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Following midwives who work in hospitals helping to deliver babies.

Following midwives who work in hospitals helping to deliver babies - a rewarding yet often very challenging job.

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The Midwives: Series 1

Rupert Houseman

Tim Goalen

Emma Hayes

Jackie McKinney-Dyer

Charlotte Moore

Charlie Russell

Zac Beattie

Lucy Morgan

The Midwives: Series 1: Episode 5: Room Service

Room Service

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Episode 5: Room Service

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A look at the maternity ward of Wirral Women and Children's Hospital, near Liverpool.

A look at Wirral Women and Children's Hospital. The midwives here look after the mothers who can't or won't be at home in the days before or immediately after their baby is born.

This film is set on the maternity ward of Wirral Women and Children's Hospital, near Liverpool. The midwives here look after the mothers who can't or won't be at home in the days before or immediately after their baby is born. Each one of the 26 single en-suite rooms on the ward will present the midwives with a different problem. They see a mix of antenatal and postnatal patients. This means medically high risk mums waiting to have their baby may be staying in the room next door to anxious first time parents.  

As the midwives are stretched by the complex needs of parents and a busy ward, the film shows four new mums becoming parents in very different circumstances.

Staying on the ward is a waiting game for some pregnant mums. Claire has been brought into hospital due to health complications and is desperately hoping not to have her baby ten weeks prematurely. Others like first-time mum Holly are sick of being pregnant and desperate for the baby to be induced. On the same ward are new mums shell-shocked by the double trauma of a difficult labour and a new baby, and a fifth-time mum looking for relative peace and quiet as she gets to know her new baby.

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Following the work of midwives in hospitals in Manchester and the Wirral

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