Articles Tagged: midwife

'Home births should be encouraged to save NHS money'

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Apr 20, 2012

Researchers say that home births for mums having their second and subsequent babies could save the NHS thousands of pounds.

'Britain's worst midwife' dropped baby on head and nearly electrocuted woman giving birth

By Keith Kendrick, Apr 13, 2012

Diana Warwick has been given the tag "Britain's Worst Midwife" after she dropped a baby on its head and nearly electrocuted a woman who was giving birth, in a series of terrifying blunders.

'Mum breastfed stranger's baby in maternity ward blunder', midwife's tribunal hears

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Feb 28, 2012

A disciplinary tribunal has heard that a new mum breastfed a stranger's baby after a maternity-ward mix-up.

Midwife sells placenta pills to new mums

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Jan 24, 2012

What do you think about this? Caroline Baddiley, 62, a midwife from Poole in Dorset, is making health pills from women's PLACENTAS!

Midwife laughed at mum in stillborn baby torment

By Keith Kendrick, Jan 4, 2012

A midwife has been sacked after laughing and making “sarcastic” and “belittling” comments to a mother over her stillborn baby.

Midwife delivers her own baby using a make-up mirror

By parentdish.co.uk, Dec 29, 2011

Midwife Claire Clarke-Wood has delivered thousands of babies - but never expected she'd have to deliver her own too.

Festive birth: We're making our second Christmas with Theo our first

By Eleanor Tucker, Dec 14, 2011

Gillian shares her Christmas birth story. Her baby boy, Theo was born six weeks early and was taken home on Christmas Eve

Dad's pregnancy diary: A heartening sound

By James Moore, Dec 13, 2011

NINE out of 10 fathers are now present at the birth of their child. In my dad's day it was very different. He was at my birth, but can't recall anything much about my mum being pregnant. Perhaps he was too busy painting everything in their first home a nice shade of 1970s purple to notice.