Franklin Midwives

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  Natasha Brown

  Midwife

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  Megan Hurst

  Midwife

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  Keryn Mills

  Midwife

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  Amy Newman

  Midwife

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  Megan Swarbrick

  Midwife

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  Cathi Wintle

  Midwife

Maternity care in New Zealand is free if you are a citizen, permanent resident or have a working visa that covers you for funded healthcare.
We refer you for ultrasound scans at various times in your pregnancy, and you will be charged a co-payment for these by the scan provider you choose.
Prescriptions may also incur a charge unless you have a community services card.

Working hours are hard to document for midwives as they vary day to day. Most of our clinics are held on weekdays and we all provide a combination of morning and afternoon clinics to try and meet your other responsibilities. 

When we are not in clinic we are out and about visiting new mum's and their babies at home or in Pukekohe Maternity Unit or even assisting a mum to birth her new baby.

At times these activities can take longer than anticipated and of course labours happen at any time. This means there may be times when we need to cancel and reschedule your appointment. This can be at short notice so keep an eye on your phone on days you have an appointment and check it before you leave to see us.

Weekends and evenings after 6pm and until 8am are for urgent work only and we really appreciate your support by keeping non-urgent communications to weekdays and daytime. It make a very big difference to our down time while we are on call. 

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Pukekohe Birthing Unit

Click on the following link for more information on Pukekohe Birthing Unit.

Middlemore Hospital - Birthing and Assessment Unit

Click on the following link for more information on Middlemore Hospital - Birthing and Assessment Unit .

Our group may be able to provide care for women if they need to continue labour and birth at Middlemore or if, for obstetric/medical reasons this is the safest birth location for them. There are times when we will need to hand over this care to our Counties Manukau Midwives such as if we have minimal numbers of midwives on duty (generally the case at the weekend when half the group will be off call), if we have a home birth woman labouring as this requires 2 midwives or if a labour is very long or complex. When you go to Middlemore there are other midwives but if you are birthing at home or a primary unit the responsibility is completely with us. For this reason we cannot always provide care at Middlemore, and not all the group do so. Discuss this with your LMC as part of your birth planning.

Wheelchair access

Travelling along Manukau Road in Pukekohe from North to South, Glasgow Road is on the right hand side. 

Our clinic space is upstairs (there is an elevator) with access down the right hand side of the row of shops, and we are next door to Razor web design.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/5+Glasgow+Road,+Pukekohe,+Auckland+2120/@-37.2072399,174.9066664,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x6d12aa8d7d8ff9a1:0x857943aec5b4bbc0!8m2!3d-37.2072399!4d174.9088551

There is parking outside our clinic location. Whilst there is a lot of signage from nearby businesses, it is fine for you to park in any space. However, it is a busy area so we advise you to park for the duration of your appointment and then move to another car park if you have shopping to do etc.