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Interview 07  

Interview 07

Age at Interview: 37
Background: Teacher with a 2 year old daughter. Husband is an environmental engineer. Ethnic background: White British (Welsh).

Brief outline:Went 14 days overdue with 1st child, was induced, then had CS after 2 days of labour. Advised to have planned CS with 2nd child, booked for 10 days past due date, still hoping to go into labour. Surprised by her positive experience of 2nd caesarean.


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She thinks midwives are best placed to give women information, because they are the professionals that women see the most. Having a midwife she knew at her birth meant a lot to her.

 



Who is the most important health professional do you think to provide the pregnancy and delivery, delivery especially, information?

Well for me, it was the midwife really, definitely, because that, that… but I think that's because they're the people that I had the most contact with, so they're the people that I got to know and the midwife was obviously, my midwife, one of the midwives that I'd met quite, on quite a few appointments was there for the delivery. And that, that meant an awful lot to me, the fact that she was there, because she was somebody that, she was a face that I knew in a room of, although they were fantastic people, I didn't know any one of them, you know. Oh, apart from the doctor, sorry, who I'd seen the day before.

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