This book details the training, careers, family life, business enterprises, travel, friendships, partnerships, community participation and professional contribution of 200 midwives and the hospitals they established or managed.

Nurse Mary Kirkpatrick was the first trained midwife and established the first private maternity hospital in the NSW town of Kempsey.

The history of Sydney's pioneering maternity hospital and 9781743318409 of medical care for women in Australia

In this work, Gilmore finely describes life in 19th century Australia, and midwife Mrs. Bennett in particular.

The fourth and final book in the quartet which commemorates the work of pioneer midwives across southern NSW, northern VIC, and the eastern corner of SA

The book pays tribute to the role of Aboriginal midwives, the stories of the ‘granny’ midwives, and the trained nurse midwives

No Births on Monday tells the story of midwifery services in rural and remote areas of Australia from the days before European settlement until the present, and asks the hard

Riverina Midwives collects the stories of the hard work, courage, improvisation, humour and grief which accompanied the settlement of one of Australia’s richest rural areas.