It’s been an interesting and educational week for me working as a midwife in Malawi. I have been working in Chintheche district hospital, finding out about how maternity services are organised and delivered. The hospital is even busier than I had heard. They see around 160 admissions each month to the delivery ward, of whom about 20-30% are transferred to…
My first impressions of Malawi
I am going to Malawi as a volunteer midwife.
If you are thinking about where your baby will be born, have you thought about a homebirth with a private midwife? The NHS midwifery teams in Sussex (University Hospitals Sussex, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare, Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells and East Sussex Healthcare all aim to support homebirths, but all are facing significant staffing issues. They will aim to support anyone…
Receiving unexpected news in pregnancy about your baby’s development is extremely difficult. Most people start to picture their baby very early in pregnancy, imagining who that little person will be and what they will be like. If you then are given the news that your baby is not developing as expected it is a shock, and hard to accept. This…