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 Belinda Chapman
06-758 2180
• Supports births at home, in hospital/birth centre and waterbirths.
• Practices midwifery in New Plymouth area.
• Member of the NZ College of Midwives, regularly reviewed through the Midwifery Standards Review process.
Born in England, Belinda completed her nursing and midwifery training in London and Yorkshire. She lived in Scotland for 10 years before moving to New Zealand under the sponsorship of the Taranaki District Health Board in 1997.
Belinda and her husband, Ken, farm 30 acres. They have two daughters, both studying at tertiary level, and Belinda cherishes those special moments with her daughters when they are home! She also enjoys keeping fit through walking on the foreshore, gardening and body pump.
Belinda has an MA in Midwifery and is a lactation consultant. She is currently studying for a Certificate in Adult Education. Belinda has special interest in waterbirth, and in 2004 she had an article published on this topic in the NZ College of Midwives research magazine. Belinda has an interest in alternative therapies and has completed an online homeopathy course. She refers her clients to natural therapists if they choose alternative therapies to aid pregnancy and childbirth.
Belinda really enjoys the family-centred care in midwifery, watching families grow and flourish. She likes to be positive in caring for families and tries to keep pregnancy and childbirth normal. However, when childbirth moves outside the norm her priority is safety, with an outcome that is satisfying to the family.
 Sharon Robinson
06-765 4100 or 027-251 5373
• Supports births at home, in hospital/birth centre and waterbirths.
• Based in Stratford, covers Central Taranaki and outlying areas (including Whangamomona, Inglewood, Opunake and Normanby).
• Member of the NZ College of Midwives, regularly reviewed through the Midwifery Standards Review process.
Sharon was born and raised in the US, and lived in Tonga for 3 years as a child. She later lived and worked in Cambodia for two and a half years before moving to New Zealand. Sharon and her physiotherapist partner, Dave, now live a busy life on their Stratford farmlet with their three kids – all with ponies! She also enjoys theatre, volleyball, and her pigs!
Sharon has a BA in Physical Therapy and an MA in Midwifery, graduating in 2000 from the State University of New York. She was a physiotherapist for 12 years before training as a midwife in the Bronx and Brooklyn, New York.
Sharon says, “For me, midwifery feels more like a calling than a profession. I believe that we can positively impact society by the way we treat women and their families through pregnancy and birth. I believe that birth is sacred.”
Sharon is happy to meet with women before they decide on their LMC to help them ascertain whether the two of them feel like a “good match”. She has a special interest in helping women who have had particularly difficult previous birth experiences and in working with teenage mothers.
 Jan Goss
06-751 2025
• Supports births at home, in hospital/birth centre and waterbirths.
• Based in New Plymouth, covers Taranaki region.
• Member of the NZ College of Midwives, regularly reviewed through the Midwifery Standards Review process.
Jan was born in Wanganui before moving to New Plymouth to finish her schooling. After completing her nursing training in Hamilton, she returned to Taranaki to raise her family. She now has three adult sons with lovely partners and a new grandson. She’s also involved with local theatre and singing groups, and enjoys swimming, going to the gym, gardening, handcrafts and travel.
After 30 years’ nursing experience, Jan moved into independent midwifery in 1996. She also has a Diploma in Craniosacral Therapy, with a post-grad specialisation in mothers and babies. She finds this non-invasive therapy very useful throughout pregnancy and childbirth and with babies.
Jan feels midwifery came to her. She has a strong commitment to supporting the best possible outcome for mum and baby in as natural a setting as possible, but is comfortable in a medical setting if the need arises.
Jan sees herself as a facilitator in the woman’s process – the more informed the woman is, the better. Jan endeavours to support the woman’s decisions, keeping safety for mother and baby as top priority. She has a high commitment to supporting breastfeeding.
 Amanda Hinks
06-752 1112
• Supports births at home, in hospital/birth centre and waterbirths.
• She tries to keep to N.P and Okaura/Okata area but has clients in Opunake.
• Member of the NZ College of Midwives, regularly reviewed through the Midwifery Standards Review process.
Born in the UK in 1967, Amanda was raised in the London suburbs. She trained as a nurse at the Royal London Hospital 1986-1989and undertook an 18 month midwifery course which she completed in 1994 – after having two children!
Amanda, her husband Stewart, and two children Aaron 17 and Amber 15 decided to embark on a bit of an adventure and emigrated to N.P.
Her midwifery career has spanned 12 years and she has undertaken a wide variety of roles and responsibilities within the NHS in England. Latterly she was a lecturer in midwifery at the University of Greenwich.
She enjoys reading and ‘home making’ activities such as baking gardening and interior decorating and currently learning to ski.
Amanda was drawn to midwifery after developing an interest when her mum had a homebirth when she was five years old. She was not at the birth but enjoyed feeling the elation around the birth and it felt normal to have the birth at home. Amanda view’s childbirth as a normal and natural event.
 Katerina Hohaia
06-769 9651
Katerina was born in London. Her mother is Greek and her father Irish but was mostly raised in Auckland. She used to teach piano and violin.
What bought her to Taranaki? Well she married the father of her large
family, Te Miringa Hohaia, a man from Parihaka and so began thirty years of
family life in Parihaka. Te Miringa is the director of the Parihaka Peace
Festival. They have five children and fifteen grandchildren.
Katerina and her husband had three homebirths. The last one with only Te Miringa to assist (by choice).
In those years many people who wished a home birth had to get on and do it
with the assistance only of a support person. Katerina became such for many women
over the next twenty years and got known as a "lay midwife".
She graduated from AUT in 2004 as a midwife and is passionate about
homebirth.
Katerina says she wants the experience for the birthing women to be one of empowerment.
If there is going to be a problem it is usually shown up in the antenatal
period. So if none show up -nil interference is best.
She is passionate about her faith in a well body to do this job superbly.
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