Kathy Fray
Midwife, Birth-Babies author, Maternity Consultant & IMH Thought Leader
Title: Integrative Maternity Health – the ultimate in Best Maternity Care
Biography
Biography: Kathy Fray
Abstract
In 2014-2015 I was the founding director of a global inaugural conference on Integrative Maternity Healthcare that was a ground-breaking and revolutionary symposium, held in Auckland New Zealand, which promoted a cross-discipline exchange of progressive research, innovative knowledge, enlightened experience and radical ideas; all in a medically professional and universally holistic environment of visionary openmindedness. (Our next congress is May 2019.) Until then, maternity health specialists could convene only under their individual professional organisational umbrellas – but SOMCANZ was at last a gathering for all maternity professionals to connect and communicate with each other. From Midwives to Medical Herbalists, from Hypnobirthers to Homeopaths, from Obstetricians to Osteopaths, and every therapeutic discipline in-between. So what is ‘INTEGRATIVE MATERNITY HEALTH’? This is when the medical and the holistic, the contemporary and the traditional, the mainstream and the alternative, all respect how they complement each other, and form a united revolution of cohesive evolution, to create the ultimate in Best Maternity Care.Just as the public are demanding more and more GPs be educated on Integrative Medicine, today for expectant women, along with their oftentimes consciously-intentionally healthy-lifestyle approaches, many want Integrative Medicine as mainstream to their Birth journey – especially because Labour is fundamentally both a science and a heart-based experience.
If our Women want normal health – then we need to focus them on natural wellness. And if our Women want normal birth – then we need to focus them on natural labour.