Larry Williams Drive

I want to get a massive shout out to this country’s nurses. Having a baby, I’ve had more interaction with the health system in the last few months than I’ve ever had in my life. And to a person, the nurses have been amazing people. Every one of them has been generous with their time, kind, caring and patient despite how stretched they are at the moment. There was Angela, the nurse at Wellington Hospital who took the time to teach me how to swaddle my boy. I had no idea what I was doing. There was Rita, the nurse from the Philippines who now works in Wellington. She was on shift the first night after Iggy was born. Like any new mum, I was anxious and worried that after being awake all night the previous night giving birth, I would be too tired to hear him and wake up if something went wrong. She offered to take him to the nurses’ station for four hours and gave him a bottle so I could sleep. That was over and above the call of duty. Then there’s my midwife Leanne. Now Leanne is a character. She turned up at ou