About Kathy

Kathy with Angelo, Candyce, Rickie-Lee & husband Mark

Kathy lives in North Auckland's beautiful Hibiscus Coast, with her partner of 20+ years an accomplished eco-biobuilder hubby Mark; and their three cool and gorgeous children.

Kathy Fray (nee Boon) was born in Wellington New Zealand, went to primary school in Christchurch, and secondary school on Auckland's North Shore.

Kathy enjoyed two decades in the Travel Industry in sales, marketing and management roles, eventually developing her own niche UK-Europe accommodation wholesaler with branches franchised nationally.

After the early years of motherhood and annoyed at the traditionally pious mother-craft guidebooks written by ideological experts espousing perfect parenting philosophies, Kathy set out to create a new writing genre in motherhood books. The result is her trend-setting return to a middle-of-the-road in-the-trenches-of-reality writing style with extensive focus on the mother's journey, not just the baby.

Once her children were old enough, and with Kathy being so passionate about motherhood, childbirth and newborns; she then embarked on her own formidable "climbing Mt Everest" journey of the personal committment required to obtain full academic Midwifery qualifications.

Today Kathy is a dedicated north Auckland self-employed midwife, she has completed her long awaited sequel book "OH GROW UP...Toddlers to PreTeens Decoded" and is currently working on her next book "OH GOD - What the Hell do I tell them?!" a guide for vaguely spiritual parents. 

Kathy's credentials include:

• Self employed independent midwife operating in the North Auckland region
• Author of the popular book OH BABY... Birth, Babies & Motherhood Uncensored
• Author of the new book OH Grow Up...Toddlers to Preteens Decoded
  
• Contributing Sub-Editor for the Littlies Essential NZ Pregnancy & Birth Guide magazine
• Managing Director of BabyOK™ Products, famous for the Babe-Sleeper infant cot secure co-created by Kathy
• Baby & Pregnancy columnist
• Celebrity website columnist & advisor for Kiwi Families website
• Seminar facilitator at Parents Inc's The Parenting Place
  
• Parenting columnist for New World's Essentially Food magazine
• Guest Journalist in Her Business magazine
• Guest Journalist in InTouch magazine
• Guest journalist in Foodtown magazine
• Guest journalist in Little Treasures magazine
• Guest journalist in InPUT magazine
• Guest journalist in Healthy Options magazine
• Guest journalist in Rainbow News magazine
• Author of infant sleep chapter in Parent Centre's Birth Story magazine
• Website Columnist and Expert Advisor at Mums On Top website
• Website Columnist and Expert Advisor at CoffeeGroup.org website
• Website columnist at Womenz website
• Website Columnist at Oh Baby! website
• Maternity Panel speaker for NZ Medical Students conference
• Keynote speaker at the ASG Parent & Child Shows
• Keynote speaker at Queenstown's Life Synergy Expo
• Entertaining parenting speaker
• Inspirational Motivational Speaker
  
• Entertaining guest on Radio and TV
• OH BABY is recommended by Parents Inc (Parenting With Confidence) as their favourite book for the topics of childbirth, infants and new motherhood.