Maggie Banks is a home birth midwife, researcher and writer living in the Waikato, New Zealand. She had her first book “Breech Birth Woman Wise” published in 1998. Following this Maggie wrote “Home Birth Bound: Mending the Broken Weave” in 2000. She is a founding member of the New Zealand College of Midwives and established the Midwifery Standards Review process in the Waikato.