Gynecology & Obstetrics

Biography

Irene Chain Kalinowski (1956) was born in Rotherham South Yorkshire, England to Polish immigrant parents, grew up and trained as a midwife in Rotherham. She has practiced midwifery through three continents, Europe, the Middle East and New Zealand. She currently practices in New Zealand as a self-employed case loading midwife. She holds a diploma in Homeopathy and provides holistic midwifery care where 95% of women sustain normal birth and celebrate it. She has delivered more than two thousand babies. She has practiced midwifery for thirty five years. A journey, that has taken her through countries where women have faith in childbirth and through countries where birth is medicalised and women are fearful of it. To that her first book the Heart and Soul of Midwifery tells a story of how birth has become so complex in our western society and how we need to make changes in the way we provide maternity services. She released her second book My Body My Baby in March 2013 inspired by her niece’s traumatic birth experience and alarming C Section rates. Deeply concerned about the loss of a dear midwifery colleague she co- authored the book With Woman With Midwife with Me in 2014. Irene believes that no woman should be traumatised from her birth experience and that childbirth should be a spiritual and celebrated event. Irene is very passionate about midwifery and her colleagues around the globe to which she co- authored the book Three Blind Mice in which three midwives have three mouse angels and they are on a mission to save childbirth and midwives. Irene has Also authored Let It Be and The Ugly Ducklings, and has co-scripted two screen plays. She is Director of Marketing at Word First Publishing

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