CHIEF OF MIDWIVES UNION IN UK (GUARDIAN):
CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW BAD THE PROBLEM WOULD BE IF IT WASN'T ONLY THE MUSLIMS HAVING BABIES!
Our members tell us that the gaps in service are basic. There aren't enough midwives or beds, and they hate that they don't have time to give the care and reassurance they want to provide for expectant mothers. They are reinforcing the review's findings of a "failure to recruit enough midwives for one-to-one care during labour".
We feel that maternity services are now at breaking point.
Given the staffing shortfalls, we need real figures underpinned by the demographic changes facing this country - rising birth rates and the retirement of baby-boomer midwives - if the government is to honour its guarantees for maternity care.
Otherwise we will be failing mothers, babies and their families.
· Karlene Davis is general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives
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