Episode 4 of 6
Duration: 1 hour
In this episode, we meet Saint Mary's specialist midwives. These midwives help mums and dads through pregnancies that are high-risk, endangering the baby or putting the mothers health under threat. Squeezed into a small office, between them these midwives see over 1000 women every year.
We follow Miranda, a midwife from the recurrent miscarriage clinic, as she tries to help an incredibly anxious patient through a pregnancy she's waited years for. At the next desk in the office is Gretta, the diabetes midwife. She is struggling to get a troublesome teen mum, at risk of stillbirth, to come into hospital. Claire, the midwife for women with serious health problems, is faced with a problem pregnancy like she's never seen before - 34-year-old Kelly has a transplanted kidney. She is putting her own life at risk by getting pregnant and the team have to work out how to treat her and save the pregnancy.
“It's an empowering, intimate moment looking after women in their most vulnerable time.”
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