Pregnant women struggling to find midwives as working conditions burn them out
It seems there's a growing trend among pregnant women - searching for a midwife. "Being my second baby, I had learnt from my first pregnancy that the day after I found out I was pregnant I contacted my previous midwife immediately," mother Kelly Johnston says. And expectant mother's are spreading the word. "When I was about six weeks [along] I was speaking to my sister and she said 'oh you really need to get on to getting a midwife' and I had no idea," expectant mother Steph Hawke says. Hawke's daily search cold-calling midwives lasted weeks. Thankfully, her friend Kelly Johnston was able to ...