I really shouldn’t have had that coffee in bed and got up earlier instead. It amazes me how we set the alarm for the exact amount of...

So the switch flicked and my multip called soon after posting my last blog. I’d just got home from my clinic day and she rang at the...

Actually there’s no carnage - well no more than normal - it’s a small lie to make you all engage. A bit like when a client leaves a...

Midwives often work with women who are living with disadvantage, we see the daily reality of those women who are faced with transport and...

“Starlight, Starbright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have this wish I wish tonight.” Technically it’s 4.45am,...

I have a client whose Nan always calls me ‘the nurse’. She shouts “The nurse is here!” as she sees me walk up the path. Now no...

And just like that she’s gone. I’ve been dumped. My midwifery partner of the past six years has retired. Now after 18 years of being on...

After baby number four I finally made it to bed at 2am. This was after a 17 hour long, very mentally challenging work day, with one 30...

As I smugly sip gin in the sun, via my own home made glass, post mowing the lawns on this cracker of a day, I thought I would let you...

There’s been a pause on babies. But don’t worry. I can feel them out there, lurking. Those little gems are waiting, calmly chilling, till...

At 6.40 pm on Friday night the husband was still panicking about where we were going. “It hasn’t quite come to fruition yet” were his...

I’ve just started listening to an audiobook called The Pull of the Stars, by Emma Donaghue. It’s about a midwife in Ireland during the...

Well I said I’d let you know how I got on with that full nights sleep... I’m afraid the birthing goddesses had other ideas. Bed at ten,...

After I mentioned the toddler going for an unexpected dunking last week, so many stories about weird things falling in the pool at...

When your client is your friend, a midwife herself and it’s your third baby together, then all rules seem to go out the window. Boy have...

Thank you Kaikoura^ So we were free, then just like that we weren’t. The precedented times as they say are back. Like so many of us I was...

So I’m going out on a limb here to make a huge generalisation that ambulance officers dread being called to a birth. They either turn up...

The dreaded pregnancy end symptoms. We’ve all heard the stories of the woman who was in labour for four days, exhausted, kept ringing her...

Rural midwifery on a beautiful day like today is just awesome. Today I passed Kereru, Rosellas and wild fallow deer were even on the road...

Today my eldest turned 18, I crawled out of bed to wish him happy birthday before he left for work at seven and then got myself ready for...