| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr.) ; 357213427 bytes |
| Series |
The Midwives ; Series 1, Episode 2 |
| Summary |
This episode of The Midwives follows three trainees at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, as they embark on the daunting task of learning to become a midwife. The three-year training is tough and before the students qualify, they have to clock up 40 births under supervision. Then suddenly they are on their own with no one to turn to.Eighteen-year-old Chloe is a first year student midwife starting her placement on the high-risk delivery unit. She has only just done her A-levels and moved out of home, but she is wide-eyed with enthusiasm about the wonders of childbirth and the challenge of exhausted, fed up mums. It is not long before she faces the more nerve-wracking and intimate milestones of her first vaginal examination and 'catching' her first baby at a caesarean section.Twenty-year-old Aurelie is struggling in her second year and has one more chance to pass a vital assessment. If she fails, it is unlikely she will ever become a midwife. Her mentor Leslie scrutinises Aurelie's work for a week before making the decision to pass or fail her. Aurelie's dream of returning to Congo to be a midwife is in danger of ending.Jess, at 22, has just completed her three years' training. On her first shift in the blue uniform of a qualified midwife, she realises that the buck now stops with her. In the life and death dramas she encounters, her decisions are now her responsibility alone. More than anything, Jess wants her first normal birth as a qualified midwife. But on the high-risk delivery unit of St Mary's Hospital, it is unlikely to be a straightforward one.PRODUCTION DETAILS:6 X 60 minutes. The Garden Productions |
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Broadcast 2013-02-21 at 21:30:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: PG |
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Midwives -- Personnel management.
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Midwives -- Training of.
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Mother and infant -- Psychological aspects.
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Pregnancy -- Complications.
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Pregnant women -- Family relationships.
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United Kingdom.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Tibbetts, Sara, director
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Houseman, Rupert, contributor
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