The Midwife’s Here!: The Enchanting True Story of One of Britain’s Longest Serving Midwives

✍ Scribed by Fairley, Linda

• Book ID: 110218315
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

�Delivering my first baby is a memory that will stay with me forever. Just feeling the warmth of a newborn head in your hands, that new life, there�s honestly nothing like it� I�ve since brought more than 2,200 babies into the world, and I still tingle with excitement every time.� It�s the summer of 1968 and St Mary�s Maternity Hospital in Manchester is a place from a bygone age. It is filled with starched white hats and full skirts, steaming laundries and milk kitchens, strict curfews and bellowed commands. It is a time of homebirths, swaddling and dangerous anaesthetics. It was this world that Linda Fairley entered as a trainee midwife aged just 19 years old. From the moment Linda delivered her first baby � racing across rain-splattered Manchester street on her trusty moped in the dead of night � Linda knew she�d found her vocation. �The midwife�s here!� they always exclaimed, joined in their joyful chorus by relieved husbands, mothers, grandmothers and whoever else had found...