 She married her second husband Peter Puxon, a solicitor, in 1944 and moved to Colchester.She passed her membership examination for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG) in 1946; the next year, she received an MD in obstetrics from Birmingham University and was made a consultant gynaecologist by Essex County Council.When Puxon became pregnant with her third child in 1949, she was advised to take time off work because she had had two earlier miscarriages.