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Malta Union of Midwifes and Nurses announce new members during first council meeting of this term

When Claire Zerafa’s waters broke heralding the imminent arrival of her first baby, she turned to her husband and asked him: “Now what do I do?”.  “You tell me,” he replied to her. “You’re the midwife.” It’s a fondly remembered anecdote in the Zerafa household that still makes Claire chuckle especially now after 25 years in the profession she describes as “the best job in the world”.  For no matter how well-informed a woman is about the procedure of birth, nothing can truly prepare her for that moment, so natural and yet so miraculous, when her life is transformed as s...

No matter how well-informed a woman is about birth, nothing can truly prepare her for that moment, so natural and yet so miraculous, when her life is transformed as she gives life to another human being. “There is no switch that turns you from a woman to a mother. It is a transitional phase. You don’t become a mother the second you give birth… At every stage of your child’s life you need to be a different mother,” says veteran midwife and mother-of-two Claire Zerafa. In the cover story of Sunday Circle, out with The Sunday Times of Malta tomorrow, Zerafa talks about her passion fo...