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:in good hands In Good Hands EMMA PARRY IS A Specialist Obstetrician and Medicine. She is currently Clinical Director of MaternalShe is based at Auckland City Hospital which has one has varied clinical interests, but is especially interested in anomalies, information storage and retrieval and preterm Fetal Medicine Network (NZMFMN) and introduced Photocoagulation for Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Emma is a member of several committees both within regular speaker and organises conferences and workshops organisations. Her research fields include Preterm Labour Women's Health and improving Maternal and Perinatal GROWING UP, HAD YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO BE AN OBSTETRICIAN AND GYNAECOLOGIST? I wanted to be a doctor at age five, but Obstetrics and Gynaecology was something I fell in love with at Medical School when I got to deliver twins. It was such an amazing experience to be a part of such a wonderful event. It's funny as I'm in the middle of writing a book about my life and travels and it has really focussed my thoughts around what the drivers were to the direction my career has taken. TELL US ABOUT YOUR FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH CHILDBIRTH? My first experience of childbirth was as a medical student. In the UK childbirth is 10 | www.h e rmagaz i n e . c o. n z Gynaecologist and a Subspecialist in Maternal Fetal Fetal Medicine at Auckland City Hospital. of the largest maternity units in the country. Emma complex multiple pregnancy, 3D scanning of fetal labour. She established the New Zealand Maternal the high tech procedure of Selective Fetoscopic Laser Syndrome to New Zealand. Auckland City Hospital and New Zealand. She is a in New Zealand and Australia through several and Induction of Labour, Health Informatics in Health in the Developing World. mainly a two person event; the mother and father so no extra supporters! I got to watch the midwives deliver five babies before I got to actually help. It is a special but sometimes frightening part of life. WAS YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE OF GIVING BIRTH A POSITIVE ONE? WHAT IF ANYTHING, WOULD YOU HAVE CHANGED? When I had both my girls I had midwives who I trusted completely caring for me. My eldest was born in Dunedin and I had one of my colleagues as back-up for the midwives. Being a doctor I had that as a risk factor and of course I ended up needing the Obstetrician's help! Alice was a 'tricky' ventouse delivery and my six foot Obstetrician colleague/friend was sweating by the time she was out! Despite this it was an immensely positive experience. I had my husband Dave there and a final year medical student who had been following my care and had got to know me really well. So I guess I wouldn't change anything. For my second daughter four years later, I was convinced this would be a piece of cake having had a vaginal delivery the first time. I hadn't figured on her having a big head. I tried everything to deliver her without help even sitting on a birthing stool, however her head was too big and so I ended up with a Caesarean section. My mum was over from the UK for her birth and was in the delivery room with Dave and I and the midwife. This was very special for me, but unfortunately she wasn't allowed into theatre as only one support person was allowed. I guess having