Pregnant women in limbo during ambulance strikes as midwife-led birth centres forced to close

🔴 Pregnant women planning to have a midwife-led delivery outside a hospital have been left in limbo as birth centres suspend services due to ambulance strikes

her midwife informed her on Tuesday that she would no longer be able to have a home birth if she goes into labour before services resume to normal from 6am on Thursday.

“She [the midwife] also told me, because I’ve chosen a midwife birthing centre in Melton Mowbray, they said that they’d suspended their services as well because it’s midwife-led and they wouldn’t be able to get me to a doctor if I needed it.” She said the news that home birth and midwifery-led services had been suspended had made the latter stage of her pregnancy more stressful.

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