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I have been a midwife for eight years. Prior to midwifery, worked in the Health sector as a Physiotherapist for over twenty years. I live in Hamilton with my husband and two of my three sons. I have worked as an LMC, a brief stint as a core Midwife and am currently in my third year as a Midwifery Educator at Wintec.

I am passionate about caring for wāhine and whānau. I am also passionate about the midwifery profession and educating the midwives of tomorrow, whom I hope will be the change makers of the future. I believe that midwives need to be future focused in our profession to keep it current and move into a dimension of sustainability and equity for midwives and the people that we care for.

I look forward to serving the midwifery community over the next few years in my role in the Waikato region.

I have been a Midwife for 9 years, in that time I have been an LMC, a Core Midwife and the Clinical Midwife Specialist for the Waikato Regional Diabetes Service.

Prior to becoming a Midwife, I was a Registered Nurse working primarily in the NICU at Waikato Hospital. I am currently working in urban Hamilton as an LMC, I continue to have a special interest in Diabetes care.

I am passionate about providing woman centred care and empowering women to make informed choices throughout their maternity journey.

I am a proud Mama of two amazing young people, seeing them grow and start to forge their own life paths brings me my greatest joy.

I love being a Midwife and look forward to contributing to the Midwife community in the Waikato Region.

I am excited to be in the midwifery space in the Waikato. Both midwifery and the Waikato are reasonably new to me. I am a kiwi who grew up in Nelson.  I ventured to the North Island in my early 20’s whilst working in the corporate world as a chartered accountant.

After having my two children my interest in midwifery was born and I decided to retrain when my family and I moved to the Waikato from Auckland to be closer to family. I am currently an LMC in central Hamilton and look forward to making a valuable difference to the woman and whanau I am lucky enough to walk alongside.

I am happy to be putting both my accounting and midwifery skill sets to use in my role as treasurer for the Waikato region.