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Victoria Copeland

After leaving it late to find a midwife I was fortunate enough to come across Kelly’s details through the Midwife4U website, and fortunately having just relocated to Palmerston North, she was able to take me on. Being a first time mum I had no expectations and everything was a learning curve. I was extremely lucky to have found a professional, caring and supportive midwife like Kelly, who ensured I was prepared as possible for the birth of my son.

Unfortunately when the time came I had various complications which resulted in my son being born by emergency caesarian and ventouse delivery. My problems didn’t end there, due to various factors I was unable to produce adequate breast milk and this is where Kelly’s professionalism, compassion and support was invaluable. Kelly went out of her way to assist me in finding treatments both mainstream medical and holistic to help with my particular problem and was extremely supportive throughout what was a very difficult time.

I highly recommend Kelly to any prospective parents who are looking for an easygoing and knowledgeable midwife who will make them feel at ease and show extreme patience, even when you are screaming “I can’t do this” in the middle of labour!

Again thank you so much for all you have done for me and Ben.

Take Care
Victoria

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Erin Guiney

I met Kelly in Lower Hutt when she was assigned my midwife. I was EXTREMLEY nervous about being a mum because it was my first child and I was only 17.

Kelly made sure that I was comfortable and that I was informed about everything that was happening and going to happen.

When it came to D-day I was 11 days overdue (they think), and really frustrated!! Kelly was there with me telling me about my progress. I ended up having a c-section at 12:49am my daughter Kady was born with a serious mop of hair on her head!!!

I am very grateful for Kelly’s help making the process so easy for me, being young and my first baby. I think shes an awesome midwife and reccommend her to any mum-2-be.

THANKS KELLY!!!

Testimonials, 2008/07/01 at 2:26 PM

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Karina, Jason & Angus McDonough

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

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Kelly Steven Georgia and Ryan

On mothers day this year we added a beautiful baby boy to our family. Ryan was born a healthy 8lb10oz with the help of Julie.

After a past horrendous experiance with another midwife when we had our daughter we were a little hesitant when it came to finding a midwife, but we had absolutely nothing to worry about. Julie was a fantastic help throughout the pregnancy. When it came time to labour and delivery she was very supportive and did everything in her power to make me feel at ease and when Ryan decided to grace the world posterier, she calmly talked me through it and managed to calm me down when i was losing it. Even when I was ‘ever so politely’ telling her it was a ‘tad painful’ and I wanted stronger drugs, she managed to get us there. (Thanks Julie) And when Ryan had to be taken to Neonatal for a while, she was very reasuring.

Because she was so nice we thought she could go home in time for a mothers day dinner!!! We have been dredding letting Julie leave us after the handover as she has become a permanant fixture in our family and our hearts and she will always be welcome anytime. (A few tears were shed on her final departure!!!)

We highly recommend Julie and the team to all couples having a child and wish you all the best. Thanks to Julie and her family for sharing her with us. All the best for the future. Lots of love from Kelly Steven Georgia and Ryan. xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

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Jacinda Younger

1. Jacinda Younger Says: May 6th, 2008 at 5:59 pm

We have recently had our first child with the help of Nelly Hooper as our midwife. This is just a quick note to anyone who is looking for a midwife who is extremely competent, experienced and articulate, Nelly’s your girl! (No she did not pay us to say that!!!!!)

We were naturally as first timers very nervous. We had read all there is to read, had a million questions and were I’m sure quite demanding patients in that regard. But Nelly reassured us that as first time parents we were 1. not complete freaks in being that way it was quite normal and 2. it was our right as parents to be to be completely neurotic!

Such reassurance I can tell you made all the difference! At no time did Nelly make us feel stupid or a pain in butt for wanting to ask all these questions and she absolutely understood that we were just trying to make educated decisions and do our best for our precious bundle.

For all of you first timers out there that are concerned about the process and how to know who is a fabulous midwife, I can assure you that Nelly was just fantastic! I can even say that having gone through the dreaded induction and thanx to Nelly come out of the other side with our perfect daughter and Mum unscathed!

Then after all that Nelly’s true form stepped up another notch even still as her support at home after the birth in offering non intrusive and “only asked for” advice and supporting our parenting decisions which were made with our childs very best interests in mind was just phenomenal, we simply could not have asked for more!

Also when “our Nelly” as she came to be known was on a weekend off, we were covered by Julie Carlyon or Bridget Henderson who were also fantastic and filled the gap with absolute professionalism, knowledge and were just wonderful.

All in all the team at Martin Street in general work so well together and you can rest assured that you are getting the “A Team” when it comes to this nerve wracking and precious time in your life.
Our very deepest thanx to them all.

Jacinda, Wayne and of course the wee tiger Claudia! xx

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