BARRETT,
Lisa - Crafers
Home: 08 8339 1241, Mobile: 0439 802 937, Email:lisa(at)jelikin.org,
www.homebirth.net.au
My name is Lisa Barrett;
I have been a midwife for over 20 years. I trained in the UK and work
there gaining experience both being in charge of a maternity unit
and in the community until 2002 when myself my husband and our 4 children
made the big decision to move to Australia.
As part of coming to this Country I was expected
to work inside the system and was in charge of the maternity unit
at Ashford hospital. I did this for 2 years as was expected of me
and once I became a permanent resident of Australia I once again started
working in the community.
I provide a one on one midwifery service in the
comfort of your own home throughout your pregnancy labour and birth
and in the postnatal period.
I believe that pregnancy is a natural part of the
life cycle and not an illness. Having a midwife who is a specialist
in normal healthy pregnant women it the best way to have a beautiful
fulfilling and gentle birth.
Birthing at home with a midwife has proven to be
safe if not safer than birthing in the hospital environment where
fear is high. This alone can hinder the birth process. Throughout
your pregnancy together we learn about your body and your baby, you
become familiar with what is happening and will have total knowledge
of the birth process making you 100% confident in the knowledge that
birthing your baby is a normal event. In your own home with friends
and family around you birth is truly the miracle of life not a traumatic
medical situation.
After the baby is born. As you and the newest member
of your family get to know each other and establish breast-feeding.
I call every day in the first week to ensure your health and well
being, help with any initial problems and am on hand 24 hours a day
for advice. Then over the next few weeks I call regularly to check
your progress. Then I call weekly for 6 weeks but which time your
transformation into new mum or larger family is complete.
I am experienced in all types of birth and this
includes birthing at home with babies in a breech position, twins
and birth after caesarean. All women deserve one to one midwifery
care during their confinement I don’t believe it is restrictive.
Anyone who believes that want and need this service should be entitled
to get it.
GARRATT,
Julie - Woodside
Mobile: 0404 370 701, Home: 08 8389 7887, Email:juliegarratt(at)ihug.com.au>
Hi, my name is Julie Garratt and I am a midwife, wife and the mother of three beautiful young men.
I live in Woodside in the Adelaide hills.
Like all the midwives here I believe BIRTH IS A NATURAL LIFE EVENT and humans have perfected it over thousands of generations.
All women should be given the opportunity to birth undisturbed where they feel safe and nurtured.
I also have a strong focus on partner inclusive practice and respect that birth has a profound effect on all involved.
Apart from homebirths, I’ve worked at Mt Barker hospital, in rural continuity of care in Chrystal Brook,
as a birth centre midwife in a tertiary hospital and spent time at a charity birthing centre in the Philippines
(helping up to six women birth in a single 12 hour shift) not ideal but quite an adventure!
I can offer you antenatal care, childbirth and parenting information. Homebirth or support in hospital.
I can provide extensive postnatal and breastfeeding support as well as use of a birthing pool, belly casting and birth photography if you would like.
These services as in all things are negotiated in partnership with you. Your birth, your way.
My contact details are, Mobile: 0404370701 Home: 83897887 Email: juliegarratt(at)ihug.com.au
SMART-VAHER,
Rosey - Willunga
Home: 08 8556 2606, Mobile: 0404 174 858, Email: roseymidwife(at)gmail.com
I am a midwife and mother of 4.
I did my midwifery training in SA at the QVH in
1975 and I attended my first homebirth in 1977. I have been involved
in the homebirth movement intensely and on the fringe since then not
always taking on births due to family responsibilities.
I spent 3 years in Tennant Creek in the early
90's working at ANYINGINYI CONGRESS with WOMENS BUSINESS supporting
Aboriginal women to birth and supporting the women to care for the
young mothers. These 3 years were intense and I still miss my time
there even 14 years on! I learnt a great deal about myself and women
and birth, and this learning underpins my current learning
I will support women to birth in the venue of their
choice and am totally committed to HOMEBIRTH. I had 3 of my 4 babies
at home and the last was born in a birth centre with my own midwife
because we didn't have a home after coming back from Tennant Creek!
I am available to work with families who are committed
to developing their own birth plan with information they have researched
and require them to make informed decisions. I have a wealth of experinece
and can offer anecdotes when required.
ABOVE ALL I BELIEVE BIRTH IS
A NORMAL LIFE EVENT!!
My preferrance is to birth in the southern suburbs,
as far North as the city, YET i do make exceptions for various reasons
that may not be clear to others.
Midwives Attending Homebirths in SA...
These women may only work part time or may balance
their private midwifery practice with other work. They may be avaliable
to care for you for planned homebirths and some will also accompany
you for births in other settings.
DONNELLAN-FERNANDEZ,
Roz - Hawthorndene
Home: 08 8278 1429, Mobile: 0417 851 883, Email: elduende(at)chariot.net.au
Roz is a mother and community midwife who has maintained
a clinical caseload midwifery practice since 1994. Through this practice
she provides comprehensive continuity of antenatal, birthing and postnatal
midwifery care to women and their babies in the home, hospital and
community. She has also regularly facilitated Active Birth Workshops
in Adelaide over the past 12 years in conjunction with Coast Yoga
Centre, in addition to providing guest lectures and placements for
undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery students at both Flinders
Uni and Uni SA.
Roz believes childbirth is a significant and transformational
event in a woman and families life. She is certified (and recertified
3 times) with the Australian College of Midwives nationally as an
Accredited Independent Practising Midwife, and is also a certified
Lactation Consultant with the International Board of Lactation Consultants.
She has held clinical privileges / admitting rights at 2 tertiary
referral maternity hospitals in Adelaide prior to the national withdrawal
of professional indemnity insurance for midwives in mid 2001. Despite
this she maintains a small private community midwifery practice, attending
births in both homes and hospitals, and is currently Joint Midwifery
Unit Head of the expanding Midwifery Group Practices at the Children,
Youth & Women’s Health Service, a public continuity midwifery
model.
Roz is also highly politically active, believing
that the status and health of women and infants is integrally linked
to strengthening professional, legislative and industrial frameworks
for midwifery that enable choice, safety, and quality of maternity
service delivery for Australian families. As such, Roz has served
as a member of the Australian National Education Standards Taskforce
for Midwifery, 3 consecutive years as an elected member on the Nurses
Board of South Australia (currently Deputy Chair), currently Chair
of the NBSA inaugural Midwifery Committee and a founding member of
the Australian Midwives Act Lobby Group. Roz is committed to regulatory
reform that acknowledges the status of midwifery as a profession in
its own right, including a nationally consistent legislative framework
in line with COAG initiatives. She also continues to advocate for
structural funding reforms in the health sector that would enable
transparent private and public rebates for midwifery care provided
to families in Australia.
Roz has undertaken tertiary studies in law,
nursing and midwifery, and completed a Masters Degree in Women’s
Health in 1996. She completed her initial midwifery education at the
Queen Victoria Hospital in 1992, following on with a graduate year
in 1993. Prior to this she has worked in the 1980’s as a mental
health nurse in SA and general nurse in her home state of Queensland
in both rural and metropolitan settings.
GILLETT, Jennifairy - Mt Barker
Home: 08 8391 5542, Mobile: 0415 915 110, Email:jennifairy(at)internode.on.net
GRIGG-SMITH, Milly - Willunga
Home: 08 8556 4490, Mobile: 0422 708 549, Email: grigg-smith(at)bigpond.com
HEAYSMAN, Leonie - Trott Park
Home: 08 8387 4336, Mobile: 0408 807 248, Email: leonieheaysman(at)hotmail.com
NOLAN,
Larissa - Fulham
Home: 08 8356 1890, Mob: 0404 446 122, Email: midwife(at)iinet.net.au
I have 3 beautiful girls - Callie 6.5yrs, Jaida
4.5yrs and Bridie 3yrs. Bridie was born at home in the water, while
Jaida and Callie were born at Flinders Medical Centre in the birth
centre.
My passion is being a Midwife attending homebirths
but at the moment this is a much smaller part of my life - I would
love it to increase and become my main focus!!! I also work part time
at the WCH in the Midwifery Group Practice. Midwifery is in my blood
- I have a few relatives who are/were midwives so I guess I was born
a midwife ;) I supported women as a Doula for a short while before
formally becoming a midwife. Since then I have worked at Flinders
Medical Centre and currently at the Women's and Children's. In my
student days I also got to observe much of Adelaide's private maternity
care system which really opened my eyes!
My practice is based on the fundamental faith that
women who are supported and feel safe will birth their babies given
the time and space to do so. As women we could not have gotten this
far through evolution if our bodies didn't know how to give birth!!
AND I am a secret lover of karaoke and a good book accompanied by
yummy chocolate – but these are my secrets – so don’t
tell anyone!
SMALLWOOD, Tania - Stirling
Home:
08 8339 4074, Mobile: 0418 811 814, Email: tan1969(at)tpg.com.au
I have 2 boys, Sam who is 9 and Jake who is nearly
7 who were both born at home in water with our lovely midwife Roz.
I completed my midwifery education ‘between babies’ after
a short but illustrious career as a general and psychiatric nurse!
I am currently available to birth with women choosing out-of-hospital
birth, and am happy to provide information and support to women choosing
hospital birth too, or to women and families who are just starting
out on their pregnancy journey and feeling their way.
My motto is that if you don’t know what your
options are, you don’t have any, and I’m passionate about
women having access to good information so they can know what all
their options are, and be able to weigh up all the risks and benefits
before making decisions.
I’m also involved in the day-to-day workings
of the Birth Matters group and teach the “Natural Birth and
Waterbirth” course every 3 months at WEA with Lareen Newman,
which has been a huge success. See the WEA website at http://www.wea-sa.com.au/
for further details.
Midwives not currently in private practice...
These midwives are currently not actively attending
planned homebirths, however are still contactable for information
and advice, and may provide other services which may be of use.
PRIDE,
Rose - Windor Gardens
Mobile: 0432 514 772, Email: rose-brooke(at)hotmail.com
I trained here in S.A as a Midwife and after working
in a hospital for a couple of years I moved to New Zealand with my
partner so I could work as a Lead Maternity Carer (Independent Midwife).
While working there I birthed with women in their homes, returning
to my home (S.A.) in 2007 to have my own baby. Now 8 months old, Lilly
was a breech homebirth attended by Lisa Barrett.
I am very passionate about the strengths of women
and their families, and the awakening and healing powers of home birthing.
My aim as a midwife is to return the control to women and their families
so they can create the experience they desire.
I am a Midwife - “with woman” - and
currently attend 1 homebirth a month. Please don’t hesitate
to call or e-mail me for a chat.
BLEAKLEY, Anne - Mt Barker
Home: 08 8391 1524
MAIER, Belinda - Athelstone
Home: 08 8337 8515, Mobile: 0410 830 001, Email: bmaier(at)picknowl.com.au
MINGE, Debra - Heathfield
Home: 08 8339 3464, Mobile: 0402 766 756, Email: deb1minge(at)gmail.com
Midwifery-Led Services (April 2006)...
Midwifery
Group Practice, Women's and Children's Hospital (public)
72 King William Rd,
NORTH ADELAIDE SA
Phone: (08) 8161 7819 Email: cywhs.muhmgp(at)cywhs.sa.gov.au
Midwife-led continuity of carer model, offering
known midwife plus back-up midwife through pregnancy, birth and first
six weeks postnatal. Midwife consults with obstetric and other staff
as needed. Takes women of all risk categories, but limited to about
1,000 women per year, some geographical limits apply. Care provided
in community, home and hospital. Book in via first appointment with
Women's Outpatients Clinic on (08) 8161 7592. Waterbirth and VBAC
supported . No charges to public patients. No private patients or
GP-share care: care is midwife-led.
Midwifery
Group Practice, Queen Elizabeth Hospital (public)
28 Woodville Road, WOODVILLE SOUTH SA
Phone: 08 8222 6000, Email: aurianne.webber(at)nwahs.sa.gov.au
Midwife-led continuity of carer model, offering
known midwife plus back-up midwife through pregnancy, birth and first
six weeks postnatal. Midwife consults with obstetric and other staff
as needed. Takes women of all risk categories. Antenatal and postnatal
care provided in community, home and hospital; women currently go
to birth at Women's & Children's Hospital. Book in via first appointment
with Women's Outpatients Clinic on (08) 8161 7592. Waterbirth and
VBAC supported; No charges to public patients; No private patients
or GP-share care: care is midwife-led.
Southern Midwifery Group Practice, Flinders Medical
Centre, SA (public)
Phone Flinders Birth Centre for details: (08) 8204
5511
Planned to start July 2006, to give 450 women per
year care from one known midwife through whole of pregnancy, birth
and postnatal period.
Northern Women's Community Midwifery Program (public)
28 Philip Highway, ELIZABETH SA
Phone: (08) 8252 3711
Offers known midwife plus back-up through pregnancy,
birth and first 4-6 weeks postnatal. Located within Northern Women's
Community Health Centre with close working relationships with psychologist,
domestic violence health worker, interpreters, etc. Midwife works
in collaboration with obstetric team at hospital. Program takes women
of all risk categories. Limited to 140 women per year, and only for
residents of council areas of Salisbury, Playford and Tea Tree Gully.
Antenatal, postnatal and birth care in community and home, and at
assessment unit at Lyell McEwin Hospital. Waterbirth, homebirth and
VBAC supported; No charges to public patients; No private patients
or GP-share care: care is midwife-led.
Birth Centre, Flinders Medical Centre (public)
Flinders Drive, BEDFORD PARK SA
Phone: (08) 8204 5511
Team of 6-8 midwives works a rotating shift roster
to provide antenatal, labour, birth and postnatal care to women who
have "normal" pregnancies. Midwifery philosophy, woman-centred
and woman-led care, but no continuity of carer (however, MGP with
own midwife is replacing the Birth Centre from July 2006). Waterbirth
supported - large baths and experienced midwives; VBAC in labour ward
only; no charges to public patients.
Birthing Unit, Lyell McEwin Health Service (public)
Haydown Road, ELIZABETH VALE SA
Phone: (08) 8182 9000
Midwifery-led continuity of carer program in pregnancy
and at birth in low risk room. Deep baths available. Home midwifery
service and free "Mothercarer" service for up to 6 days
postnatal. One-on-one midwifery care (continuity of carer) and homebirth
possible for women receiving care through the Northern Women's Community
Midwifery Program (NWCMP), who may also birth at this Birth Centre
with their NWCMP midwife; No charges to public patients.
Mt Barker District Hospital (public)
Wellington Road, MOUNT BARKER SA
Phone: (08) 8393 1777
May commence Midwifery Group Practice - phone
for details. Currently has community midwife providing postnatal visits
at home, but pregnancy care is GP-led. No charges. Baby-Friendly Accredited.
Modbury Public Hospital (public)
41-69 Smart Rd, MODBURY SA
Phone: (08) 8264 6000
Same midwife for each prenatal visit by request,
but not same midwife for birth. Home-visiting midwives for pre and
postnatal visits also.
Gawler Health Service (public)
21 Hutchinson Road, GAWLER EAST SA
Phone: (08) 8521 2369
Antenatal care on-site with a midwife for 'low
risk' women. Midwifery care for labour/birth; midwife consults with
obstetric and other staff as needed. May see same midwife in labour/postnatal
as antenatal midwives also work with inpatients. Community midwifery
provides home visiting after discharge, up to 10 days.
Community Midwifery Service, Lower Eyre Health Service
(public)
Tumby Bay Road, Cummins & Esplanade, TUMBY
BAY SA
Phone: (08) 8688 2629
One midwife provides pre-and postnatal care, may
also attend births at Cummins or Port Lincoln hospitals, or births
may be attended by other hospital midwives.
Port Augusta Community Midwifery Programme (public)
Port Augusta Hospital &
Regional Health Services, Hospital Rd, PORT AUGUSTA SA
Phone: (08) 8648 5500
Being established to take 20 women per year; includes
special clinic for Indigenous women with Aboriginal Health Workers
also involved in care.
Whyalla Community Midwifery Programme (public)
The Whyalla Hospital & Health Service, Wood
Terrace, WHYALLA SA
Phone: (08) 8648 8300
Being established to take 20 women per year at
each site; includes special clinic for teenage mothers.
THORNTON,
Wendy – Hahndorf
WILLIAMS,
Kathryn – Sellicks Beach