Vaittinen-Kuikka was born in Impilahti on 8 May 1918.[1] She was trained as a midwife and graduated from the Midwifery College in Helsinki in 1942.[2][3] She obtained a degree in nursing from the Nursing College in 1947.[2][3]
She served as the director of the preparatory school of the Midwifery College in the 1940s.[4] She was the founder of the Nokia Communicable Disease Hospital and worked as a head nurse.[4] In the 1950s she worked as the district health nurse of the Finnish Red Cross and started her activities in Joensuu to eradicate the tapeworm.[3] She continued these activities as a scientific assistant at the pharmaceutical company Medica in the 1960s.[3][4]
On 5 April 1966, Vaittinen-Kuikka was elected as a deputy for the National Coalition Party from the North Karelia constituency and served in the Parliament until 23 April 1979.[2] During her term she advocated the limitation on the pornographic publications, but her proposals were not accepted by the Parliament.[4] She also disapproved of the state-sponsored institutional day care of children citing its negative effects on mental health.[5]
After retiring from politics she continued to deal with scientific studies.[4] She died in 2006 in Joensuu at the age of 88.[2][4] She donated her inheritance to the city council of Joensuu.[6]
