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After completing her degree with top grades, Kathy released her long-awaited sequel “OH GROW UP…Toddlers to PreTeens Decoded” which has since become a USA best-seller.

Until 2017 Kathy spent nearing a decade as a 24-7 self-employed midwife. Being always on-call as a Midwife is not a job, it’s a calling, because you live your life for years upon years, never knowing the next time you will eat, sleep, or see your family. Over those incredible years, Kathy estimates she caught around 500 babies, with a labour 15% C-section rate (from a demographic who usually would experience around a 50% rate of medicalised deliveries). She equates such low rates of intervention, purely from her clientele becoming educated on ‘Organic Birth’ (Kathy’s teachings on the Secrets to understanding Natural Labour & Normal Birth).

In 2013 Kathy applied to skincare producer Bio-Oil for a grant as seed money to create an inaugural global conference on Integrative Maternity Healthcare (Kathy having first coined the phrase). Then finally in May 2015 this world first symposium, SOMCANZ, was held in Auckland, New Zealand – which was an enormous success (and an enormous undertaking), attracting multiple big-name international speakers.

In 2016 and 2017 SOMCANZ aligned with AIMA (Australasian Integrative Medicine Assoc) to hold joint conferences.

In 2016 Kathy’s third manuscript “OH GOD – WHAT THE HELL DO I TELL THEM?! Guide for vaguely spiritual parents” won 2nd in the prestigious Ashton Wylie body-mind-spirit book awards. Kathy ‘retired’ from 24-7 on-call work, and took on the role as the Research Midwife at the University of Auckland for a ground-breaking Sleep Positions in Pregnancy Study. That year Kathy was also thrilled to be awarded the title of APAC NZ Maternity Writer of the Year 2017, and in 2018 was named Influential Businesswoman Award’s Best Holistic Maternity Care Specialist 2018.

Kathy is currently finalising her next book “OH MAMA – Midwife’s Guide to Integrative Maternity Healthcare”; editing the North American edition of “OH BABY…Birth, babies & Motherhood Uncensored”; and organising the next international conference on Integrative Maternity HealthCare.
In 2017, after a dozen years of recommending specific products to hundreds and thousands of women, in an effort to make life easier for mums to find such items, Kathy created the MotherWise range of all her “My Favourite Things” merchandise, which continues to expand as she sources her trifecta criteria of best-value with best-quality with best-ethics.

As a result of Kathy’s success, she has been interviewed on Breakfast TV, had several appearances on Good Morning TV, been the guess expert on multiple occasions at NewsTalk ZB, plus PlanetFM radio, interviewed for the The Old New tv series, and annually is a keynote speaker at NZ’s leading BabyShow expo. Kathy has also been featured as the parenting columnist for Woman’s Day magazine, and interviewed in other magazines including New Idea, Canvas and North & South.