| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (58 min. 56 sec.) ; 356787333 bytes |
| Series |
The Midwives ; Series 1, Episode 3 |
| Summary |
Every day we rely on midwives to bring our children safely into the world. But midwives are facing the biggest baby boom in 40 years and hospitals are under pressure like never before. Told from the midwives' perspective, this heart-warming six-part documentary looks at the challenges they face.Episode three follows the midwives on the maternity ward of Wirral Wirral Women and Children's hospital, near Liverpool. They look after mothers who can't or won't be at home in the days immediately after their baby is born. The occupants of each of the 26 single en-suite rooms on the ward present the midwives with a different problem. They see a mix of antenatal and postnatal patients. This means medically high risk mums waiting to have their baby may be staying in the room next door to anxious first time parents.As the midwives are stretched by the complex needs of parents and a busy ward, the film shows four new mums becoming parents in very different circumstances. Staying on the ward is a waiting game for some pregnant mums. Claire has been brought into hospital due to health complications and is hoping not to have her baby ten weeks prematurely. Others, like first-time mum Holly, are sick of being pregnant and desperate for the baby to be induced. On the same ward are new mums shell-shocked by the double trauma of a difficult labour and a new baby, and a fifth-time mum looking for relative peace and quiet as she gets to know her baby.PRODUCTION DETAILS:6 X 60 minutes. The Garden Productions |
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Broadcast 2013-02-28 at 21:30:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: PG |
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Childbirth -- Social aspects.
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Mother and infant -- Psychological aspects.
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Pregnancy -- Complications.
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Pregnant women -- Medical care.
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England -- Liverpool.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Morgan, Lucy, director
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Houseman, Rupert, contributor
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