Welcome to the Lavender Team and congratulations on your pregnancy

Meet the team

Welcome to the Lavender Team and congratulations on your pregnancy. We are a team of Midwives based at Warwick Hospital who will be sharing your care throughout your pregnancy, birth and when you go home with your baby.

Rosie Harris - Team Leader

I have been a midwife for ten years. Prior to this I was a nurse but I always wanted to be a midwife so did my course for this at Warwick where I have been ever since. I have worked in both the community and the hospital environment which I have loved. Currently my role is delivery suite co-ordinator and team leader for the Lavender Team of which I am immensely proud! I have three grown up children of my own and am grandmother to four! Being a midwife is a way of life to me and I am totally committed to ensuring women and their partners receive the care that they would like and need.

When I am not on the Labour Ward or working with the team, I can be found cycling, running or swimming as triathlons are my other passion.

Sue

I'm Sue and am a hospital based midwife with a specific interest in waterbirth. Like all of my colleagues in the Lavender team, I am keen to achieve a high rate of normal births.

I look forward to meeting you.

Liz

The road to Warwick has been long! over 20 years. And winding! via London, Leeds, France, Africa, and one final stopover in Surrey, fulfilling a variety of roles in midwifery and nursing along the way.

My time is now spent equally in the community, based in Alcester, and the hospital's delivery suite and postnatal ward. I enjoy the opportunity, and the privilege, which this role gives to have continued contact with women and their families from early pregnancy to after the birth.

Ita

Is based in Alcester working both in the community and then at Warwick Hospital. Ita is currently on maternity leave but will be back soon!

Michelle

I am a Student Midwife at Coventry University due to qualify in September 2004. Before studying Midwifery I did a degree in Clinical Psychology. Midwifery is the most wonderful profession and I always feel privileged to attend births and to give care to women during pregnancy and in the post-natal period. I have a particular interest in the use of water for pain relief and birth.

I hope to see you at some point during your pregnancy.

Karen

Is a hospital based midwife.

Mandy

Is a hospital and community midwife based in Bidford.

Astrid

I’m Astrid and I’ve been a midwife for 16 years. Initially I trained as a general nurse in Bath but decided that midwifery was the job for me, so went on to Brighton to learn my trade. There I met my husband and eventually moved up to the Midlands where I worked for a few Health Authorities before finally settling for South Warwickshire in 1996. I have worked mainly in the community for the last 10 years and currently see all pregnant women from Henley-in-Arden and Tanworth-in-Arden surgeries. It’s a great job and I love getting to know people from early in pregnancy, seeing them all the way through to the birth and watch them grow in confidence afterwards in their new role as parent.

Heidi

Qualified as a Midwife in 2002, and has since worked at Warwick Hospital and for Baby Lifeline. Heidi is based in the hospital.