Sahra Kress
Registered as a midwife in New Zealand since 2004, Sahra approaches her work with pregnant and childbearing women with passion and respect. Attending her first birth at the age of 6, she became caught by the significance of birth as she watched her sister born underwater at home.
Originally from Germany, Sahra grew up in the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico, and spent five years living by herself in a rustic cabin herding goats, making cheese, and watching kids born in the spring.
Sahra also spent some time observing the work of several homebirth midwives, but was frustrated by the lack of continuity in the state maternity system, the lack of choice for women, and envisaged a climate of greater support - in whichever environment the woman and her family chose.
New Zealand proved a country of greater social awareness, offering a training in midwifery that reflected the union of safe, evidence-based care with consideration for childbearing women and their families.
Originally from Germany, Sahra grew up in the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico, and spent five years living by herself in a rustic cabin herding goats, making cheese, and watching kids born in the spring.
Sahra also spent some time observing the work of several homebirth midwives, but was frustrated by the lack of continuity in the state maternity system, the lack of choice for women, and envisaged a climate of greater support - in whichever environment the woman and her family chose.
New Zealand proved a country of greater social awareness, offering a training in midwifery that reflected the union of safe, evidence-based care with consideration for childbearing women and their families.
