I don't want to midwife bash because I know how hard some work but I couldn't believe it when I read that midwives are complaining that they are overworked and they want to reduce their workload to 28 babies PER YEAR from around 32 or 33!!! PER YEAR? I thought I must have misheard and they meant a month but no, a year. How come then, there is not already enough midwives for every woman to have good quality one to one care in labour and postnatally without us tax payers having to pay for more? Can someone explain?
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Midwife shortage? Hello? 28 births per midwife per year?
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Ushy · 23/09/2011 22:18
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