Such a hard subject – midwifery would be hard under normal circumstances and I would imagine very stressful if something went wrong or even partially wrong. So easy to blame them for it.

You’ve got to give them credit and respect what they do.

We all have stress in our jobs… if they don’t agree with it then they should go private or be a doula or something.

Midwives are the ones that made me feel most comfortable. My last two births I only had the midwife there and my husband.

I would imagine it would be very difficult not to dwell on your work as a midwife when you leave the hospital.

In my experience, the midwife is nearly the most important person in the birthing suite. They do most of the work, whilst the Dr comes in at the last minute to deliver. I can imagine the Midwife is left to deal with the sadness and trauma of births that don’t result in a live baby. Midwives are angels and should be treated with love and care and consideration for all that they do.

Giving birth is a traumatic experience. It’s not surprising the midwives sometimes suffer with what they see and gave to deal with

Sadly I know of one case where the situation was reversed. The midwives ignored the surgeon and stood around laughing and talking reckoning the Mum’s labour was going ok at over 30 hours and the Mum vomitting continuously. An emergency C-Section was delayed because the Surgeon had to repeat the instructions twice. The baby was also in Foetal distress.

Midwives are amazing in the job they do! I don’t believe l could do it!

I know a midwife and she is always very upset when she has a Mum that loses a baby. I know that she then has a cry and struggles to get to sleep that night. Its a wonderful job with a lot of joy but there is the negative side of it as well.

Mid wives are wonderful people and this sort of thing should not happen to them. With doctors no longer wanting to be doing this practice due to being sued so often, we will have nothing left to fall back on if the mid wives also leave the profession.

I think that midwives are amazing. Many have the chance to develop a good relationship with their patients in the prenatal clinics. So when the birth experience is bad, as humans, they can be affected.

That doesn’t suprise me. They would witness alot

I can imagine there are traumatic situation for the midwifes, as there is for all personal staff in any type of hospital or medical line of work and as there is for the mother who gives birth and her family as well.

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  • • cherz replied
    • 29 Sep 2016 , 9:20 pm

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  So true ..and well said .

My midwife was amazing. Although my birth was normal, I was still thankful for her presence and re-assurance.

with all of my births my midwives and medical teams have been amazing, they must see some horrible things along with some beautiful things, very strong people!

My first birth was fabulous, the midwife that saw me during my pregnancy was on call at my birth. However my second birth was pretty traumatising, the midwives left me in the room alone as they were on call for caesareans. I had to get my husband to see if the baby was crowning and my contractions were shooting down my legs and I couldn’t stand up. I was on all fours trying to give birth myself when the midwives finally came back. And then I got in a squatting position and finally gave birth. I was traumatised, I wonder how the midwives felt?

I had a traumatic first delivery and have no idea how my midwife was able to act like things were ok for her. She was so strong and positive during the whole process and never once faltered when asked a question.