June 23rd, 2008 at 12:20 am
After finding out we were moving to Palmerston North from Blenheim at the beginning of this year, I set about trying to find a midwife for the birth of our first child. I was given Kelly’s contact details through the Maternity Resource Centre so thought I would give her a call. We met Kelly when I was 28 weeks pregnant and she had this way of making us feel at ease and that we could trust her yet still have a joke with her, extremely important to us considering what we were about to do becoming first time parents. I was missing the midwife I had in Blenheim and wished she could have moved up here with us for the birth but when we met Kelly that soon dissappeared, it was like she had been with us for the entire pregnancy. Kelly was the midwife for us. Her way of staying calm in a tricky situation was tested on April 21 when a 9lb 10oz baby boy decided he didn’t want to enter the world without some drama, Kelly remained calm and at no point did we feel there was any danger or anything wrong even when she calmly asked Jason to push the big red button on the wall (which so happened to cause 9 people to come tearing into the room at full speed).
We have missed the visits from Kelly (the last one was the hardest, if not a little emotional for me) and the advice she has given us over the time we were in her care, even the silly little questions that she always made time to answer and she always made sure we understood everything that was happening with the experience of having a child.
We definately recommend Kelly to anyone who is having a child in Palmerston North and if we are still here when it is time for number 2 to come along then we will be hunting Kelly down to be our midwife again.
Thank you Kelly for the opportunity to get to know you and for all you invaluable help with bringing Angus into our lives.
We miss you heaps and best of luck for the future.
Lots of love and hugs
Karina, Jason and Angus
