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The Midwife's Here! - The Enchanting True Story of One of Britain's Longest Serving Midwives (Paperback)
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The Midwife's Here! - The Enchanting True Story of One of Britain's Longest Serving Midwives (Paperback)
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The Sunday Times bestseller 'Delivering my first baby is a memory
that will stay with me forever. Just feeling the warmth of a
newborn head in your hands, that new life, there's honestly nothing
like it... I've since brought more than 2,200 babies into the
world, and I still tingle with excitement every time.' It's the
summer of 1968 and St Mary's Maternity Hospital in Manchester is a
place from a bygone age. It is filled with starched white hats and
full skirts, steaming laundries and milk kitchens, strict curfews
and bellowed commands. It is a time of homebirths, swaddling and
dangerous anaesthetics. It was this world that Linda Fairley
entered as a trainee midwife aged just 19 years old. From the
moment Linda delivered her first baby - racing across
rain-splattered Manchester street on her trusty moped in the dead
of night - Linda knew she'd found her vocation. 'The midwife's
here!' they always exclaimed, joined in their joyful chorus by
relieved husbands, mothers, grandmothers and whoever else had found
themselves in close proximity to a woman about to give birth. Under
the strict supervision of community midwife Mrs Tattershall,
Linda's gruellingly long days were spent on overcrowded wards
pinning Terry nappies, making up bottles and sterilizing bedpans -
and above all helping women in need. Her life was a succession of
emergencies, successes and tragedies: a never-ending chain of
actions which made all the difference between life and death. There
was Mrs Petty who gave birth in heartbreaking poverty; Mrs Drew who
confided to Linda that the triplets she was carrying were not in
fact her husband's; and Muriel Turner, whose dangerously premature
baby boy survived - against all the odds. Forty years later Linda's
passion for midwifery burns as bright as ever as she is now
celebrated as one of Britain's longest-serving midwives, still
holding the lives of mothers and children in her own two hands.
Rich in period detail and told with a good dose of Manchester
humour, The Midwife's Here! is the extraordinary, heartwarming tale
of a truly inspiring woman.
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