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