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Wed 02 Feb 2009Community midwives have healthy childbirth record
Midwifery scheme helps to reduce Caesarean section rate, but there is resistance to the scheme being extended, writes SARAH CAREY.
IT’S HARD to say which of the community midwives in the National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street I love the most. There’s Caroline who talked me down when I came in wailing like a banshee and generally making a show of myself during my first labour. There’s Niamh, who never left my side in the hours after that baby was born when I couldn’t stop vomiting and was so weak I couldn’t raise my head off the pillow.
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