I think I'm much quicker to recognize now when I'm starting to feel like that. And the only thing to do is slow down. It's actually quite important to make sure you eat and drink something and go to the toilet. We all need a mother following us around and checking in sometimes. Are we having our own one of those, unfortunately? We do.
While we take a rest over the summer, we’re sharing some remastered episodes from Season One, chosen by listeners.
This week, I talk to Leah Hazard, NHS midwife extraordinaire and author of Hard Pushed, part memoir of Leah’s life on the labour ward, and part exploration of the current state of the profession.
Leah is as funny, wise and warm in person as she is in print, and she talks about the life-changing decision to leave her TV career and train to be a midwife, and the moment when the stress became too much during one very busy night on the ward.
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