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Feel free to list midwives in the South Island that you have used, and recommend them here!

I guess I have to recommend myself

Kathy Farquhar - Nelson Independent Midwife. You can contact me on 027 5812 620 or kathylh@xtra.co.nz

Midwifery is my absolute passion and I'd love to support you through a safe pregnancy, labour/birth and postnatal experience.

Hi - it's such a personal thing and I just clicked with my midwife - she was the 1st one we met and we just knew immediately.

Sue Nash is the midwife she works from Queen Mary in Dunedin and I found her down to earth and straight up. Well it went so well she has delivered all 3 of our boys! Our first was a hospital birth straightforward but long and the other two have been speedy but lovely homebirths. I always felt listened to, respected and supported. She was fantastic with my other children and family. I was quite sad to say goodbye when our last baby moved onto Plunket!

I simply have to recomment MICHELLE ARCHER from Dunedin. She was my back up midwife. I had never met her when I went into labour at 28 weeks. She called me in cause I was worried (some would have said wait). Turned out I was 3 cm dialated and the twins were on their way.

She was fab working with the hospital staff. I had a high intervention delivery, almost got sent to Aussie as the NICUs in NZ were full, she advocated for me and let me know what was going on. This was no easy task for her - as dealing with NICU, Peds, Obstrictrics are all a law unto themselves.

I ended up with a c-section under general, she checked my babies for me, checked on me, and followed up when I needed it.

If I had another bubs - she is who I would want :)

I would have to second Kathy's recommendation for herself! She delivered Jakeb into this world for me.

Other than her I ended up with Paula Braithwate for Kodi's birth. Unfortunately both herself and her back up were both caught up with births, so I had Suzi Hume come. I had never met Suzi before and here I was giving birth! She was just what I needed in a midwife, encouraged me through an amazing birth experience and I was very happy with the care and follow up recieved.

I had my baby in Brisbane but my midwife has since moved to the West Coast, I believe she got a job as the LMC for Westport or Hokitika. Her name is Yvonne Argent and I could not recommend her highly enough. She is nothing short of AMAZING! She has been a strong advocate of homebirth in Australia, has been a midwife for about 30 years, and is also really knowledgeable about herbs, creams, homeopathics, breastfeeding, the list goes on. I really don't think I could have made it through my natural homebirth without her. I am tempted to move to the West Coast to have my next baby just so she can be a part of it, no kidding!

I can highly recommend my mw, she is fantastic! Having 7 children herself she knows how it is. If you are in christchurch and looking for a mw call Wendy McFarlane 0273450421 or 03 9816213

I have heard fabulous things about Wendy and I am in Nelson!