Tag Archives: Authors
Karen is a women’s health activist and feminist midwife. In fact, this is what Karen has been doing for the last 30 years! She is currently the National Director of the […]
I completed my registered nurse training in Warrnambool, Victoria, in January 1987. After this I worked primarily in urban and rural/remote Indigenous communities of NT and Qld. I did this […]
Sally Tracy trained as a midwife in New Zealand following the birth of her fourth child. After she returned to Australia, Sally carried out research both in hospital and community […]
Susanne Houd is a Danish midwife with wide experience of working in both western settings and in developing countries. As a consultant for the WHO, she has worked on Safe […]
Sandy Kirkman has a broadly based midwifery career which spans England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. She is now the Principal Lecturer at in the School of Care Sciences, University of […]
Carolyn Hastie is a mother, grandmother, writer and midwife with a wealth of experience in all aspects of midwifery practice. Carolyn was the Midwifery Manager, Belmont Birthing Service and is […]
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 […]
Beatrijs Smulders is an independent midwife. Beatrijs plays a leading role not only in the development of midwifery and modern obstetrics in the Netherlands, but also in the preservation of the […]
The majority of Australian midwives will know of Pat Brodie because of her work in developing ‘midwife-led’ models of care with a primary health care focus. Indeed, some of her […]
Andrea Robertson was a childbirth educator since 1974. Having worked as an Occupational Therapist in both Australia and New York, following the birth of her two children she became active […]