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Pregnancy Midwife - Palmerston North, Linton,
Fielding, Ashurst - Manawatu, New Zealand
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Helen
Maxwell-Blake - Nga Rauru, Ngati Mutunga, Ngati Kuri &
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KIA
ORA
About
Me
 My
name is Helen Maxwell-Blake. I am a Registered Midwife with
a Bachelor of Midwifery Degree from Massey University. I work
as an Independent Midwife and offer complete midwifery care
to women and their whanau living in Palmerston North, Feilding,
Ashhurst and Linton.
My Personal Commitment to You
I
live in Palmerston North with my husband and our two sons aged
11 and 6. My husband works in education at Te Wananga o Aotearoa
and our boys both attend Te Kura Kaupapa Maori O Mana Tamariki.
I am committed to providing whanau-centred care. I strongly
believe in continuity of care between myself and the women I
care for and have come to see how it builds trusting and empowering
partnerships between us. I will support and help you to make
decisions that best suit you and your whanau and look forward
to supporting you in your choice and ability to birth as naturally
as possible.
My services are as follows:
> 24 hour urgent availability
> Free pregnancy testing
> Pre-conceptual advice
> Whanau centred continuity of care
> Professional information to enable you to make informed
decisions
> Advice, support and care throughout your pregnancy, labour
and after birth for up to six week for you and your baby
> Ongoing assessments for both you and baby
> Home or clinic antenatal visits
> Consultation with a specialist should complications arise
at anytime in your pregnancy, labour and birth or postnatal
period
> Birthing options of hospital care, home and / or water
birth
> Breastfeeding advice and assistance
> Referral to a Well Child Provider / Iwi Provider and G.P
> Early discharge home (if requested) if you birth in hospital
> Professional contraceptive advice
Midwives
“Midwives provide safe, women-focused services that
families can trust”
Midwives are specialists in pregnancy and childbirth. They complete
a three-year degree known as the ‘Bachelor of Midwifery’
in order to gain the knowledge, skills and experience they have
to provide safe and professional midwifery care.
Midwives practice in different settings. They work in the community
and provide birth care at home, in birthing units and in hospitals.
Midwives provide free maternity care to all eligible women in
New Zealand and over 75% of women today have a midwife as their
Lead Maternity carer (LMC).
Midwives in New Zealand work in a partnership model of care
with women. In this model each woman and her midwife are partners,
working together to ensure that the woman has care that best
meets her individual needs. The woman and the midwife get to
know each other well over the whole maternity experience, building
a relationship of trust with each other, sharing information
and decision-making and recognising the active role that both
play in the woman’s maternity care.
(NZCOM, 2007)
Contact
Details
Mobile:
021 731 526
Pager: 026 355 5044
Email: helen@manawatumidwife.co.nz
Links
www.mamaternity.org.nz
Palmerston North Maternity Resource Centre
www.midwife.org.nz
New Zealand College of Midwives
www.ngamaia.co.nz
Maori midwifery
www.plunket.org.nz
Plunket
www.parentscentre.org.nz
Parents Centre
www.lalecheleague.org.nz
Laleche |
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GALLERY |
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John
enjoying time with his beautiful son Te Rahikoi |
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Te
Rahikoi Rickard |
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Tiama
Potts |
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Joanna
with her gorgeous baby girl, Capri |
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The
intimate touch of father and son |
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Kohu
and Te Mauri welcoming their sister Putorino to their whanau |
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Putorino,
in the arms of her parents Hohepa and Whare |
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Putorino
Isaac-Sharland |
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