Comments on: Margaret Gardener http://homebirthmidwife.org.nz Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:05:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Leigh O'Malley http://homebirthmidwife.org.nz/our-midwives/margaret-gardener/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Leigh O'Malley Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:44:36 +0000 http://homebirthmidwife/?page_id=26#comment-326 Where to start. What an amazing midwife you are. Such a huge wealth of knowledge and experience!! And every question i asked you answered with freshness and enthusiasm as if you had never answered it before!! Always a joy to see you arrive at the front door. A beautiful joyful energy always came with!! So kind and generous with both your time, flexibility and knowledge. I highly reccomend Margaret without any hesitation Arohanui Margaret xx Where to start. What an amazing midwife you are. Such a huge wealth of knowledge and experience!! And every question i asked you answered with freshness and enthusiasm as if you had never answered it before!! Always a joy to see you arrive at the front door. A beautiful joyful energy always came with!!

So kind and generous with both your time, flexibility and knowledge.

I highly reccomend Margaret without any hesitation

Arohanui Margaret xx

]]> By: Fleur http://homebirthmidwife.org.nz/our-midwives/margaret-gardener/comment-page-1/#comment-285 Fleur Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:05:05 +0000 http://homebirthmidwife/?page_id=26#comment-285 Margaret is a fantastic midwife. She enabled me to have a beautiful water birth at home after a c-section 4 years previous. She included my 4 year old son in all prenatal visits and he learned a great deal about normal birth! Margarets gentle support and depth of knowledge helped me make the decisions that were right for me, my family and my unborn baby. She was also a great calming influence in those first really hard weeks! My baby is now 6 1/2 months old and I still get out the birth photos and fondly remember his birth. Thanks Margaret. Margaret is a fantastic midwife.
She enabled me to have a beautiful water birth at home after a c-section 4 years previous. She included my 4 year old son in all prenatal visits and he learned a great deal about normal birth!
Margarets gentle support and depth of knowledge helped me make the decisions that were right for me, my family and my unborn baby.
She was also a great calming influence in those first really hard weeks!
My baby is now 6 1/2 months old and I still get out the birth photos and fondly remember his birth.
Thanks Margaret.

]]> By: Margaret Gardener http://homebirthmidwife.org.nz/our-midwives/margaret-gardener/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Margaret Gardener Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:12:20 +0000 http://homebirthmidwife/?page_id=26#comment-70 I will post this as a 2nd comment. The 2nd book is the birth house by Ami McKay set in Nova Scotia Canada in the early 20th centurary. A very sobering novel about a traditional midwife and the effect of an obstetrician moving into the area and the farmers insurance In the back, & can be found on the web site a recipe for a groaning cake. "The tradition of the groaning cake at a birth goes back a long way. Making the cake helps the labouring Mum focus on something positive in early labour and the aroma is said to help with strong labour pains. see the web site for other traditions surrounding the groaning cake but I love this one. If a family wants prospertiy and fertility, the father must pass pieces of cake to friends & family the first time the mother and baby are "churched" (or the 1st time they go to a public gathering) after a birth. www.thebirthhouse.com I will post this as a 2nd comment.
The 2nd book is the birth house by Ami McKay set in Nova Scotia Canada in the early 20th centurary.
A very sobering novel about a traditional midwife and the effect of an obstetrician moving into the area and the farmers insurance

In the back, & can be found on the web site a recipe for a groaning cake.
“The tradition of the groaning cake at a birth goes back a long way. Making the cake helps the labouring Mum focus on something positive in early labour and the aroma is said to help with strong labour pains.

see the web site for other traditions surrounding the groaning cake but I love this one.
If a family wants prospertiy and fertility, the father must pass pieces of cake to friends & family the first time the mother and baby are “churched” (or the 1st time they go to a public gathering) after a birth.

http://www.thebirthhouse.com

]]> By: Margaret Gardener http://homebirthmidwife.org.nz/our-midwives/margaret-gardener/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Margaret Gardener Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:56:47 +0000 http://homebirthmidwife/?page_id=26#comment-69 I have just read 2 wonderful birth books. The baby catcher by Peggy Vincent. A wonderful memoir of a home birth midwife in San Fransisco. It is a very readable book made up of birth stories from Peggy's view - the midwife. My favorite is the one about the cat. Peggy's dealing with a protective monster at a birth. It had me in tears with laughter. On a sober note if was wonderful reading how Peggy moved from a hospital environment to a home birth practice but finishes on a sad note as the midwives had to stop practicing as they couldn't get insurance. The book is in the Dunedin home birth library, now located at family planning, Hanover St. Dunedin. There are excerts in Peggys website www.babycatcher.net I have just read 2 wonderful birth books.

The baby catcher by Peggy Vincent. A wonderful memoir of a home birth midwife in San Fransisco. It is a very readable book made up of birth stories from Peggy’s view – the midwife. My favorite is the one about the cat. Peggy’s dealing with a protective monster at a birth. It had me in tears with laughter.

On a sober note if was wonderful reading how Peggy moved from a hospital environment to a home birth practice but finishes on a sad note as the midwives had to stop practicing as they couldn’t get insurance.

The book is in the Dunedin home birth library, now located at family planning, Hanover St. Dunedin.

There are excerts in Peggys website http://www.babycatcher.net

]]> By: Lara Liesbeth http://homebirthmidwife.org.nz/our-midwives/margaret-gardener/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Lara Liesbeth Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:16:44 +0000 http://homebirthmidwife/?page_id=26#comment-46 I hope this website is browsed by many, many women in Dunedin who are considering a homebirth. If that's you - you lucky thing! You've found the women who will help empower you in your pregnancy and birthing journey. Margaret was my midwife 4 times - 3 early miscarriages and one success!! Woohoo! I also have a 10 year old who was a homebirth in Christchurch. My babe is now 7 months old, and I'm sad that there will be no more, because that means no more Margaret! Margaret is an absolute professional who will listen to all you have to say. She is incredibly knowledgeable - I am convinced that without her knowledge of positions and hip manipulations, I would have been in hospital for a Cesarean - mine was a posterior baby who was a little reluctant to move. I cannot recommend Margaret and Tracy Botica enough. Thanks for helping us have our child by our terms! :) I hope this website is browsed by many, many women in Dunedin who are considering a homebirth. If that’s you – you lucky thing! You’ve found the women who will help empower you in your pregnancy and birthing journey. Margaret was my midwife 4 times – 3 early miscarriages and one success!! Woohoo! I also have a 10 year old who was a homebirth in Christchurch.

My babe is now 7 months old, and I’m sad that there will be no more, because that means no more Margaret!

Margaret is an absolute professional who will listen to all you have to say. She is incredibly knowledgeable – I am convinced that without her knowledge of positions and hip manipulations, I would have been in hospital for a Cesarean – mine was a posterior baby who was a little reluctant to move.

I cannot recommend Margaret and Tracy Botica enough. Thanks for helping us have our child by our terms! :)

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