Carli Beange has been crowned Australia ’s best midwife .

But plenty of families in the southern suburbs have known this for a long time.

“There’s a family in Kelmscott where I’ve delivered all five of the siblings in that family,” Ms Beange told The West after receiving the prestigious award during the Australian College of Midwives’ National Conference.

“And it’s just fantastic that Armadale and Bentley have facilitated that continuity across the lifetime for that woman rather than just in one pregnancy.”

That continuity is a passion for Ms Beange, who heads the Midwifery Birthing Centre at Bentley Health Service.

She received the Australian Midwife of the Year 2025 honour for her ground-breaking efforts to set up the State’s first midwife-led maternity service.

The Australian

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