At the beginning, by which I mean sort of middle of March to end of March, we were anticipating this huge tsunami of sick women. So my last shift was Friday night and that was just myself and another midwife in the board as it always is at night in triage. And I think we had eight or nine women in labor and maybe another five or six women with different things that they were coming in with. So yeah, it's busy. But on the whole, no, the workload, the sort of quality and quantity of what we're seeing now is right up to where it was.
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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