About Beautiful Births Midwives

Heather LaDell, LMC Midwife

Heather is a registered midwife and registered nurse.  She worked in women's health advocacy and nursing for ten years before immigrating to New Zealand and training as a midwife.  She is delighted to be providing community-based LMC midwifery care in Dunedin.

Heather builds a caring and supportive relationship with each woman and  encourages informed decision-making.  Partners and families are welcome and actively involved in the birthing journey to the extent desired by the woman. 

Heather facilitates births in the gentlest way possible for each individual woman and situation. She is skilled in the art of nurturing women to find their strength to birth under their own power and with dignity.

"I was first inspired to become a midwife when I gave birth eleven years ago, and the idea grew as friends started to ask me for support through their pregnancies and births. I continue to be amazed by the wonder of giving birth, and feel a real calling to midwifery. Being with woman who are birthing and mothering is engaging, joyous and creative work and I love sharing the journey with other women."



Contact Heather by phone on  03 482 2586 or heather.ladell@gmail.com

Louise Bell, LMC Midwife and Homeopath

Louise has fifteen years’ experience as a hospital and community based midwife in London and New Zealand. In London, she was a team midwife at the St. John and St. Elizabeth’s Birth Unit which offered a holistic birthing environment for women and their families. There she focused on promoting normal physiological birth, supporting parenting, and using water and complimentary therapies such as herbs and homeopathy to encourage a gentle and beautiful birthing experience for women.

Louise and her family immigrated to New Zealand in 2002 and Louise took up an appointment as a midwife in Kew Hospital Invercargill. She also pursued her passion for homeopathy and completed a four-year Diploma Course in Homeopathy.

For the last five years Louise has worked as a midwife and antenatal educator at Dunedin Hospital, and has also developed her private practice as a homeopathic practitioner. She is excited to now be going back into community-based midwifery and combining her passions for homeopathy and midwifery.

I gave birth to my daughter Isabella using only the healing power of water and homeopathic remedies to quell my fears during her birth. It was an amazing experience. I know that giving birth and becoming a mother brings joy as well as challenges that enable growth on many levels. I believe in the power of women to give birth naturally and spontaneously following the body’s own innate wisdom. I believe in safekeeping birth and supporting your choices, helping you to trust, think, research and do what feels right and safe for you.

Contact Louise by phone on 03 478 0423 or e-mail

Pauline Moore, LMC Midwife

Pauline has returned to New Zealand after ten years in Perth, WA. As a registered nurse, she worked in the neonatal intensive care unit at King Edward Memorial Hospital and continued working at this hospital on completion of her midwifery qualification, in delivery suite and postnatal wards. Before returning to NZ in 2010, she had been part of a new initiative, an antenatal clinic developed specifically for women who have had a caesarean birth and who are pregnant again or considering another child (Next Birth after Caesarean).

For the last year Pauline has worked at Queen Mary Maternity Unit in Dunedin and is now looking forward to working as a LMC in the community - working with women and their families and liaising with community agencies and her colleagues at Queen Mary.

Pauline is married and has four children, a daughter who remains in Perth at university, and three sons here in Dunedin. She is loving being back in New Zealand and is especially grateful for the maternity system that exists in New Zealand and what it provides for women.

" Being a midwife is so much more than just catching the baby, it's about being beside a woman while she becomes a mother and all that that entails........which is a lot. Getting to know women and their families, what is important for them, what I can help them with....it's very dynamic, challenging sometimes, but always rewarding. I want women to know what their choices in childbirth are, to feel safe, be treated gently, with respect and to feel confident...... confident in what their bodies are actually capable of. Feeling confident as a mother is what makes all the difference I think."

email: paulinejan.moore@gmail.com
phone: 03 455 0445