What concerns me is the possible loss of midwifery to obstetric nursing when the UK standards of midwifery and the fact that all women in the UK have a midwife have been held up as standards around the world for so many years. I was interviewing one of my own research participants recently and was very sad to hear that in the postnatal period she felt unable to ask a midwife for advice as she perceived them as very 'task orientated' and never saw the same midwife twice, or her 'named midwife' at all. As a community midwife 20 years ago, one of the best parts of the job was developing a relationship with the women in my caseload, and feeling that we could just sit down and have a chat about how things were going.
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