very thorough and just amazing while you are labouring. She does homebirth/home waterbirth as well aad her back-up Rochelle is just as amazing and lovely. West Auckland: Midwives Independent - heidi copland 027 226 6655 / (09) 420 7931. Covers helensville birthing centre, waitakere hospital, northshore hospital. highly recommend her,shes been my midwife for both my last pregnancy and current,lovely lady couldnt ask for a better person to be in the care of during pregnancy and all:) West Auckland: Bunny Cummings, I haven't had my baby yet but she's just been awesome the whole way through my pregnancy! Plus i've heard other mums talk about her and never anything bad! West Auckland: Gail Kiss from Henderson (can't remember the name of the practice). She delivers at Waitakere Hospital and home births. She's got something like 12 years of obstetric emergency experience and she's very onto it from the medical perspective. I feel very safe in her hands. She's also caring, loves to exclaim over beautiful bumps and has a wicked sense of humour! Grey Lynn: Rhondda Kerrins. She delivered both my kids and i wouldnt of done it without her, she is AMAZING.
TAURANGA Bethlehem: Leigh O'neill from Bay Births. I've had her for both my pregnancies and she's fantastic. Really laid back, but incredibly switched on at the same time. Tauranga/Mount/Papamoa/Te Puke: Andrea Smith, brilliant supportive MW, long appointments, fully engaged in your care the whole time.
TE AROHA Jen Hubbard from Aroha Midwifery - cover Morrinsville/Te Aroha/Paeroa (not sure of exact areas). She is just fantastic!
HAWKES BAY teresa cornes best i coould have asked for wonderful!
MANAWATU Otaki: Kim Porthouse from Otaki Midwifery, does any birth from home to palmy hospital and covers most of manawatu Palmerston North: Megan Holloway from Heretaunga Midwifery. I couldn't have wished for a better midwife, and bonus, she trained as a nurse before changing to midwifery so has a lot of great knowledge and experience.
WELLINGTON Northern Suburbs: Michelle Vincent from Ngaio medical centre. She is just fantastic! The whole time. Michelle Vincent - based at Ngaio Medical centre, does Northern suburbs. She came highly recommended to us and so far (I'm 30 weeks and high risk) she has been FANTASTIC! Northern Suburbs: Margaret Hadley, from Capital City Midwives. She is very onto it (very experienced, was a nurse before a MW) she can be quite blunt, but you know where you stand with her and she is more than capable. Northern Suburbs (Johnsonville to Pukerua Bay): My midwife was through Birth Options and her name is: Victoria Panteleeva. Awesome midwife!!! Can't recommend her enough! Hutt Valley/Whitbyish area: Christine Griffiths. I can't rave about her enough she was just awesome. Has been a MW / nurse for over 20 yrs knows what she is doing and doesn't pressure you to do anything you don't want to do. Lower Hutt: Julie Thompson - she was just fabulous in every possible way.
NELSON
CHRISTCHURCH Halswell Village Midwives - Vicki De Grut. She was just awesome! Was recommended to me by a friend who also loved her! I still miss her. She was just so easy to get along with. I could txt her whenever I had a question and she was always quick to txt/ring me back. Will definitely be using her for #2! Jacqui Newell from Birth Choice
DUNEDIN Jennie Crawshaw, She is fantastic (or atleast i think so). And if you want a student id reccomed Jane (littlebug from here) She is great too! Heather LaDell and Adrienne Mulqueen. can't speak highly enough of them.
INVERCARGILL / SOUTHLAND -------------
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Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 19 August 2010 at 7:13pm
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TIMARU
Dianne Cox (independant) This is my first and she's always fielding anxious phone calls from me, and last week i burst into her office to ask tearfully if she can use her heartbeat magic stick because im convinced somethings wrong and she did straight away without fuss and even ordered blood tests that im sure i didnt need but reassured me. Shes lovely and friendly and spends lots of time on you and i think she's been practicing for over 20 years. |
Posted By: ChrisW
Date Posted: 20 August 2010 at 12:33am
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Tauranga
Another one for Leigh O'Neill at Bay Births - absolutely lovely, and you can see that she is well respected by the staff at Tauranga Hospital. ------------- http://pregnancy.baby-gaga.com/">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: KatzWtgn
Date Posted: 20 August 2010 at 1:41pm
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AUCKLAND:
The Tui Team (Megan / Cherry) at Birthcare Parnell. They were both absolutely fantastic, reassuring, great follow up, available for me at any time, funny, really good at relaxing me, but also taking questions/concerns seriously and not making me feel stupid. ------------- [IMG]http://lb3f.lilypie.com/rGG7p13.png] |
Posted By: Brilee
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 11:44am
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Has anyone used Catherine Overfield? Shes a howick midwife? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bexee
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 5:04pm
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TAUPO
Sonia Ransom is an amazing midwife. Perfect for me as a first time mum. Fabulous at the birth - the minute she walked into the room I knew everything was okay. |
Posted By: kabe
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 7:27pm
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Great idea putting them in order Emmi_! Here's the updated list:
AUCKLAND North Shore: Debbie Greenwood from Maternity Associates. She was wonderful, particularly with her post-natal care. Central:The Tui Team (Megan / Cherry) at Birthcare Parnell. They were both absolutely fantastic, reassuring, great follow up, available for me at any time, funny, really good at relaxing me, but also taking questions/concerns seriously and not making me feel stupid. Papakura/Pukekohe: Danielle North, Can't recommend her highly enough, she was brilliant! Waiuku/Pukekohe: Cathi Wintle, She is fantastic!! She saw me through both pregnancies and will see my through my next :) Helena Humphries from Hibiscus coast Midwives - shes awesome - no bulls**t - had three babes of her own and is just a really nice chic. Is licensed for NSH and Waitak too West Auckland: Angela Scott, Baby on the Way Midwives is AWESOME. Very thorough and just amazing while you are labouring. She does homebirth/home waterbirth as well aad her back-up Rochelle is just as amazing and lovely. West Auckland: Midwives Independent - heidi copland 027 226 6655 (09) 420 7931 Covers helensville birthing centre, waitakere hospital, northshore hospital. highly recommend her,shes been my midwife for both my last pregnancy and current,lovely lady couldnt ask for a better person to be in the care of during pregnancy and all:) West Auckland: Bunny Cummings, I haven't had my baby yet but she's just been awesome the whole way through my pregnancy! Plus i've heard other mums talk about her and never anything bad! West Auckland: Bunny Cummings, I haven't had my baby yet but she's just been awesome the whole way through my pregnancy! Plus i've heard other mums talk about her and never anything bad! West Auckland: Gail Kiss from Henderson (can't remember the name of the practice). She delivers at Waitakere Hospital and home births. She's got something like 12 years of obstetric emergency experience and she's very onto it from the medical perspective. I feel very safe in her hands. She's also caring, loves to exclaim over beautiful bumps and has a wicked sense of humour! Grey Lynn: Rhondda Kerrins. She delivered both my kids and i wouldnt of done it without her, she is AMAZING. TAURANGA Bethlehem: Leigh O'neill from Bay Births. I've had her for both my pregnancies and she's fantastic. Really laid back, but incredibly switched on at the same time. She's always made me feel comfortable and at ease with any "bumps" along the way. Leigh was away when I delivered Hannah, so I had Pat Shanks, who I would rate incredibly highly, too. In fact, ANY of the ladies at Bay Births. They're all like-minded and work really well together as a supportive team. Tauranga/Mount/Papamoa/Te Puke: Andrea Smith, brilliant supportive MW, long appointments, fully engaged in your care the whole time. And Linda Steadman who delivered DS2, so brilliant, she does home antenatal visits and have had friends who highly recommend her. TE AROHA : Jen Hubbard from Aroha Midwifery - cover Morrinsville/Te Aroha/Paeroa (not sure of exact areas). She is just fantastic! TAUPO Sonia Ransom is an amazing midwife. Perfect for me as a first time mum. Fabulous at the birth - the minute she walked into the room I knew everything was okay. HAWKES BAY teresa cornes best i could have asked for wonderful! MANAWATU Otaki: Kim Porthouse from Otaki Midwifery, does any birth from home to palmy hospital and covers most of manawatu Palmerston North: Megan Holloway from Heretaunga Midwifery. I couldn't have wished for a better midwife, and bonus, she trained as a nurse before changing to midwifery so has a lot of great knowledge and experience. WELLINGTON Northern Suburbs: Michelle Vincent from Ngaio medical centre. She is just fantastic! The whole time. Michelle Vincent - based at Ngaio Medical centre, does Northern suburbs. She came highly recommended to us and so far (I'm 30 weeks and high risk) she has been FANTASTIC! Northern Suburbs: Margaret Hadley, from Capital City Midwives. She is very onto it (very experienced, was a nurse before a MW) she can be quite blunt, but you know where you stand with her and she is more than capable. Northern Suburbs (Johnsonville to Pukerua Bay): My midwife was through Birth Options and her name is: Victoria Panteleeva. Awesome midwife!!! Can't recommend her enough! Hutt Valley/Whitbyish area: Christine Griffiths. I can't rave about her enough she was just awesome. Has been a MW / nurse for over 20 yrs knows what she is doing and doesn't pressure you to do anything you don't want to do. Lower Hutt: Julie Thompson - she was just fabulous in every possible way. NELSON Lynn Hilden, an independant midwife who works out of the motueka birthing unit. Fantastic lady, orginally from England. She only takes on 2 or 3 ladies a month so has lots of time to see you. Very cruisey- into natural birthing but will take on anyone. I will be ringing her when we decide to have another one. http://www.nelsonmidwives.co.nz/midwife.php?id=14 CHRISTCHURCH Halswell Village Midwives - Vicki De Grut. She was just awesome! Was recommended to me by a friend who also loved her! I still miss her. She was just so easy to get along with. I could txt her whenever I had a question and she was always quick to txt/ring me back. Will definitely be using her for #2! Jacqui Newell from Birth Choice TIMARU Dianne Cox (independant) .This is my first and she's always fielding anxious phone calls from me, and last week i burst into her office to ask tearfully if she can use her heartbeat magic stick because im convinced somethings wrong and she did straight away without fuss and even ordered blood tests that im sure i didnt need but reassured me. Shes lovely and friendly and spends lots of time on you and i think she's been practicing for over 20 years DUNEDIN Jennie Crawshaw, She is fantastic (or atleast i think so). And if you want a student id reccomed Jane (littlebug from here) She is great too! Heather LaDell and Adrienne Mulqueen. can't speak highly enough of them. And i 2nd Jane (littlebug) as a student midwife. she is so lovely INVERCARGILL / SOUTHLAND Liz Whyte & Terryl McDowall (they work together) They have maximum experience and both are just so lovely & trustworthy!!! Great for homebirth, too!! ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com">
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Posted By: Emmecat
Date Posted: 26 August 2010 at 4:59pm
J'VILLE/TAWA- another Michelle Vincent fan. Kind, supportive and extremely open to all sorts of ways of birthing. already 1 million times better than my first mw!  -------------   http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: TheKelly
Date Posted: 26 August 2010 at 7:31pm
hey , I used her :-) and shes on my midwife team this time too (they have a team of 4, Debbie Ritz, Helen Calpan , Catherine Overfield and Irene Moody ) I had her all the way through my last pregnancy , and she was good, I found her very nice, unfortunatly she wasn't at my son's birth (she was off for the weekend ) but a lady in my coffee group ended up with her during labour and she says she was very good ,calm , and reassuring etc I have Debbie this time, mainly cos thats who I had wanted when I was pregnant with Ty , and Catherine is booked up :-) Hope that helps ! ------------- 
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Posted By: jacobsmummy
Date Posted: 28 August 2010 at 7:39pm
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INVERCARGILL
I had Louise Hammond for 2nd pregnancy (isabella) She was a awesome midwife. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: kabe
Date Posted: 11 October 2010 at 7:23pm
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Posted By: 4thtymlucky
Date Posted: 11 October 2010 at 7:53pm
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Pukekohe based but can do other areas depending on distance: One of the best homebirth midwives out there: RUTH DAVISON. She encouraged me with my VBA2C and we had a planned HB and are now having another HB for this bubs. Partly named my son after her as a tribute to what she helped me to achieve
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Posted By: Bambino
Date Posted: 12 October 2010 at 8:58pm
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Hi everyone,
I have just decided to jump ship from my OB to use a midwife as my LMC ... BUT I am six months in and due in Jan! So, does can anyone recommend a midwife in east/central auckland? Cheers all Bx |
Posted By: catisla
Date Posted: 12 October 2010 at 11:04pm
I second this! Victoria delivered DD for me and is my midwife again for this baby ------------- |
Posted By: missynz
Date Posted: 15 October 2010 at 4:43pm
| id like to recommend my wonderful midwife,im in palmerston north and have kendra mackey as my midwife..shes wonderful and totally recommend her |
Posted By: ShanzD
Date Posted: 16 October 2010 at 6:01pm
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GREAT LIST Anymore for PAPAKURA/SOUTH AUCKLAND? wouldn't recommend my last MW group either :( ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: newme
Date Posted: 25 October 2010 at 1:08pm
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**Bump** and updated list
AUCKLAND North Shore: Debbie Greenwood from Maternity Associates. She was wonderful, particularly with her post-natal care. Central:The Tui Team (Megan / Cherry) at Birthcare Parnell. They were both absolutely fantastic, reassuring, great follow up, available for me at any time, funny, really good at relaxing me, but also taking questions/concerns seriously and not making me feel stupid. Papakura/Pukekohe: Danielle North, Can't recommend her highly enough, she was brilliant! Waiuku/Pukekohe: Cathi Wintle, She is fantastic!! She saw me through both pregnancies and will see my through my next :) Pukekohe: RUTH DAVISON. She encouraged me with my VBA2C and we had a planned HB and are now having another HB for this bubs. Partly named my son after her as a tribute to what she helped me to achieve Helena Humphries from Hibiscus coast Midwives - shes awesome - no bulls**t - had three babes of her own and is just a really nice chic. Is licensed for NSH and Waitak too West Auckland: Angela Scott, Baby on the Way Midwives is AWESOME. Very thorough and just amazing while you are labouring. She does homebirth/home waterbirth as well aad her back-up Rochelle is just as amazing and lovely. West Auckland: Midwives Independent - heidi copland 027 226 6655 (09) 420 7931 Covers helensville birthing centre, waitakere hospital, northshore hospital. highly recommend her,shes been my midwife for both my last pregnancy and current,lovely lady couldnt ask for a better person to be in the care of during pregnancy and all:) West Auckland: Bunny Cummings, I haven't had my baby yet but she's just been awesome the whole way through my pregnancy! Plus i've heard other mums talk about her and never anything bad! West Auckland: Bunny Cummings, I haven't had my baby yet but she's just been awesome the whole way through my pregnancy! Plus i've heard other mums talk about her and never anything bad! West Auckland: Gail Kiss from Henderson (can't remember the name of the practice). She delivers at Waitakere Hospital and home births. She's got something like 12 years of obstetric emergency experience and she's very onto it from the medical perspective. I feel very safe in her hands. She's also caring, loves to exclaim over beautiful bumps and has a wicked sense of humour! Grey Lynn: Rhondda Kerrins. She delivered both my kids and i wouldnt of done it without her, she is AMAZING. Howick: Catherine Overfield. I had her all the way through my last pregnancy , and she was good, I found her very nice, unfortunatly she wasn't at my son's birth (she was off for the weekend ) but a lady in my coffee group ended up with her during labour and she says she was very good ,calm , and reassuring etc TAURANGA Bethlehem: Leigh O'neill from Bay Births. I've had her for both my pregnancies and she's fantastic. Really laid back, but incredibly switched on at the same time. She's always made me feel comfortable and at ease with any "bumps" along the way. Leigh was away when I delivered Hannah, so I had Pat Shanks, who I would rate incredibly highly, too. In fact, ANY of the ladies at Bay Births. They're all like-minded and work really well together as a supportive team. Tauranga/Mount/Papamoa/Te Puke: Andrea Smith, brilliant supportive MW, long appointments, fully engaged in your care the whole time. And Linda Steadman who delivered DS2, so brilliant, she does home antenatal visits and have had friends who highly recommend her. TE AROHA : Jen Hubbard from Aroha Midwifery - cover Morrinsville/Te Aroha/Paeroa (not sure of exact areas). She is just fantastic! TAUPO Sonia Ransom is an amazing midwife. Perfect for me as a first time mum. Fabulous at the birth - the minute she walked into the room I knew everything was okay. HAWKES BAY teresa cornes best i could have asked for wonderful! MANAWATU Otaki: Kim Porthouse from Otaki Midwifery, does any birth from home to palmy hospital and covers most of manawatu Palmerston North: Megan Holloway from Heretaunga Midwifery. I couldn't have wished for a better midwife, and bonus, she trained as a nurse before changing to midwifery so has a lot of great knowledge and experience. Palmerston North: id like to recommend my wonderful midwife,im in palmerston north and have kendra mackey as my midwife..shes wonderful and totally recommend her WELLINGTON Northern Suburbs: Michelle Vincent from Ngaio medical centre. She is just fantastic! The whole time. Michelle Vincent - based at Ngaio Medical centre, does Northern suburbs. She came highly recommended to us and so far (I'm 30 weeks and high risk) she has been FANTASTIC! -another Michelle Vincent fan. Kind, supportive and extremely open to all sorts of ways of birthing. already 1 million times better than my first mw Northern Suburbs: Margaret Hadley, from Capital City Midwives. She is very onto it (very experienced, was a nurse before a MW) she can be quite blunt, but you know where you stand with her and she is more than capable. Northern Suburbs (Johnsonville to Pukerua Bay): My midwife was through Birth Options and her name is: Victoria Panteleeva. Awesome midwife!!! Can't recommend her enough! -I second this! Victoria delivered DD for me and is my midwife again for this baby Hutt Valley/Whitbyish area: Christine Griffiths. I can't rave about her enough she was just awesome. Has been a MW / nurse for over 20 yrs knows what she is doing and doesn't pressure you to do anything you don't want to do. Lower Hutt: Julie Thompson - she was just fabulous in every possible way. NELSON Lynn Hilden, an independant midwife who works out of the motueka birthing unit. Fantastic lady, orginally from England. She only takes on 2 or 3 ladies a month so has lots of time to see you. Very cruisey- into natural birthing but will take on anyone. I will be ringing her when we decide to have another one. http://www.nelsonmidwives.co.nz/midwife.php?id=14 CHRISTCHURCH Halswell Village Midwives - Vicki De Grut. She was just awesome! Was recommended to me by a friend who also loved her! I still miss her. She was just so easy to get along with. I could txt her whenever I had a question and she was always quick to txt/ring me back. Will definitely be using her for #2! Jacqui Newell from Birth Choice TIMARU Dianne Cox (independant) .This is my first and she's always fielding anxious phone calls from me, and last week i burst into her office to ask tearfully if she can use her heartbeat magic stick because im convinced somethings wrong and she did straight away without fuss and even ordered blood tests that im sure i didnt need but reassured me. Shes lovely and friendly and spends lots of time on you and i think she's been practicing for over 20 years DUNEDIN Jennie Crawshaw, She is fantastic (or atleast i think so). And if you want a student id reccomed Jane (littlebug from here) She is great too! Heather LaDell and Adrienne Mulqueen. can't speak highly enough of them. And i 2nd Jane (littlebug) as a student midwife. she is so lovely INVERCARGILL / SOUTHLAND Liz Whyte & Terryl McDowall (they work together) They have maximum experience and both are just so lovely & trustworthy!!! Great for homebirth, too!! Louise Hammond. I had Louise Hammond for 2nd pregnancy (isabella) She was a awesome midwife. |
Posted By: girly_girl
Date Posted: 28 October 2010 at 8:07pm
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HAMILTON
Colleen van der Laan, works out of Waterford. She is fantastic!! A lactation consultant as well, and an experienced NICU nurse as well. She was my sister's MW as well, I couldn't recommend her highly enough! ------------- 
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Posted By: littlepickle
Date Posted: 31 October 2010 at 2:05pm
| Can anyone recommend a midwife in Wellington doing the Southern suburbs? My partner and I have just found out we were pregnant a few weeks ago and moved to Island Bay last week - I'm feeling a bit lost as to where to start looking! |
Posted By: karenb_chch
Date Posted: 02 November 2010 at 3:38pm
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I can highly recommend Wendy Walton of Midwifery Associates in Chch. Bubs isn't born yet, but the level of care I've received to date is fantastic - I can't rave about her enough. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Outdoorjunkie
Date Posted: 02 November 2010 at 9:19pm
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Hi
New to the site and new to this preggie thing. This is a whole different world. My body is totally changed and I am only 7 weeks. Has anyone got any feeback on Mary Campbell as a midwife? |
Posted By: Panda289
Date Posted: 09 November 2010 at 9:10am
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bump for Jayztar, i have got Margaret Hadley and going to see her today. First impressions on the phone is that she is very nice. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Bee2010
Date Posted: 10 November 2010 at 3:03pm
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Waihi / Katikati
Belinda Beetham and Margaret Searancke are totally awesome. Margaret was my MW and the Birth was a lot easier with her. -------------   Angel Babe in our  - 07/08
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Posted By: Luckymama23
Date Posted: 10 November 2010 at 4:31pm
| Does anyone have any more recommendations on the North Shore please?? |
Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 23 November 2010 at 3:36pm
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HAMILTON
Colleen van der Laan was my mw for number 1 & 2 and I her! She delivered Ollie, however I had her back up mw (Shelley Sjaarda) for Lilia's birth. Colleen is great because I felt I could ask her anything and she never made me feel silly, or like I was wasting her time. She was relaxed and friendly but also acted promptly and confidently when required (I had a PPH due to fully retained placenta with Ollie).
I used Shelley Sjaarda with number 3 as Colleen was out of the country. Again an excellent midwife who I have no hesitation in recommending. As with Colleen she is friendly and approachable, happy to 'see how we go on the day' but as she is also a RN I felt confident that had anything happened she could make the right decisions for me & my baby (nothing did happen though!). I'm glad that we probably won't be having anymore kids, because I'd hate to have to choose between them! ------------- DS 8 DD 6 DS 4 DD 2 |
Posted By: Kazper
Date Posted: 23 November 2010 at 9:40pm
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HAMILTON
Dawn McHugh - HIGHLY RECOMMEND!! I don't live in Hamilton, but knew we were going to birth in Hamilton. We had so many issues with our local mw and so many complications. She would call me on my cell regularly to check up on me even though I wasn't under her car then and would go above and beyond. After the birth she drove all over Hamilton on a public holiday to buy me nipple shields and a cream to save us the trouble of doing it after a long drive home. She is completely focused on you and your needs. Will do what ever makes you feel comfortable and never make you feel bad for any decision you make.[ ------------- http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/545141" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: Jamesma
Date Posted: 04 December 2010 at 6:42pm
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WAIKATO - Therese James. She literally saved my babies life too!! Argued black and blue with the Register at the hospital for me to have an emergancy C-Section after Meconium and 32 hrs labour....finally got her way. If baby hadnt come then, we would have been dealing with an oxygen deprived bubba. She will forever be our angel.
If you can get her (shes in high demand), you'd NEVER look back!! XX
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Posted By: kabe
Date Posted: 04 December 2010 at 7:28pm
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Updated
AUCKLAND North Shore: Debbie Greenwood from Maternity Associates. She was wonderful, particularly with her post-natal care. NS: Delwyn Evans from mat assoc. Hasn’t delivered my baby yet, but came highly recommended. Nothing’s too much of a bother for her. Very friendly & relaxed. Central:The Tui Team (Megan / Cherry) at Birthcare Parnell. They were both absolutely fantastic, reassuring, great follow up, available for me at any time, funny, really good at relaxing me, but also taking questions/concerns seriously and not making me feel stupid. Papakura/Pukekohe: Danielle North, Can't recommend her highly enough, she was brilliant! Waiuku/Pukekohe: Cathi Wintle, She is fantastic!! She saw me through both pregnancies and will see my through my next :) Pukekohe: RUTH DAVISON. She encouraged me with my VBA2C and we had a planned HB and are now having another HB for this bubs. Partly named my son after her as a tribute to what she helped me to achieve Helena Humphries from Hibiscus coast Midwives - shes awesome - no bulls**t - had three babes of her own and is just a really nice chic. Is licensed for NSH and Waitak too West Auckland: Angela Scott, Baby on the Way Midwives is AWESOME. Very thorough and just amazing while you are labouring. She does homebirth/home waterbirth as well aad her back-up Rochelle is just as amazing and lovely. West Auckland: Midwives Independent - heidi copland 027 226 6655 (09) 420 7931 Covers helensville birthing centre, waitakere hospital, northshore hospital. highly recommend her,shes been my midwife for both my last pregnancy and current,lovely lady couldnt ask for a better person to be in the care of during pregnancy and all:) West Auckland: Bunny Cummings, I haven't had my baby yet but she's just been awesome the whole way through my pregnancy! Plus i've heard other mums talk about her and never anything bad! West Auckland: Gail Kiss from Henderson (can't remember the name of the practice). She delivers at Waitakere Hospital and home births. She's got something like 12 years of obstetric emergency experience and she's very onto it from the medical perspective. I feel very safe in her hands. She's also caring, loves to exclaim over beautiful bumps and has a wicked sense of humour! Grey Lynn: Rhondda Kerrins. She delivered both my kids and i wouldnt of done it without her, she is AMAZING. Howick: Catherine Overfield. I had her all the way through my last pregnancy , and she was good, I found her very nice, unfortunatly she wasn't at my son's birth (she was off for the weekend ) but a lady in my coffee group ended up with her during labour and she says she was very good ,calm , and reassuring etc WAIKATO Hamilton: Colleen van der Laan, works out of Waterford. She is fantastic!! A lactation consultant as well, and an experienced NICU nurse as well. She was my sister's MW as well, I couldn't recommend her highly enough! Hamilton: Colleen van der Laan was my mw for number 1 & 2 and I her! She delivered Ollie, however I had her back up mw (Shelley Sjaarda) for Lilia's birth. Colleen is great because I felt I could ask her anything and she never made me feel silly, or like I was wasting her time. She was relaxed and friendly but also acted promptly and confidently when required (I had a PPH due to fully retained placenta with Ollie). I used Shelley Sjaarda with number 3 as Colleen was out of the country. Again an excellent midwife who I have no hesitation in recommending. As with Colleen she is friendly and approachable, happy to 'see how we go on the day' but as she is also a RN I felt confident that had anything happened she could make the right decisions for me & my baby (nothing did happen though!). Dawn McHugh - HIGHLY RECOMMEND!! I don't live in Hamilton, but knew we were going to birth in Hamilton. We had so many issues with our local mw and so many complications. She would call me on my cell regularly to check up on me even though I wasn't under her car then and would go above and beyond. After the birth she drove all over Hamilton on a public holiday to buy me nipple shields and a cream to save us the trouble of doing it after a long drive home. She is completely focused on you and your needs. Will do whatever makes you feel comfortable and never make you feel bad for any decision you make. Therese James: She literally saved my babies life too!! Argued black and blue with the Register at the hospital for me to have an emergancy C-Section after Meconium and 32 hrs labour....finally got her way. If baby hadnt come then, we would have been dealing with an oxygen deprived bubba. She will forever be our angel. If you can get her (shes in high demand), you'd NEVER look back!! XX TAURANGA Bethlehem: Leigh O'neill from Bay Births. I've had her for both my pregnancies and she's fantastic. Really laid back, but incredibly switched on at the same time. She's always made me feel comfortable and at ease with any "bumps" along the way. Leigh was away when I delivered Hannah, so I had Pat Shanks, who I would rate incredibly highly, too. In fact, ANY of the ladies at Bay Births. They're all like-minded and work really well together as a supportive team. Tauranga/Mount/Papamoa/Te Puke: Andrea Smith, brilliant supportive MW, long appointments, fully engaged in your care the whole time. And Linda Steadman who delivered DS2, so brilliant, she does home antenatal visits and have had friends who highly recommend her. Waihi / Katikati : Belinda Beetham and Margaret Searancke are totally awesome. Margaret was my MW and the Birth was a lot easier with her. TE AROHA : Jen Hubbard from Aroha Midwifery - cover Morrinsville/Te Aroha/Paeroa (not sure of exact areas). She is just fantastic! TAUPO Sonia Ransom is an amazing midwife. Perfect for me as a first time mum. Fabulous at the birth - the minute she walked into the room I knew everything was okay. HAWKES BAY Teresa Cornes best i could have asked for wonderful! MANAWATU Otaki: Kim Porthouse from Otaki Midwifery, does any birth from home to palmy hospital and covers most of manawatu Palmerston North: Megan Holloway from Heretaunga Midwifery. I couldn't have wished for a better midwife, and bonus, she trained as a nurse before changing to midwifery so has a lot of great knowledge and experience. Palmerston North: Kendra Mackey: I’d like to recommend my wonderful midwife kendra..shes wonderful and I totally recommend her WELLINGTON Northern Suburbs: Michelle Vincent from Ngaio medical centre. She is just fantastic! The whole time. Michelle Vincent - based at Ngaio Medical centre, does Northern suburbs. She came highly recommended to us and so far (I'm 30 weeks and high risk) she has been FANTASTIC! -another Michelle Vincent fan. Kind, supportive and extremely open to all sorts of ways of birthing. already 1 million times better than my first mw Northern Suburbs: Margaret Hadley, from Capital City Midwives. She is very onto it (very experienced, was a nurse before a MW) she can be quite blunt, but you know where you stand with her and she is more than capable. Northern Suburbs (Johnsonville to Pukerua Bay): My midwife was through Birth Options and her name is: Victoria Panteleeva. Awesome midwife!!! Can't recommend her enough! -I second this! Victoria delivered DD for me and is my midwife again for this baby Hutt Valley/Whitbyish area: Christine Griffiths. I can't rave about her enough she was just awesome. Has been a MW / nurse for over 20 yrs knows what she is doing and doesn't pressure you to do anything you don't want to do. Lower Hutt: Julie Thompson - she was just fabulous in every possible way. NELSON Lynn Hilden, an independant midwife who works out of the motueka birthing unit. Fantastic lady, orginally from England. She only takes on 2 or 3 ladies a month so has lots of time to see you. Very cruisey- into natural birthing but will take on anyone. I will be ringing her when we decide to have another one. http://www.nelsonmidwives.co.nz/midwife.php?id=14 CHRISTCHURCH Halswell Village Midwives - Vicki De Grut. She was just awesome! Was recommended to me by a friend who also loved her! I still miss her. She was just so easy to get along with. I could txt her whenever I had a question and she was always quick to txt/ring me back. Will definitely be using her for #2! Jacqui Newell from Birth Choice Wendy Walton of Midwifery Associates . I can highly recommend Wendy. Bubs isn't born yet, but the level of care I've received to date is fantastic - I can't rave about her enough. TIMARU Dianne Cox (independant) .This is my first and she's always fielding anxious phone calls from me, and last week i burst into her office to ask tearfully if she can use her heartbeat magic stick because im convinced somethings wrong and she did straight away without fuss and even ordered blood tests that im sure i didnt need but reassured me. Shes lovely and friendly and spends lots of time on you and i think she's been practicing for over 20 years DUNEDIN Jennie Crawshaw, She is fantastic (or at least i think so). And if you want a student id recommend Jane (littlebug from here) She is great too! Heather LaDell and Adrienne Mulqueen. can't speak highly enough of them. And i 2nd Jane (littlebug) as a student midwife. she is so lovely INVERCARGILL / SOUTHLAND Liz Whyte & Terryl McDowall (they work together) They have maximum experience and both are just so lovely & trustworthy!!! Great for homebirth, too!! Louise Hammond. I had Louise Hammond for 2nd pregnancy (isabella) She was a awesome midwife. ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com">
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Posted By: newme
Date Posted: 05 December 2010 at 10:35am
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From now on, if you are recommending your midwife, please copy and paste the list below and add your midwife recommendation to the appropriate area. Thanks.
AUCKLAND North Shore: Debbie Greenwood from Maternity Associates. She was wonderful, particularly with her post-natal care. NS: Delwyn Evans from mat assoc. Hasn’t delivered my baby yet, but came highly recommended. Nothing’s too much of a bother for her. Very friendly & relaxed. Central:The Tui Team (Megan / Cherry) at Birthcare Parnell. They were both absolutely fantastic, reassuring, great follow up, available for me at any time, funny, really good at relaxing me, but also taking questions/concerns seriously and not making me feel stupid. Papakura/Pukekohe: Danielle North, Can't recommend her highly enough, she was brilliant! Waiuku/Pukekohe: Cathi Wintle, She is fantastic!! She saw me through both pregnancies and will see my through my next :) Pukekohe: RUTH DAVISON. She encouraged me with my VBA2C and we had a planned HB and are now having another HB for this bubs. Partly named my son after her as a tribute to what she helped me to achieve Helena Humphries from Hibiscus coast Midwives - shes awesome - no bulls**t - had three babes of her own and is just a really nice chic. Is licensed for NSH and Waitak too West Auckland: Angela Scott, Baby on the Way Midwives is AWESOME. Very thorough and just amazing while you are labouring. She does homebirth/home waterbirth as well aad her back-up Rochelle is just as amazing and lovely. West Auckland: Midwives Independent - heidi copland 027 226 6655 (09) 420 7931 Covers helensville birthing centre, waitakere hospital, northshore hospital. highly recommend her,shes been my midwife for both my last pregnancy and current,lovely lady couldnt ask for a better person to be in the care of during pregnancy and all:) West Auckland: Bunny Cummings, I haven't had my baby yet but she's just been awesome the whole way through my pregnancy! Plus i've heard other mums talk about her and never anything bad! West Auckland: Gail Kiss from Henderson (can't remember the name of the practice). She delivers at Waitakere Hospital and home births. She's got something like 12 years of obstetric emergency experience and she's very onto it from the medical perspective. I feel very safe in her hands. She's also caring, loves to exclaim over beautiful bumps and has a wicked sense of humour! Grey Lynn: Rhondda Kerrins. She delivered both my kids and i wouldnt of done it without her, she is AMAZING. Howick: Catherine Overfield. I had her all the way through my last pregnancy , and she was good, I found her very nice, unfortunatly she wasn't at my son's birth (she was off for the weekend ) but a lady in my coffee group ended up with her during labour and she says she was very good ,calm , and reassuring etc WAIKATO Hamilton: Colleen van der Laan, works out of Waterford. She is fantastic!! A lactation consultant as well, and an experienced NICU nurse as well. She was my sister's MW as well, I couldn't recommend her highly enough! Hamilton: Colleen van der Laan was my mw for number 1 & 2 and I her! She delivered Ollie, however I had her back up mw (Shelley Sjaarda) for Lilia's birth. Colleen is great because I felt I could ask her anything and she never made me feel silly, or like I was wasting her time. She was relaxed and friendly but also acted promptly and confidently when required (I had a PPH due to fully retained placenta with Ollie). I used Shelley Sjaarda with number 3 as Colleen was out of the country. Again an excellent midwife who I have no hesitation in recommending. As with Colleen she is friendly and approachable, happy to 'see how we go on the day' but as she is also a RN I felt confident that had anything happened she could make the right decisions for me & my baby (nothing did happen though!). Dawn McHugh - HIGHLY RECOMMEND!! I don't live in Hamilton, but knew we were going to birth in Hamilton. We had so many issues with our local mw and so many complications. She would call me on my cell regularly to check up on me even though I wasn't under her car then and would go above and beyond. After the birth she drove all over Hamilton on a public holiday to buy me nipple shields and a cream to save us the trouble of doing it after a long drive home. She is completely focused on you and your needs. Will do whatever makes you feel comfortable and never make you feel bad for any decision you make. Therese James: She literally saved my babies life too!! Argued black and blue with the Register at the hospital for me to have an emergancy C-Section after Meconium and 32 hrs labour....finally got her way. If baby hadnt come then, we would have been dealing with an oxygen deprived bubba. She will forever be our angel. If you can get her (shes in high demand), you'd NEVER look back!! XX TAURANGA Bethlehem: Leigh O'neill from Bay Births. I've had her for both my pregnancies and she's fantastic. Really laid back, but incredibly switched on at the same time. She's always made me feel comfortable and at ease with any "bumps" along the way. Leigh was away when I delivered Hannah, so I had Pat Shanks, who I would rate incredibly highly, too. In fact, ANY of the ladies at Bay Births. They're all like-minded and work really well together as a supportive team. Tauranga/Mount/Papamoa/Te Puke: Andrea Smith, brilliant supportive MW, long appointments, fully engaged in your care the whole time. And Linda Steadman who delivered DS2, so brilliant, she does home antenatal visits and have had friends who highly recommend her. Waihi / Katikati : Belinda Beetham and Margaret Searancke are totally awesome. Margaret was my MW and the Birth was a lot easier with her. TE AROHA : Jen Hubbard from Aroha Midwifery - cover Morrinsville/Te Aroha/Paeroa (not sure of exact areas). She is just fantastic! TAUPO Sonia Ransom is an amazing midwife. Perfect for me as a first time mum. Fabulous at the birth - the minute she walked into the room I knew everything was okay. HAWKES BAY Teresa Cornes best i could have asked for wonderful! MANAWATU Otaki: Kim Porthouse from Otaki Midwifery, does any birth from home to palmy hospital and covers most of manawatu Palmerston North: Megan Holloway from Heretaunga Midwifery. I couldn't have wished for a better midwife, and bonus, she trained as a nurse before changing to midwifery so has a lot of great knowledge and experience. Palmerston North: Kendra Mackey: I’d like to recommend my wonderful midwife kendra..shes wonderful and I totally recommend her WELLINGTON Northern Suburbs: Michelle Vincent from Ngaio medical centre. She is just fantastic! The whole time. Michelle Vincent - based at Ngaio Medical centre, does Northern suburbs. She came highly recommended to us and so far (I'm 30 weeks and high risk) she has been FANTASTIC! -another Michelle Vincent fan. Kind, supportive and extremely open to all sorts of ways of birthing. already 1 million times better than my first mw Northern Suburbs: Margaret Hadley, from Capital City Midwives. She is very onto it (very experienced, was a nurse before a MW) she can be quite blunt, but you know where you stand with her and she is more than capable. Northern Suburbs (Johnsonville to Pukerua Bay): My midwife was through Birth Options and her name is: Victoria Panteleeva. Awesome midwife!!! Can't recommend her enough! -I second this! Victoria delivered DD for me and is my midwife again for this baby Hutt Valley/Whitbyish area: Christine Griffiths. I can't rave about her enough she was just awesome. Has been a MW / nurse for over 20 yrs knows what she is doing and doesn't pressure you to do anything you don't want to do. Lower Hutt: Julie Thompson - she was just fabulous in every possible way. NELSON Lynn Hilden, an independant midwife who works out of the motueka birthing unit. Fantastic lady, orginally from England. She only takes on 2 or 3 ladies a month so has lots of time to see you. Very cruisey- into natural birthing but will take on anyone. I will be ringing her when we decide to have another one. http://www.nelsonmidwives.co.nz/midwife.php?id=14 NORTH CANTERBURY Valerie Melling - Great midwife, does home births and hospital births. Highly recommend. She went out of her way to make my pregnancy and birth the best it could be. CHRISTCHURCH Halswell Village Midwives - Vicki De Grut. She was just awesome! Was recommended to me by a friend who also loved her! I still miss her. She was just so easy to get along with. I could txt her whenever I had a question and she was always quick to txt/ring me back. Will definitely be using her for #2! Jacqui Newell from Birth Choice Wendy Walton of Midwifery Associates . I can highly recommend Wendy. Bubs isn't born yet, but the level of care I've received to date is fantastic - I can't rave about her enough. TIMARU Dianne Cox (independant) .This is my first and she's always fielding anxious phone calls from me, and last week i burst into her office to ask tearfully if she can use her heartbeat magic stick because im convinced somethings wrong and she did straight away without fuss and even ordered blood tests that im sure i didnt need but reassured me. Shes lovely and friendly and spends lots of time on you and i think she's been practicing for over 20 years DUNEDIN Jennie Crawshaw, She is fantastic (or at least i think so). And if you want a student id recommend Jane (littlebug from here) She is great too! Heather LaDell and Adrienne Mulqueen. can't speak highly enough of them. And i 2nd Jane (littlebug) as a student midwife. she is so lovely INVERCARGILL / SOUTHLAND Liz Whyte & Terryl McDowall (they work together) They have maximum experience and both are just so lovely & trustworthy!!! Great for homebirth, too!! Louise Hammond. I had Louise Hammond for 2nd pregnancy (isabella) She was a awesome midwife. [/QUOTE] |
Posted By: MelBee
Date Posted: 23 December 2010 at 8:17pm
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Great topic!
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Posted By: jano1
Date Posted: 23 December 2010 at 8:35pm
| MelBee I used Brigid Beehan based in Pt Chev with my DD. I had amazing post natal care from her and one of my friends is using her for her 2nd (on my recommendation) and is really happy with her care. She was great, she only works part time so takes less mums to be on so if you are keen get on to her quickly. |
Posted By: MelBee
Date Posted: 23 December 2010 at 9:25pm
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Thanks for that Jano1...she would be really handy for me. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kji2011
Date Posted: 10 January 2011 at 7:34pm
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Hi there,
Does anyone have contact details for Michelle Vincent (Wellington) and/or know what the best way is to get in touch with her? I've tried via the Ngaio Medical Centre's online contact form but haven't heard anything back and am just worried that she's so popular that if I wait she may be all booked up! Thanks |
Posted By: Emmi_
Date Posted: 10 January 2011 at 7:39pm
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Give them a call (939 9393) and get her number from them.
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Posted By: Jacobsmumma
Date Posted: 10 January 2011 at 7:52pm
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NORTH SHORE: Cherie Davis from Close to Nature was my mw for my 1st pregnancy. Unfortunately it was her rostered wkend off when I went into labour but she made it to theater 1 min after my Son was born. Great mw, always there for you whenever needed and no answer is silly. She's booked me in for this pregnancy ------------- 
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Posted By: Inkedpixie
Date Posted: 12 January 2011 at 9:10pm
Phew! a Hamilton recommendation hehe. Thanks :) Oops! Shoulda checked the next page before writing this, there's a few Hamilton ones now! :D |
Posted By: motherof4soon
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 11:19am
| Margaret Hadley is a terrible midwife! I had her - worse birthing experience ever. |
Posted By: kabe
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 9:46pm
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If you are recommending your midwife, please copy and paste the list below and add your midwife recommendation to the appropriate area. Thanks.
AUCKLAND North Shore: Debbie Greenwood from Maternity Associates. She was wonderful, particularly with her post-natal care. NS: Delwyn Evans from Mat associates. Hasn’t delivered my baby yet, but came highly recommended. Nothing’s too much of a bother for her. Very friendly & relaxed. NS:Cherie Davis from Close to Nature. Great mw, always there for you whenever needed and no question is silly. She's booked me in for this pregnancy. Helena Humphries from Hibiscus coast Midwives - shes awesome - no bulls**t - had three babes of her own and is just a really nice chic. Is licensed for NSH and Waitak too Central:The Tui Team (Megan / Cherry) at Birthcare Parnell. They were both absolutely fantastic, reassuring, great follow up, available for me at any time, funny, really good at relaxing me, but also taking questions/concerns seriously and not making me feel stupid. Brigid Beehan based in Pt Chev. I had amazing post natal care from her and one of my friends is using her for her 2nd (on my recommendation) and is really happy with her care. She was great, she only works part time so takes less mums to be on so if you are keen get on to her quickly. Grey Lynn: Rhondda Kerrins. She delivered both my kids and i wouldnt of done it without her, she is AMAZING. Papakura/Pukekohe: Danielle North, Can't recommend her highly enough, she was brilliant! Waiuku/Pukekohe: Cathi Wintle, She is fantastic!! She saw me through both pregnancies and will see my through my next :) Pukekohe: RUTH DAVISON. She encouraged me with my VBA2C and we had a planned HB and are now having another HB for this bubs. Partly named my son after her as a tribute to what she helped me to achieve West Auckland: Angela Scott, Baby on the Way Midwives is AWESOME. Very thorough and just amazing while you are labouring. She does homebirth/home waterbirth as well and her back-up Rochelle is just as amazing and lovely. West Auckland: Midwives Independent - Heidi Copland 027 226 6655 (09) 420 7931 Covers helensville birthing centre, waitakere hospital, northshore hospital. Highly recommend her,shes been my midwife for both my last pregnancy and current,lovely lady couldnt ask for a better person to be in the care of during pregnancy and all:) West Auckland: Bunny Cummings, I haven't had my baby yet but she's just been awesome the whole way through my pregnancy! Plus i've heard other mums talk about her and never anything bad! West Auckland: Gail Kiss from Henderson (can't remember the name of the practice). She delivers at Waitakere Hospital and home births. She's got something like 12 years of obstetric emergency experience and she's very onto it from the medical perspective. I feel very safe in her hands. She's also caring, loves to exclaim over beautiful bumps and has a wicked sense of humour! East Auckland Howick: Catherine Overfield. I had her all the way through my last pregnancy , and she was good, I found her very nice, unfortunatly she wasn't at my son's birth (she was off for the weekend ) but a lady in my coffee group ended up with her during labour and she says she was very good ,calm , and reassuring etc WAIKATO Hamilton: Colleen van der Laan, works out of Waterford. She is fantastic!! A lactation consultant as well, and an experienced NICU nurse as well. She was my sister's MW as well, I couldn't recommend her highly enough! Hamilton: Colleen van der Laan was my mw for number 1 & 2 and I her! She delivered Ollie, however I had her back up mw (Shelley Sjaarda) for Lilia's birth. Colleen is great because I felt I could ask her anything and she never made me feel silly, or like I was wasting her time. She was relaxed and friendly but also acted promptly and confidently when required (I had a PPH due to fully retained placenta with Ollie). I used Shelley Sjaarda with number 3 as Colleen was out of the country. Again an excellent midwife who I have no hesitation in recommending. As with Colleen she is friendly and approachable, happy to 'see how we go on the day' but as she is also a RN I felt confident that had anything happened she could make the right decisions for me & my baby (nothing did happen though!). Dawn McHugh - HIGHLY RECOMMEND!! I don't live in Hamilton, but knew we were going to birth in Hamilton. We had so many issues with our local mw and so many complications. She would call me on my cell regularly to check up on me even though I wasn't under her car then and would go above and beyond. After the birth she drove all over Hamilton on a public holiday to buy me nipple shields and a cream to save us the trouble of doing it after a long drive home. She is completely focused on you and your needs. Will do whatever makes you feel comfortable and never make you feel bad for any decision you make. Therese James: She literally saved my babies life too!! Argued black and blue with the Register at the hospital for me to have an emergancy C-Section after Meconium and 32 hrs labour....finally got her way. If baby hadnt come then, we would have been dealing with an oxygen deprived bubba. She will forever be our angel. If you can get her (shes in high demand), you'd NEVER look back!! XX TAURANGA Bethlehem: Leigh O'neill from Bay Births. I've had her for both my pregnancies and she's fantastic. Really laid back, but incredibly switched on at the same time. She's always made me feel comfortable and at ease with any "bumps" along the way. Leigh was away when I delivered Hannah, so I had Pat Shanks, who I would rate incredibly highly, too. In fact, ANY of the ladies at Bay Births. They're all like-minded and work really well together as a supportive team. Tauranga/Mount/Papamoa/Te Puke: Andrea Smith, brilliant supportive MW, long appointments, fully engaged in your care the whole time. And Linda Steadman who delivered DS2, so brilliant, she does home antenatal visits and have had friends who highly recommend her. Waihi / Katikati : Belinda Beetham and Margaret Searancke are totally awesome. Margaret was my MW and the Birth was a lot easier with her. TE AROHA : Jen Hubbard from Aroha Midwifery - cover Morrinsville/Te Aroha/Paeroa (not sure of exact areas). She is just fantastic! TAUPO Sonia Ransom is an amazing midwife. Perfect for me as a first time mum. Fabulous at the birth - the minute she walked into the room I knew everything was okay. HAWKES BAY Teresa Cornes best i could have asked for wonderful! MANAWATU Otaki: Kim Porthouse from Otaki Midwifery, does any birth from home to palmy hospital and covers most of manawatu Palmerston North: Megan Holloway from Heretaunga Midwifery. I couldn't have wished for a better midwife, and bonus, she trained as a nurse before changing to midwifery so has a lot of great knowledge and experience. Palmerston North: Kendra Mackey: I’d like to recommend my wonderful midwife kendra..shes wonderful and I totally recommend her WELLINGTON Northern Suburbs: Michelle Vincent from Ngaio medical centre. She is just fantastic! The whole time. Michelle Vincent - based at Ngaio Medical centre, does Northern suburbs. She came highly recommended to us and so far (I'm 30 weeks and high risk) she has been FANTASTIC! -another Michelle Vincent fan. Kind, supportive and extremely open to all sorts of ways of birthing. already 1 million times better than my first mw Northern Suburbs: Margaret Hadley, from Capital City Midwives. She is very onto it (very experienced, was a nurse before a MW) she can be quite blunt, but you know where you stand with her and she is more than capable. Northern Suburbs (Johnsonville to Pukerua Bay): My midwife was through Birth Options and her name is: Victoria Panteleeva. Awesome midwife!!! Can't recommend her enough! -I second this! Victoria delivered DD for me and is my midwife again for this baby Hutt Valley/Whitbyish area: Christine Griffiths. I can't rave about her enough she was just awesome. Has been a MW / nurse for over 20 yrs knows what she is doing and doesn't pressure you to do anything you don't want to do. Lower Hutt: Julie Thompson - she was just fabulous in every possible way. NELSON Lynn Hilden, an independant midwife who works out of the motueka birthing unit. Fantastic lady, orginally from England. She only takes on 2 or 3 ladies a month so has lots of time to see you. Very cruisey- into natural birthing but will take on anyone. I will be ringing her when we decide to have another one. http://www.nelsonmidwives.co.nz/midwife.php?id=14 NORTH CANTERBURY Valerie Melling - Great midwife, does home births and hospital births. Highly recommend. She went out of her way to make my pregnancy and birth the best it could be. CHRISTCHURCH Halswell Village Midwives - Vicki De Grut. She was just awesome! Was recommended to me by a friend who also loved her! I still miss her. She was just so easy to get along with. I could txt her whenever I had a question and she was always quick to txt/ring me back. Will definitely be using her for #2! Jacqui Newell from Birth Choice Wendy Walton of Midwifery Associates . I can highly recommend Wendy. Bubs isn't born yet, but the level of care I've received to date is fantastic - I can't rave about her enough. TIMARU Dianne Cox (independant) .This is my first and she's always fielding anxious phone calls from me, and last week i burst into her office to ask tearfully if she can use her heartbeat magic stick because im convinced somethings wrong and she did straight away without fuss and even ordered blood tests that im sure i didnt need but reassured me. Shes lovely and friendly and spends lots of time on you and i think she's been practicing for over 20 years DUNEDIN Jennie Crawshaw, She is fantastic (or at least i think so). And if you want a student id recommend Jane (littlebug from here) She is great too! Heather LaDell and Adrienne Mulqueen. can't speak highly enough of them. And i 2nd Jane (littlebug) as a student midwife. she is so lovely INVERCARGILL / SOUTHLAND Liz Whyte & Terryl McDowall (they work together) They have maximum experience and both are just so lovely & trustworthy!!! Great for homebirth, too!! Louise Hammond. I had Louise Hammond for 2nd pregnancy (isabella) She was a awesome midwife. ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com">
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Posted By: motherof4soon
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 7:34am
| Margaret Hadley is not a good midwife. I had her with my 3rd child and ended up having an emergency c-section due to substandard labour management from her. |
Posted By: amme_eilyk
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 12:02pm
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If you are recommending your midwife, please copy and paste the list below and add your midwife recommendation to the appropriate area. Thanks.
AUCKLAND North Shore: Debbie Greenwood from Maternity Associates. She was wonderful, particularly with her post-natal care. NS: Delwyn Evans from Mat associates. Hasn’t delivered my baby yet, but came highly recommended. Nothing’s too much of a bother for her. Very friendly & relaxed. NS:Cherie Davis from Close to Nature. Great mw, always there for you whenever needed and no question is silly. She's booked me in for this pregnancy. Helena Humphries from Hibiscus coast Midwives - shes awesome - no bulls**t - had three babes of her own and is just a really nice chic. Is licensed for NSH and Waitak too Central:The Tui Team (Megan / Cherry) at Birthcare Parnell. They were both absolutely fantastic, reassuring, great follow up, available for me at any time, funny, really good at relaxing me, but also taking questions/concerns seriously and not making me feel stupid. Brigid Beehan based in Pt Chev. I had amazing post natal care from her and one of my friends is using her for her 2nd (on my recommendation) and is really happy with her care. She was great, she only works part time so takes less mums to be on so if you are keen get on to her quickly. Grey Lynn: Rhondda Kerrins. She delivered both my kids and i wouldnt of done it without her, she is AMAZING. Papakura/Pukekohe: Danielle North, Can't recommend her highly enough, she was brilliant! Waiuku/Pukekohe: Cathi Wintle, She is fantastic!! She saw me through both pregnancies and will see my through my next :) Pukekohe: RUTH DAVISON. She encouraged me with my VBA2C and we had a planned HB and are now having another HB for this bubs. Partly named my son after her as a tribute to what she helped me to achieve West Auckland: Angela Scott, Baby on the Way Midwives is AWESOME. Very thorough and just amazing while you are labouring. She does homebirth/home waterbirth as well and her back-up Rochelle is just as amazing and lovely. West Auckland: Midwives Independent - Heidi Copland 027 226 6655 (09) 420 7931 Covers helensville birthing centre, waitakere hospital, northshore hospital. Highly recommend her,shes been my midwife for both my last pregnancy and current,lovely lady couldnt ask for a better person to be in the care of during pregnancy and all:) West Auckland: Bunny Cummings, I haven't had my baby yet but she's just been awesome the whole way through my pregnancy! Plus i've heard other mums talk about her and never anything bad! West Auckland: Gail Kiss from Henderson (can't remember the name of the practice). She delivers at Waitakere Hospital and home births. She's got something like 12 years of obstetric emergency experience and she's very onto it from the medical perspective. I feel very safe in her hands. She's also caring, loves to exclaim over beautiful bumps and has a wicked sense of humour! East Auckland Howick: Catherine Overfield. I had her all the way through my last pregnancy , and she was good, I found her very nice, unfortunatly she wasn't at my son's birth (she was off for the weekend ) but a lady in my coffee group ended up with her during labour and she says she was very good ,calm , and reassuring etc WAIKATO Hamilton: Colleen van der Laan, works out of Waterford. She is fantastic!! A lactation consultant as well, and an experienced NICU nurse as well. She was my sister's MW as well, I couldn't recommend her highly enough! Hamilton: Colleen van der Laan was my mw for number 1 & 2 and I her! She delivered Ollie, however I had her back up mw (Shelley Sjaarda) for Lilia's birth. Colleen is great because I felt I could ask her anything and she never made me feel silly, or like I was wasting her time. She was relaxed and friendly but also acted promptly and confidently when required (I had a PPH due to fully retained placenta with Ollie). I used Shelley Sjaarda with number 3 as Colleen was out of the country. Again an excellent midwife who I have no hesitation in recommending. As with Colleen she is friendly and approachable, happy to 'see how we go on the day' but as she is also a RN I felt confident that had anything happened she could make the right decisions for me & my baby (nothing did happen though!). Dawn McHugh - HIGHLY RECOMMEND!! I don't live in Hamilton, but knew we were going to birth in Hamilton. We had so many issues with our local mw and so many complications. She would call me on my cell regularly to check up on me even though I wasn't under her car then and would go above and beyond. After the birth she drove all over Hamilton on a public holiday to buy me nipple shields and a cream to save us the trouble of doing it after a long drive home. She is completely focused on you and your needs. Will do whatever makes you feel comfortable and never make you feel bad for any decision you make. Therese James: She literally saved my babies life too!! Argued black and blue with the Register at the hospital for me to have an emergancy C-Section after Meconium and 32 hrs labour....finally got her way. If baby hadnt come then, we would have been dealing with an oxygen deprived bubba. She will forever be our angel. If you can get her (shes in high demand), you'd NEVER look back!! XX TAURANGA Bethlehem: Leigh O'neill from Bay Births. I've had her for both my pregnancies and she's fantastic. Really laid back, but incredibly switched on at the same time. She's always made me feel comfortable and at ease with any "bumps" along the way. Leigh was away when I delivered Hannah, so I had Pat Shanks, who I would rate incredibly highly, too. In fact, ANY of the ladies at Bay Births. They're all like-minded and work really well together as a supportive team. Tauranga/Mount/Papamoa/Te Puke: Andrea Smith, brilliant supportive MW, long appointments, fully engaged in your care the whole time. And Linda Steadman who delivered DS2, so brilliant, she does home antenatal visits and have had friends who highly recommend her. Waihi / Katikati : Belinda Beetham and Margaret Searancke are totally awesome. Margaret was my MW and the Birth was a lot easier with her. TE AROHA : Jen Hubbard from Aroha Midwifery - cover Morrinsville/Te Aroha/Paeroa (not sure of exact areas). She is just fantastic! TAUPO Sonia Ransom is an amazing midwife. Perfect for me as a first time mum. Fabulous at the birth - the minute she walked into the room I knew everything was okay. HAWKES BAY Teresa Cornes best i could have asked for wonderful! MANAWATU Otaki: Kim Porthouse from Otaki Midwifery, does any birth from home to palmy hospital and covers most of manawatu Palmerston North: Megan Holloway from Heretaunga Midwifery. I couldn't have wished for a better midwife, and bonus, she trained as a nurse before changing to midwifery so has a lot of great knowledge and experience. Palmerston North: Kendra Mackey: I’d like to recommend my wonderful midwife kendra..shes wonderful and I totally recommend her Palmerston North: Fiona McCrae: A fantastic midwife, I had a fantastic home birth through her I couldnt have had a better midwife. Palmerston North: Za Vivan: The second midwife at my homebirth. She was wonderful. WELLINGTON Northern Suburbs: Michelle Vincent from Ngaio medical centre. She is just fantastic! The whole time. Michelle Vincent - based at Ngaio Medical centre, does Northern suburbs. She came highly recommended to us and so far (I'm 30 weeks and high risk) she has been FANTASTIC! -another Michelle Vincent fan. Kind, supportive and extremely open to all sorts of ways of birthing. already 1 million times better than my first mw Northern Suburbs: Margaret Hadley, from Capital City Midwives. She is very onto it (very experienced, was a nurse before a MW) she can be quite blunt, but you know where you stand with her and she is more than capable. Northern Suburbs (Johnsonville to Pukerua Bay): My midwife was through Birth Options and her name is: Victoria Panteleeva. Awesome midwife!!! Can't recommend her enough! -I second this! Victoria delivered DD for me and is my midwife again for this baby Hutt Valley/Whitbyish area: Christine Griffiths. I can't rave about her enough she was just awesome. Has been a MW / nurse for over 20 yrs knows what she is doing and doesn't pressure you to do anything you don't want to do. Lower Hutt: Julie Thompson - she was just fabulous in every possible way. NELSON Lynn Hilden, an independant midwife who works out of the motueka birthing unit. Fantastic lady, orginally from England. She only takes on 2 or 3 ladies a month so has lots of time to see you. Very cruisey- into natural birthing but will take on anyone. I will be ringing her when we decide to have another one. http://www.nelsonmidwives.co.nz/midwife.php?id=14 NORTH CANTERBURY Valerie Melling - Great midwife, does home births and hospital births. Highly recommend. She went out of her way to make my pregnancy and birth the best it could be. CHRISTCHURCH Halswell Village Midwives - Vicki De Grut. She was just awesome! Was recommended to me by a friend who also loved her! I still miss her. She was just so easy to get along with. I could txt her whenever I had a question and she was always quick to txt/ring me back. Will definitely be using her for #2! Jacqui Newell from Birth Choice Wendy Walton of Midwifery Associates . I can highly recommend Wendy. Bubs isn't born yet, but the level of care I've received to date is fantastic - I can't rave about her enough. TIMARU Dianne Cox (independant) .This is my first and she's always fielding anxious phone calls from me, and last week i burst into her office to ask tearfully if she can use her heartbeat magic stick because im convinced somethings wrong and she did straight away without fuss and even ordered blood tests that im sure i didnt need but reassured me. Shes lovely and friendly and spends lots of time on you and i think she's been practicing for over 20 years DUNEDIN Jennie Crawshaw, She is fantastic (or at least i think so). And if you want a student id recommend Jane (littlebug from here) She is great too! Heather LaDell and Adrienne Mulqueen. can't speak highly enough of them. And i 2nd Jane (littlebug) as a student midwife. she is so lovely INVERCARGILL / SOUTHLAND Liz Whyte & Terryl McDowall (they work together) They have maximum experience and both are just so lovely & trustworthy!!! Great for homebirth, too!! Louise Hammond. I had Louise Hammond for 2nd pregnancy (isabella) She was a awesome midwife. |
Posted By: jane1
Date Posted: 20 January 2011 at 8:20pm
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HI
Has anyone in Auckland used Paddy Hughes before??? Any comments? Trying to decide between midwife and Obstetrician. |
Posted By: jane1
Date Posted: 20 January 2011 at 8:22pm
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HI
Has anyone in Auckland used Paddy Hughes before??? Any comments? Trying to decide between midwife and Obstetrician. |
Posted By: jane1
Date Posted: 20 January 2011 at 8:24pm
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HI
Has anyone in Auckland used Paddy Hughes before??? Any comments? Trying to decide between midwife and Obstetrician. |
Posted By: jenjen92
Date Posted: 24 January 2011 at 1:27pm
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Hi!
Can anyone tell me what the address for Lesley Gummer's office in Lower Hutt? |
Posted By: jenjen92
Date Posted: 24 January 2011 at 1:32pm
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Can anyone help?
I'm looking for the address of Lesley Gummer's office. |
Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 24 January 2011 at 2:22pm
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Posted By: charliea
Date Posted: 24 January 2011 at 2:28pm
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Hi guys, great topic!
I'm in South Wairarapa and my midwife for number 1 was Kate Wilson. I'm now pregnant with #2 and Kate's was the first number I dialed! She's really lovely, down to earth and unflappable - she always manages to calm me down when I'm freaking out about things!!
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Posted By: RachelBerry
Date Posted: 25 January 2011 at 9:09pm
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I had Yvonne Daji for my second baby and she was AWESOME. She's based in Glen Innes (east akl), but she takes clients from all over.
I know quite a few OHBaby mums have used her as well. She is beyond lovely, and was totally amenable to keeping me on, despite me moving 2 hours away from Auckland halfway through my pregnancy. She was happy to let me commute for my appointments, and managed things perfectly for me. She even offered me a stretch & sweep off her own bat at 39 weeks just to see if things were getting going (which they were!) I'm not planning anymore babies, but if it happened again, I would be ringing her up 30 seconds after telling DH I had a BFP....! |
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Date Posted: 14 February 2011 at 1:43pm
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Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 14 February 2011 at 5:23pm
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Posted By: KrazeeKaz
Date Posted: 18 February 2011 at 11:55am
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My MW Rebekah Tainui was absolutely brilliant and her backup Kathryn Duggan was also great. They are based in Hamilton East. They both went above and beyond the call of duty. And even though I was handed over to the hospital for induction, Kathryn was still there for the birth of my boy. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: girly_girl
Date Posted: 21 February 2011 at 11:07am
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Noooooo!!! My fantastically wonderful MW Colleen van der Laan, is retiring! She's finishing off her existing clients and then thats it. I'm truly guttered! -------------
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Posted By: music
Date Posted: 21 February 2011 at 10:32pm
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I need to say that Jill Adamson
is wonderful. I can remember what group in Lower Hutt she from. She is a great time with you when needed and also she great when things get stressful in labour keeps you calm. Her after care with you and baby is great as well. She will be used again I hope one day.
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Date Posted: 11 April 2011 at 9:08pm
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Posted By: CindyD
Date Posted: 15 April 2011 at 4:53pm
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Cathy Symes in Palmerston North. She is a wondeful lady and has birthed 3 of my babies... and i have just booked her in for #4! Yay! -------------    
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Posted By: Chelle_B
Date Posted: 11 May 2011 at 10:10am
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Posted By: kabe
Date Posted: 13 May 2011 at 4:10am
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Updated!
If you are recommending your midwife, please copy and paste the list below and add your midwife recommendation to the appropriate area. Thanks. AUCKLAND North Shore: Debbie Greenwood from Maternity Associates. She was wonderful, particularly with her post-natal care. NS: Delwyn Evans from Mat associates. Was amazing and came highly recommended. Nothing’s too much of a bother for her. Very friendly & relaxed. NS:Cherie Davis from Close to Nature. Great mw, always there for you whenever needed and no question is silly. She's booked me in for this pregnancy. Helena Humphries from Hibiscus coast Midwives - shes awesome - no bulls**t - had three babes of her own and is just a really nice chic. Is licensed for NSH and Waitak too Central:The Tui Team (Megan / Cherry) at Birthcare Parnell. They were both absolutely fantastic, reassuring, great follow up, available for me at any time, funny, really good at relaxing me, but also taking questions/concerns seriously and not making me feel stupid. Brigid Beehan based in Pt Chev. I had amazing post natal care from her and one of my friends is using her for her 2nd (on my recommendation) and is really happy with her care. She was great, she only works part time so takes less mums to be on so if you are keen get on to her quickly. Grey Lynn: Rhondda Kerrins. She delivered both my kids and i wouldnt of done it without her, she is AMAZING. Papakura/Pukekohe: Danielle North, Can't recommend her highly enough, she was brilliant! Waiuku/Pukekohe: Cathi Wintle, She is fantastic!! She saw me through both pregnancies and will see my through my next :) Pukekohe: RUTH DAVISON. She encouraged me with my VBA2C and we had a planned HB and are now having another HB for this bubs. Partly named my son after her as a tribute to what she helped me to achieve West Auckland: Angela Scott, Baby on the Way Midwives is AWESOME. Very thorough and just amazing while you are labouring. She does homebirth/home waterbirth as well and her back-up Rochelle is just as amazing and lovely. West Auckland: Midwives Independent - Heidi Copland 027 226 6655 (09) 420 7931 Covers helensville birthing centre, waitakere hospital, northshore hospital. Highly recommend her,shes been my midwife for both my last pregnancy and current,lovely lady couldnt ask for a better person to be in the care of during pregnancy and all:) West Auckland: Bunny Cummings, I haven't had my baby yet but she's just been awesome the whole way through my pregnancy! Plus i've heard other mums talk about her and never anything bad! West Auckland: Gail Kiss from Henderson (can't remember the name of the practice). She delivers at Waitakere Hospital and home births. She's got something like 12 years of obstetric emergency experience and she's very onto it from the medical perspective. I feel very safe in her hands. She's also caring, loves to exclaim over beautiful bumps and has a wicked sense of humour! East Auckland Howick: Catherine Overfield. I had her all the way through my last pregnancy , and she was good, I found her very nice, unfortunatly she wasn't at my son's birth (she was off for the weekend ) but a lady in my coffee group ended up with her during labour and she says she was very good ,calm , and reassuring etc Glen innes; I had Yvonne Daji for my second baby and she was AWESOME.She is beyond lovely, and was totally amenable to keeping me on, despite me moving 2 hours away from Auckland halfway through my pregnancy. She even offered me a stretch & sweep off her own bat at 39 weeks just to see if things were getting going (which they were!)I know quite a few OHBaby mums have used her as well. She is beyond lovely, and was totally amenable to keeping me on, despite me moving 2 hours away from Auckland halfway through my pregnancy. She was happy to let me commute for my appointments, and managed things perfectly for me. She even offered me a stretch & sweep off her own bat at 39 weeks just to see if things were getting going (which they were!) WAIKATO Hamilton: Colleen van der Laan, works out of Waterford. She is fantastic!! A lactation consultant as well, and an experienced NICU nurse as well. She was my sister's MW as well, I couldn't recommend her highly enough! Hamilton: Colleen van der Laan was my mw for number 1 & 2 and I her! She delivered Ollie, however I had her back up mw (Shelley Sjaarda) for Lilia's birth. Colleen is great because I felt I could ask her anything and she never made me feel silly, or like I was wasting her time. She was relaxed and friendly but also acted promptly and confidently when required (I had a PPH due to fully retained placenta with Ollie). Hamilton East: My MW Rebekah Tainui was absolutely brilliant and her backup Kathryn Duggan was also great. They both went above and beyond the call of duty. And even though I was handed over to the hospital for induction, Kathryn was still there for the birth of my boy. Shelley Sjaarda with number 3 as Colleen was out of the country. Again an excellent midwife who I have no hesitation in recommending. As with Colleen she is friendly and approachable, happy to 'see how we go on the day' but as she is also a RN I felt confident that had anything happened she could make the right decisions for me & my baby (nothing did happen though!). Dawn McHugh - HIGHLY RECOMMEND!! I don't live in Hamilton, but knew we were going to birth in Hamilton. We had so many issues with our local mw and so many complications. She would call me on my cell regularly to check up on me even though I wasn't under her care then and would go above and beyond. After the birth she drove all over Hamilton on a public holiday to buy me nipple shields and a cream to save us the trouble of doing it after a long drive home. She is completely focused on you and your needs. Will do whatever makes you feel comfortable and never make you feel bad for any decision you make. Therese James: She literally saved my babies life too!! Argued black and blue with the Register at the hospital for me to have an emergancy C-Section after Meconium and 32 hrs labour....finally got her way. If baby hadnt come then, we would have been dealing with an oxygen deprived bubba. She will forever be our angel. If you can get her (shes in high demand), you'd NEVER look back!! XX TAURANGA Bethlehem: Leigh O'neill from Bay Births. I've had her for both my pregnancies and she's fantastic. Really laid back, but incredibly switched on at the same time. She's always made me feel comfortable and at ease with any "bumps" along the way. Leigh was away when I delivered Hannah, so I had Pat Shanks, who I would rate incredibly highly, too. In fact, ANY of the ladies at Bay Births. They're all like-minded and work really well together as a supportive team. Tauranga/Mount/Papamoa/Te Puke: Andrea Smith, brilliant supportive MW, long appointments, fully engaged in your care the whole time. And Linda Steadman who delivered DS2, so brilliant, she does home antenatal visits and have had friends who highly recommend her. Waihi / Katikati : Belinda Beetham and Margaret Searancke are totally awesome. Margaret was my MW and the Birth was a lot easier with her. TE AROHA : Jen Hubbard from Aroha Midwifery - cover Morrinsville/Te Aroha/Paeroa (not sure of exact areas). She is just fantastic! TAUPO Sonia Ransom is an amazing midwife. Perfect for me as a first time mum. Fabulous at the birth - the minute she walked into the room I knew everything was okay. HAWKES BAY Teresa Cornes best i could have asked for wonderful! MANAWATU Otaki: Kim Porthouse from Otaki Midwifery, does any birth from home to palmy hospital and covers most of manawatu Palmerston North: Megan Holloway from Heretaunga Midwifery. I couldn't have wished for a better midwife, and bonus, she trained as a nurse before changing to midwifery so has a lot of great knowledge and experience. Palmerston North: Kendra Mackey: I’d like to recommend my wonderful midwife kendra..shes wonderful and I totally recommend her Palmerston North: Fiona McCrae: A fantastic midwife, I had a fantastic home birth through her I couldnt have had a better midwife. Palmerston North: Za Vivan: The second midwife at my homebirth. She was wonderful. Palmerston North:Cathy Symes. She is a wondeful lady and has birthed 3 of my babies... and i have just booked her in for #4! Yay! South Wairarapa - midwife for number 1 was Kate Wilson. I'm now pregnant with #2 and Kate's was the first number I dialed! She's really lovely, down to earth and unflappable - she always manages to calm me down when I'm freaking out about things!! WELLINGTON Northern Suburbs: Michelle Vincent from Ngaio medical centre. She is just fantastic! The whole time. Michelle Vincent - based at Ngaio Medical centre, does Northern suburbs. She came highly recommended to us and so far (I'm 30 weeks and high risk) she has been FANTASTIC! -another Michelle Vincent fan. Kind, supportive and extremely open to all sorts of ways of birthing. already 1 million times better than my first mw Northern Suburbs: Margaret Hadley, from Capital City Midwives. She is very onto it (very experienced, was a nurse before a MW) she can be quite blunt, but you know where you stand with her and she is more than capable. Northern Suburbs (Johnsonville to Pukerua Bay): My midwife was through Birth Options and her name is: Victoria Panteleeva. Awesome midwife!!! Can't recommend her enough! -I second this! Victoria delivered DD for me and is my midwife again for this baby Hutt Valley/Whitbyish area: Christine Griffiths. I can't rave about her enough she was just awesome. Has been a MW / nurse for over 20 yrs knows what she is doing and doesn't pressure you to do anything you don't want to do. Lower Hutt: Julie Thompson - she was just fabulous in every possible way. I need to say that Jill Adamson is wonderful.I can remember what group in Lower Hutt she from. She is a great time with you when needed and also she great when things get stressful in labour keeps you calm. Her after care with you and baby is great as well. NELSON Lynn Hilden, an independant midwife who works out of the motueka birthing unit. Fantastic lady, orginally from England. She only takes on 2 or 3 ladies a month so has lots of time to see you. Very cruisey- into natural birthing but will take on anyone. I will be ringing her when we decide to have another one. http://www.nelsonmidwives.co.nz/midwife.php?id=14 NORTH CANTERBURY Valerie Melling - Great midwife, does home births and hospital births. Highly recommend. She went out of her way to make my pregnancy and birth the best it could be. CHRISTCHURCH Halswell Village Midwives - Vicki De Grut. She was just awesome! Was recommended to me by a friend who also loved her! I still miss her. She was just so easy to get along with. I could txt her whenever I had a question and she was always quick to txt/ring me back. Will definitely be using her for #2! Jacqui Newell from Birth Choice Wendy Walton of Midwifery Associates . I can highly recommend Wendy. Bubs isn't born yet, but the level of care I've received to date is fantastic - I can't rave about her enough. TIMARU Dianne Cox (independant) .This is my first and she's always fielding anxious phone calls from me, and last week i burst into her office to ask tearfully if she can use her heartbeat magic stick because im convinced somethings wrong and she did straight away without fuss and even ordered blood tests that im sure i didnt need but reassured me. Shes lovely and friendly and spends lots of time on you and i think she's been practicing for over 20 years DUNEDIN Jennie Crawshaw, She is fantastic (or at least i think so). And if you want a student id recommend Jane (littlebug from here) She is great too! Heather LaDell and Adrienne Mulqueen. can't speak highly enough of them. And i 2nd Jane (littlebug) as a student midwife. she is so lovely INVERCARGILL / SOUTHLAND Liz Whyte & Terryl McDowall (they work together) They have maximum experience and both are just so lovely & trustworthy!!! Great for homebirth, too!! Louise Hammond. I had Louise Hammond for 2nd pregnancy (isabella) She was a awesome midwife. Hutt Valley/Whitbyish area: Christine Griffiths. I can't rave about her enough she was just awesome. Has been a MW / nurse for over 20 yrs knows what she is doing and doesn't pressure you to do anything you don't want to do. Lower Hutt: Julie Thompson - she was just fabulous in every possible way. NELSON Lynn Hilden, an independant midwife who works out of the motueka birthing unit. Fantastic lady, orginally from England. She only takes on 2 or 3 ladies a month so has lots of time to see you. Very cruisey- into natural birthing but will take on anyone. I will be ringing her when we decide to have another one. http://www.nelsonmidwives.co.nz/midwife.php?id=14 NORTH CANTERBURY Valerie Melling - Great midwife, does home births and hospital births. Highly recommend. She went out of her way to make my pregnancy and birth the best it could be. CHRISTCHURCH Halswell Village Midwives - Vicki De Grut. She was just awesome! Was recommended to me by a friend who also loved her! I still miss her. She was just so easy to get along with. I could txt her whenever I had a question and she was always quick to txt/ring me back. Will definitely be using her for #2! Jacqui Newell from Birth Choice Wendy Walton of Midwifery Associates . I can highly recommend Wendy. Bubs isn't born yet, but the level of care I've received to date is fantastic - I can't rave about her enough. TIMARU Dianne Cox (independant) .This is my first and she's always fielding anxious phone calls from me, and last week i burst into her office to ask tearfully if she can use her heartbeat magic stick because im convinced somethings wrong and she did straight away without fuss and even ordered blood tests that im sure i didnt need but reassured me. Shes lovely and friendly and spends lots of time on you and i think she's been practicing for over 20 years DUNEDIN Jennie Crawshaw, She is fantastic (or at least i think so). And if you want a student id recommend Jane (littlebug from here) She is great too! Heather LaDell and Adrienne Mulqueen. can't speak highly enough of them. And i 2nd Jane (littlebug) as a student midwife. she is so lovely INVERCARGILL / SOUTHLAND Liz Whyte & Terryl McDowall (they work together) They have maximum experience and both are just so lovely & trustworthy!!! Great for homebirth, too!! Louise Hammond. I had Louise Hammond for 2nd pregnancy (isabella) She was a awesome midwife. ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com">
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Date Posted: 14 May 2011 at 7:52pm
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If you are recommending your midwife, please copy and paste the list below and add your midwife recommendation to the appropriate area. Thanks.
AUCKLAND North Shore: Debbie Greenwood from Maternity Associates. She was wonderful, particularly with her post-natal care. NS: Delwyn Evans from Mat associates. Was amazing and came highly recommended. Nothing’s too much of a bother for her. Very friendly & relaxed. NS:Cherie Davis from Close to Nature. Great mw, always there for you whenever needed and no question is silly. She's booked me in for this pregnancy. Helena Humphries from Hibiscus coast Midwives - shes awesome - no bulls**t - had three babes of her own and is just a really nice chic. Is licensed for NSH and Waitak too Central:The Tui Team (Megan / Cherry) at Birthcare Parnell. They were both absolutely fantastic, reassuring, great follow up, available for me at any time, funny, really good at relaxing me, but also taking questions/concerns seriously and not making me feel stupid. Brigid Beehan based in Pt Chev. I had amazing post natal care from her and one of my friends is using her for her 2nd (on my recommendation) and is really happy with her care. She was great, she only works part time so takes less mums to be on so if you are keen get on to her quickly. Grey Lynn: Rhondda Kerrins. She delivered both my kids and i wouldnt of done it without her, she is AMAZING. Papakura/Pukekohe: Danielle North, Can't recommend her highly enough, she was brilliant! Waiuku/Pukekohe: Cathi Wintle, She is fantastic!! She saw me through both pregnancies and will see my through my next :) Pukekohe: RUTH DAVISON. She encouraged me with my VBA2C and we had a planned HB and are now having another HB for this bubs. Partly named my son after her as a tribute to what she helped me to achieve West Auckland: Angela Scott, Baby on the Way Midwives is AWESOME. Very thorough and just amazing while you are labouring. She does homebirth/home waterbirth as well and her back-up Rochelle is just as amazing and lovely. West Auckland: Midwives Independent - Heidi Copland 027 226 6655 (09) 420 7931 Covers helensville birthing centre, waitakere hospital, northshore hospital. Highly recommend her,shes been my midwife for both my last pregnancy and current,lovely lady couldnt ask for a better person to be in the care of during pregnancy and all:) West Auckland: Bunny Cummings, I haven't had my baby yet but she's just been awesome the whole way through my pregnancy! Plus i've heard other mums talk about her and never anything bad! West Auckland: Gail Kiss from Henderson (can't remember the name of the practice). She delivers at Waitakere Hospital and home births. She's got something like 12 years of obstetric emergency experience and she's very onto it from the medical perspective. I feel very safe in her hands. She's also caring, loves to exclaim over beautiful bumps and has a wicked sense of humour! East Auckland Howick: Catherine Overfield. I had her all the way through my last pregnancy , and she was good, I found her very nice, unfortunatly she wasn't at my son's birth (she was off for the weekend ) but a lady in my coffee group ended up with her during labour and she says she was very good ,calm , and reassuring etc Glen innes; I had Yvonne Daji for my second baby and she was AWESOME.She is beyond lovely, and was totally amenable to keeping me on, despite me moving 2 hours away from Auckland halfway through my pregnancy. She even offered me a stretch & sweep off her own bat at 39 weeks just to see if things were getting going (which they were!)I know quite a few OHBaby mums have used her as well. She is beyond lovely, and was totally amenable to keeping me on, despite me moving 2 hours away from Auckland halfway through my pregnancy. She was happy to let me commute for my appointments, and managed things perfectly for me. She even offered me a stretch & sweep off her own bat at 39 weeks just to see if things were getting going (which they were!) WAIKATO Hamilton: Colleen van der Laan, works out of Waterford. She is fantastic!! A lactation consultant as well, and an experienced NICU nurse as well. She was my sister's MW as well, I couldn't recommend her highly enough! Hamilton: Colleen van der Laan was my mw for number 1 & 2 and I her! She delivered Ollie, however I had her back up mw (Shelley Sjaarda) for Lilia's birth. Colleen is great because I felt I could ask her anything and she never made me feel silly, or like I was wasting her time. She was relaxed and friendly but also acted promptly and confidently when required (I had a PPH due to fully retained placenta with Ollie). Hamilton East: My MW Rebekah Tainui was absolutely brilliant and her backup Kathryn Duggan was also great. They both went above and beyond the call of duty. And even though I was handed over to the hospital for induction, Kathryn was still there for the birth of my boy. Shelley Sjaarda with number 3 as Colleen was out of the country. Again an excellent midwife who I have no hesitation in recommending. As with Colleen she is friendly and approachable, happy to 'see how we go on the day' but as she is also a RN I felt confident that had anything happened she could make the right decisions for me & my baby (nothing did happen though!). Dawn McHugh - HIGHLY RECOMMEND!! I don't live in Hamilton, but knew we were going to birth in Hamilton. We had so many issues with our local mw and so many complications. She would call me on my cell regularly to check up on me even though I wasn't under her care then and would go above and beyond. After the birth she drove all over Hamilton on a public holiday to buy me nipple shields and a cream to save us the trouble of doing it after a long drive home. She is completely focused on you and your needs. Will do whatever makes you feel comfortable and never make you feel bad for any decision you make. Therese James: She literally saved my babies life too!! Argued black and blue with the Register at the hospital for me to have an emergancy C-Section after Meconium and 32 hrs labour....finally got her way. If baby hadnt come then, we would have been dealing with an oxygen deprived bubba. She will forever be our angel. If you can get her (shes in high demand), you'd NEVER look back!! XX TAURANGA Bethlehem: Leigh O'neill from Bay Births. I've had her for both my pregnancies and she's fantastic. Really laid back, but incredibly switched on at the same time. She's always made me feel comfortable and at ease with any "bumps" along the way. Leigh was away when I delivered Hannah, so I had Pat Shanks, who I would rate incredibly highly, too. In fact, ANY of the ladies at Bay Births. They're all like-minded and work really well together as a supportive team. Tauranga/Mount/Papamoa/Te Puke: Andrea Smith, brilliant supportive MW, long appointments, fully engaged in your care the whole time. And Linda Steadman who delivered DS2, so brilliant, she does home antenatal visits and have had friends who highly recommend her. Waihi / Katikati : Belinda Beetham and Margaret Searancke are totally awesome. Margaret was my MW and the Birth was a lot easier with her. TE AROHA : Jen Hubbard from Aroha Midwifery - cover Morrinsville/Te Aroha/Paeroa (not sure of exact areas). She is just fantastic! TAUPO Sonia Ransom is an amazing midwife. Perfect for me as a first time mum. Fabulous at the birth - the minute she walked into the room I knew everything was okay. HAWKES BAY Teresa Cornes best i could have asked for wonderful! MANAWATU Otaki: Kim Porthouse from Otaki Midwifery, does any birth from home to palmy hospital and covers most of manawatu Palmerston North: Megan Holloway from Heretaunga Midwifery. I couldn't have wished for a better midwife, and bonus, she trained as a nurse before changing to midwifery so has a lot of great knowledge and experience. Palmerston North: Kendra Mackey: I’d like to recommend my wonderful midwife kendra..shes wonderful and I totally recommend her Palmerston North: Fiona McCrae: A fantastic midwife, I had a fantastic home birth through her I couldnt have had a better midwife. Palmerston North: Za Vivan: The second midwife at my homebirth. She was wonderful. Palmerston North:Cathy Symes. She is a wondeful lady and has birthed 3 of my babies... and i have just booked her in for #4! Yay! Palmerston North: Megan Holloway was fantastic! Very knowledgable and matter-of-fact. The only prob is I only saw her for probably just over half of my appointments (a locum often just met me at the clinic when I thought I was meeting megan)... When I did see her she was AWESOME!! Will def try to book her again one day :) South Wairarapa - midwife for number 1 was Kate Wilson. I'm now pregnant with #2 and Kate's was the first number I dialed! She's really lovely, down to earth and unflappable - she always manages to calm me down when I'm freaking out about things!! WELLINGTON Northern Suburbs: Michelle Vincent from Ngaio medical centre. She is just fantastic! The whole time. Michelle Vincent - based at Ngaio Medical centre, does Northern suburbs. She came highly recommended to us and so far (I'm 30 weeks and high risk) she has been FANTASTIC! -another Michelle Vincent fan. Kind, supportive and extremely open to all sorts of ways of birthing. already 1 million times better than my first mw Northern Suburbs: Margaret Hadley, from Capital City Midwives. She is very onto it (very experienced, was a nurse before a MW) she can be quite blunt, but you know where you stand with her and she is more than capable. Northern Suburbs (Johnsonville to Pukerua Bay): My midwife was through Birth Options and her name is: Victoria Panteleeva. Awesome midwife!!! Can't recommend her enough! -I second this! Victoria delivered DD for me and is my midwife again for this baby Hutt Valley/Whitbyish area: Christine Griffiths. I can't rave about her enough she was just awesome. Has been a MW / nurse for over 20 yrs knows what she is doing and doesn't pressure you to do anything you don't want to do. Lower Hutt: Julie Thompson - she was just fabulous in every possible way. I need to say that Jill Adamson is wonderful.I can remember what group in Lower Hutt she from. She is a great time with you when needed and also she great when things get stressful in labour keeps you calm. Her after care with you and baby is great as well. NELSON Lynn Hilden, an independant midwife who works out of the motueka birthing unit. Fantastic lady, orginally from England. She only takes on 2 or 3 ladies a month so has lots of time to see you. Very cruisey- into natural birthing but will take on anyone. I will be ringing her when we decide to have another one. http://www.nelsonmidwives.co.nz/midwife.php?id=14 NORTH CANTERBURY Valerie Melling - Great midwife, does home births and hospital births. Highly recommend. She went out of her way to make my pregnancy and birth the best it could be. CHRISTCHURCH Halswell Village Midwives - Vicki De Grut. She was just awesome! Was recommended to me by a friend who also loved her! I still miss her. She was just so easy to get along with. I could txt her whenever I had a question and she was always quick to txt/ring me back. Will definitely be using her for #2! Jacqui Newell from Birth Choice Wendy Walton of Midwifery Associates . I can highly recommend Wendy. Bubs isn't born yet, but the level of care I've received to date is fantastic - I can't rave about her enough. Jacqui Newell - wasnt my MW but as a friend was always there to answer questions for me and reassure me. If I had lived in CHCH I would have transferred to her for sure! TIMARU Dianne Cox (independant) .This is my first and she's always fielding anxious phone calls from me, and last week i burst into her office to ask tearfully if she can use her heartbeat magic stick because im convinced somethings wrong and she did straight away without fuss and even ordered blood tests that im sure i didnt need but reassured me. Shes lovely and friendly and spends lots of time on you and i think she's been practicing for over 20 years DUNEDIN Jennie Crawshaw, She is fantastic (or at least i think so). And if you want a student id recommend Jane (littlebug from here) She is great too! Heather LaDell and Adrienne Mulqueen. can't speak highly enough of them. And i 2nd Jane (littlebug) as a student midwife. she is so lovely INVERCARGILL / SOUTHLAND Liz Whyte & Terryl McDowall (they work together) They have maximum experience and both are just so lovely & trustworthy!!! Great for homebirth, too!! Louise Hammond. I had Louise Hammond for 2nd pregnancy (isabella) She was a awesome midwife. Hutt Valley/Whitbyish area: Christine Griffiths. I can't rave about her enough she was just awesome. Has been a MW / nurse for over 20 yrs knows what she is doing and doesn't pressure you to do anything you don't want to do. Lower Hutt: Julie Thompson - she was just fabulous in every possible way. NELSON Lynn Hilden, an independant midwife who works out of the motueka birthing unit. Fantastic lady, orginally from England. She only takes on 2 or 3 ladies a month so has lots of time to see you. Very cruisey- into natural birthing but will take on anyone. I will be ringing her when we decide to have another one. http://www.nelsonmidwives.co.nz/midwife.php?id=14 NORTH CANTERBURY Valerie Melling - Great midwife, does home births and hospital births. Highly recommend. She went out of her way to make my pregnancy and birth the best it could be. CHRISTCHURCH Halswell Village Midwives - Vicki De Grut. She was just awesome! Was recommended to me by a friend who also loved her! I still miss her. She was just so easy to get along with. I could txt her whenever I had a question and she was always quick to txt/ring me back. Will definitely be using her for #2! Jacqui Newell from Birth Choice Wendy Walton of Midwifery Associates . I can highly recommend Wendy. Bubs isn't born yet, but the level of care I've received to date is fantastic - I can't rave about her enough. TIMARU Dianne Cox (independant) .This is my first and she's always fielding anxious phone calls from me, and last week i burst into her office to ask tearfully if she can use her heartbeat magic stick because im convinced somethings wrong and she did straight away without fuss and even ordered blood tests that im sure i didnt need but reassured me. Shes lovely and friendly and spends lots of time on you and i think she's been practicing for over 20 years DUNEDIN Jennie Crawshaw, She is fantastic (or at least i think so). And if you want a student id recommend Jane (littlebug from here) She is great too! Heather LaDell and Adrienne Mulqueen. can't speak highly enough of them. And i 2nd Jane (littlebug) as a student midwife. she is so lovely INVERCARGILL / SOUTHLAND Liz Whyte & Terryl McDowall (they work together) They have maximum experience and both are just so lovely & trustworthy!!! Great for homebirth, too!! Louise Hammond. 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Posted By: escadachic
Date Posted: 21 May 2011 at 1:01am
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Wellington(Johnsonville to Pukerua Bay)
My midwife was through Birth Options and her name is: Victoria Panteleeva. Awesome midwife!!! Can't recommend her enough! -------------
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Posted By: eassa
Date Posted: 21 May 2011 at 9:00am
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Posted By: Boni
Date Posted: 23 May 2011 at 11:29am
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If you are recommending your midwife, please copy and paste the list below and add your midwife recommendation to the appropriate area. Thanks.
NOTE: I have just fixed the list as some areas had been doubled up and it was doing my pregnant head in! :) AUCKLAND North Shore: Debbie Greenwood from Maternity Associates. She was wonderful, particularly with her post-natal care. NS: Delwyn Evans from Mat associates. Was amazing and came highly recommended. Nothing’s too much of a bother for her. Very friendly & relaxed. NS:Cherie Davis from Close to Nature. Great mw, always there for you whenever needed and no question is silly. She's booked me in for this pregnancy. Helena Humphries from Hibiscus coast Midwives - shes awesome - no bulls**t - had three babes of her own and is just a really nice chic. Is licensed for NSH and Waitak too Central:The Tui Team (Megan / Cherry) at Birthcare Parnell. They were both absolutely fantastic, reassuring, great follow up, available for me at any time, funny, really good at relaxing me, but also taking questions/concerns seriously and not making me feel stupid. Brigid Beehan based in Pt Chev. I had amazing post natal care from her and one of my friends is using her for her 2nd (on my recommendation) and is really happy with her care. She was great, she only works part time so takes less mums to be on so if you are keen get on to her quickly. Grey Lynn: Rhondda Kerrins. She delivered both my kids and i wouldnt of done it without her, she is AMAZING. Papakura/Pukekohe: Danielle North, Can't recommend her highly enough, she was brilliant! Waiuku/Pukekohe: Cathi Wintle, She is fantastic!! She saw me through both pregnancies and will see my through my next :) Pukekohe: RUTH DAVISON. She encouraged me with my VBA2C and we had a planned HB and are now having another HB for this bubs. Partly named my son after her as a tribute to what she helped me to achieve West Auckland: Angela Scott, Baby on the Way Midwives is AWESOME. Very thorough and just amazing while you are labouring. She does homebirth/home waterbirth as well and her back-up Rochelle is just as amazing and lovely. West Auckland: Midwives Independent - Heidi Copland 027 226 6655 (09) 420 7931 Covers helensville birthing centre, waitakere hospital, northshore hospital. Highly recommend her,shes been my midwife for both my last pregnancy and current,lovely lady couldnt ask for a better person to be in the care of during pregnancy and all:) West Auckland: Bunny Cummings, I haven't had my baby yet but she's just been awesome the whole way through my pregnancy! Plus i've heard other mums talk about her and never anything bad! West Auckland: Gail Kiss from Henderson (can't remember the name of the practice). She delivers at Waitakere Hospital and home births. She's got something like 12 years of obstetric emergency experience and she's very onto it from the medical perspective. I feel very safe in her hands. She's also caring, loves to exclaim over beautiful bumps and has a wicked sense of humour! East Auckland Howick: Catherine Overfield. I had her all the way through my last pregnancy , and she was good, I found her very nice, unfortunatly she wasn't at my son's birth (she was off for the weekend ) but a lady in my coffee group ended up with her during labour and she says she was very good ,calm , and reassuring etc Glen innes; I had Yvonne Daji for my second baby and she was AWESOME.She is beyond lovely, and was totally amenable to keeping me on, despite me moving 2 hours away from Auckland halfway through my pregnancy. She even offered me a stretch & sweep off her own bat at 39 weeks just to see if things were getting going (which they were!)I know quite a few OHBaby mums have used her as well. She is beyond lovely, and was totally amenable to keeping me on, despite me moving 2 hours away from Auckland halfway through my pregnancy. She was happy to let me commute for my appointments, and managed things perfectly for me. She even offered me a stretch & sweep off her own bat at 39 weeks just to see if things were getting going (which they were!) WAIKATO Hamilton: Colleen van der Laan, works out of Waterford. She is fantastic!! A lactation consultant as well, and an experienced NICU nurse as well. She was my sister's MW as well, I couldn't recommend her highly enough! Hamilton: Colleen van der Laan was my mw for number 1 & 2 and I her! She delivered Ollie, however I had her back up mw (Shelley Sjaarda) for Lilia's birth. Colleen is great because I felt I could ask her anything and she never made me feel silly, or like I was wasting her time. She was relaxed and friendly but also acted promptly and confidently when required (I had a PPH due to fully retained placenta with Ollie). Hamilton East: My MW Rebekah Tainui was absolutely brilliant and her backup Kathryn Duggan was also great. They both went above and beyond the call of duty. And even though I was handed over to the hospital for induction, Kathryn was still there for the birth of my boy. Shelley Sjaarda with number 3 as Colleen was out of the country. Again an excellent midwife who I have no hesitation in recommending. As with Colleen she is friendly and approachable, happy to 'see how we go on the day' but as she is also a RN I felt confident that had anything happened she could make the right decisions for me & my baby (nothing did happen though!). Dawn McHugh - HIGHLY RECOMMEND!! I don't live in Hamilton, but knew we were going to birth in Hamilton. We had so many issues with our local mw and so many complications. She would call me on my cell regularly to check up on me even though I wasn't under her care then and would go above and beyond. After the birth she drove all over Hamilton on a public holiday to buy me nipple shields and a cream to save us the trouble of doing it after a long drive home. She is completely focused on you and your needs. Will do whatever makes you feel comfortable and never make you feel bad for any decision you make. Therese James: She literally saved my babies life too!! Argued black and blue with the Register at the hospital for me to have an emergancy C-Section after Meconium and 32 hrs labour....finally got her way. If baby hadnt come then, we would have been dealing with an oxygen deprived bubba. She will forever be our angel. If you can get her (shes in high demand), you'd NEVER look back!! XX TAURANGA Bethlehem: Leigh O'neill from Bay Births. I've had her for both my pregnancies and she's fantastic. Really laid back, but incredibly switched on at the same time. She's always made me feel comfortable and at ease with any "bumps" along the way. Leigh was away when I delivered Hannah, so I had Pat Shanks, who I would rate incredibly highly, too. In fact, ANY of the ladies at Bay Births. They're all like-minded and work really well together as a supportive team. Tauranga/Mount/Papamoa/Te Puke: Andrea Smith, brilliant supportive MW, long appointments, fully engaged in your care the whole time. And Linda Steadman who delivered DS2, so brilliant, she does home antenatal visits and have had friends who highly recommend her. Waihi / Katikati : Belinda Beetham and Margaret Searancke are totally awesome. Margaret was my MW and the Birth was a lot easier with her. TE AROHA : Jen Hubbard from Aroha Midwifery - cover Morrinsville/Te Aroha/Paeroa (not sure of exact areas). She is just fantastic! TAUPO Sonia Ransom is an amazing midwife. Perfect for me as a first time mum. Fabulous at the birth - the minute she walked into the room I knew everything was okay. HAWKES BAY Teresa Cornes best i could have asked for wonderful! MANAWATU Otaki: Kim Porthouse from Otaki Midwifery, does any birth from home to palmy hospital and covers most of manawatu Palmerston North: Megan Holloway from Heretaunga Midwifery. I couldn't have wished for a better midwife, and bonus, she trained as a nurse before changing to midwifery so has a lot of great knowledge and experience. Palmerston North: Kendra Mackey: I’d like to recommend my wonderful midwife kendra..shes wonderful and I totally recommend her Palmerston North: Fiona McCrae: A fantastic midwife, I had a fantastic home birth through her I couldnt have had a better midwife. Palmerston North: Za Vivan: The second midwife at my homebirth. She was wonderful. Palmerston North:Cathy Symes. She is a wondeful lady and has birthed 3 of my babies... and i have just booked her in for #4! Yay! Palmerston North: Megan Holloway was fantastic! Very knowledgable and matter-of-fact. The only prob is I only saw her for probably just over half of my appointments (a locum often just met me at the clinic when I thought I was meeting megan)... When I did see her she was AWESOME!! Will def try to book her again one day :) South Wairarapa - midwife for number 1 was Kate Wilson. I'm now pregnant with #2 and Kate's was the first number I dialed! She's really lovely, down to earth and unflappable - she always manages to calm me down when I'm freaking out about things!! WELLINGTON Northern Suburbs: Michelle Vincent from Ngaio medical centre. She is just fantastic! The whole time. Michelle Vincent - based at Ngaio Medical centre, does Northern suburbs. She came highly recommended to us and so far (I'm 30 weeks and high risk) she has been FANTASTIC! -another Michelle Vincent fan. Kind, supportive and extremely open to all sorts of ways of birthing. already 1 million times better than my first mw Northern Suburbs: Margaret Hadley, from Capital City Midwives. She is very onto it (very experienced, was a nurse before a MW) she can be quite blunt, but you know where you stand with her and she is more than capable. Northern Suburbs (Johnsonville to Pukerua Bay): My midwife was through Birth Options and her name is: Victoria Panteleeva. Awesome midwife!!! Can't recommend her enough! -I second this! Victoria delivered DD for me and is my midwife again for this baby Hutt Valley/Whitbyish area: Christine Griffiths. I can't rave about her enough she was just awesome. Has been a MW / nurse for over 20 yrs knows what she is doing and doesn't pressure you to do anything you don't want to do. Lower Hutt: Julie Thompson - she was just fabulous in every possible way. I need to say that Jill Adamson is wonderful.I can remember what group in Lower Hutt she from. She is a great time with you when needed and also she great when things get stressful in labour keeps you calm. Her after care with you and baby is great as well. NELSON Lynn Hilden, an independant midwife who works out of the motueka birthing unit. Fantastic lady, orginally from England. She only takes on 2 or 3 ladies a month so has lots of time to see you. Very cruisey- into natural birthing but will take on anyone. I will be ringing her when we decide to have another one. http://www.nelsonmidwives.co.nz/midwife.php?id=14 NORTH CANTERBURY Valerie Melling - Great midwife, does home births and hospital births. Highly recommend. She went out of her way to make my pregnancy and birth the best it could be. CHRISTCHURCH Halswell Village Midwives - Vicki De Grut. She was just awesome! Was recommended to me by a friend who also loved her! I still miss her. She was just so easy to get along with. I could txt her whenever I had a question and she was always quick to txt/ring me back. Will definitely be using her for #2! Jacqui Newell from Birth Choice Wendy Walton of Midwifery Associates . I can highly recommend Wendy. Bubs isn't born yet, but the level of care I've received to date is fantastic - I can't rave about her enough. Jacqui Newell - wasnt my MW but as a friend was always there to answer questions for me and reassure me. If I had lived in CHCH I would have transferred to her for sure! TIMARU Dianne Cox (independant) .This is my first and she's always fielding anxious phone calls from me, and last week i burst into her office to ask tearfully if she can use her heartbeat magic stick because im convinced somethings wrong and she did straight away without fuss and even ordered blood tests that im sure i didnt need but reassured me. Shes lovely and friendly and spends lots of time on you and i think she's been practicing for over 20 years DUNEDIN Jennie Crawshaw, She is fantastic (or at least i think so). And if you want a student id recommend Jane (littlebug from here) She is great too! Heather LaDell and Adrienne Mulqueen. can't speak highly enough of them. And i 2nd Jane (littlebug) as a student midwife. she is so lovely INVERCARGILL / SOUTHLAND Liz Whyte & Terryl McDowall (they work together) They have maximum experience and both are just so lovely & trustworthy!!! Great for homebirth, too!! Louise Hammond. I had Louise Hammond for 2nd pregnancy (isabella) She was a awesome midwife. Hutt Valley/Whitbyish area: Christine Griffiths. I can't rave about her enough she was just awesome. Has been a MW / nurse for over 20 yrs knows what she is doing and doesn't pressure you to do anything you don't want to do. Lower Hutt: Julie Thompson - she was just fabulous in every possible way. ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: kellishayx
Date Posted: 23 May 2011 at 3:25pm
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I highly recommend Deborah Young! She is calm, friendly, easy going person. Even though she is young, she has plenty of experience and is very confident.
She is in the Manukau area. I had a problem with low papp a result from my blood test and was basically crying my eyes out going to different medical centre asking what is going on. No one could tell me other than telling me to do another blood test. I didn't have a midwife at the time and thought I should start looking. I found Deborah and told her about my concern of low papp a and she basically made a few calls around and gave me an answer within 30 mins! |
Posted By: Brunettie86
Date Posted: 23 May 2011 at 3:43pm
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Can anyone suggest someone in South Otago? I found Holly McMillan on Otago Midwives, she sounds ok - has anyone heard of her? ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: kiwiking
Date Posted: 21 June 2011 at 8:13pm
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Any MW recommendations for Rotorua? Preferably one that won't frown upon a homebirth?
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