They will join the district's existing team which was boosted yesterday by the Charlotte Jean Maternity Hospital's latest recruit.
Martina Gray, who started as the Alexandra facility's second full-time lead maternity carer.
Mrs Gray, who moved to Alexandra from the southwest part of the United Kingdom a few weeks ago, expressed that she was looking forward to becoming a part of the local community.
It is likely to be an enthusiasm matched by some mothers in the district, who last year complained of a lack of choice within the maternity care sector.
Charlotte Jean Maternity Hospital manager Roger O'Brien said the demand prompted two new full-time positions at the hospital to assist charge midwife Jenny O'Brien, who is also his mother.
"In terms of the ratio between midwives and clients, Central Otago will have some of the best figures in the country.
By September there will be 12 midwives for Central Otago, not including Queenstown," he said.
Mr O'Brien said those midwives either based at, or accessing, the Charlotte Jean took clients from Roxburgh, Alexandra, Clyde, Cromwell, and Wanaka.
A full-time LMC midwife at Ranfurly has a separate client list and uses maternity care facilities at Ranfurly's hospital.
Charlotte Jean's August recruit will complete the facility's full-time LMC team, while the independent midwife starting in September will have access rights to the hospital.
Mrs Gray said she chose to work in Alexandra because it allowed her to practise midwifery the way she preferred.
She wanted to work at a small community facility where mothers had contact with their midwife from inception to when their baby was aged 6 weeks.
"In the UK everything is becoming centralised . . . two years ago there were 108 maternity care facilities and now there are 50," she said.
Mr O'Brien said Central Otago's growing population meant the number of births in the district (208 registered in 2006), was increasing.
