midwife

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Ockenden, a senior midwife, is currently leading the maternity review at Nottingham, which is the largest of its kind, examining about 2,500 cases of harm to mothers and babies.

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It is being led by senior midwife Donna Ockenden, and is due to conclude later this year.

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Her husband Jonathan believes there is a "cultural" problem within maternity services that midwives believe they know better as they are the professionals.

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The midwife, Gertrude, says I’m small because I had only the milk of a weak goat instead of a strong mother, but I know that really it’s because of my name.

From Literature

There were, though, some concerns expressed about those conventions — and a sense from some that for too long custom had been the midwife of deference and that must change.

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