• Question: are you a midwife

    Asked by peng ting to Rob, Phil, Deborah, Charnelle, Ali, Adrian on 7 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Deborah Draycott

      Deborah Draycott answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      No, I am a Registered Nurse. You used to have to do your Nurse training before you could train to be a Midwife, but now you can go straight into training to become a Midwife without doing Nursing first.

    • Photo: Philip Williams

      Philip Williams answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      no, i’m a GP. However, I have to say the midwives were simply incredible when my wife gave birth last year. She was in labour for 48 hours and we went through 5 shifts’ worth of midwives by the time Beatrice arrived. Every single midwife was amazingly skilled and professional and calm. I have no idea how they do it!

    • Photo: Robert Cullum

      Robert Cullum answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      Deborah and Phil have already given some information on this, but just to add a slightly more medical example… There are doctors who work closely with midwives to look after women who are pregnant/giving birth where there are some kinds of complications – they are called obstetricians and this is a speciality you can train in after medical school.

    • Photo: Adrian Taylor

      Adrian Taylor answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      No

    • Photo: Ali Blatcher

      Ali Blatcher answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      Nope! I’ve worked with midwives and have seen babies being born though… so cute!

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