M y first recollection of wanting to be a midwife was when I was just three years old and I can clearly recall sitting in my Nana and...

I will never forget the day I left my home in the tiny village of Barlaston and set off with my Mum to go on what I thought then was the...

Fast forwards to 1988 and it was time to sit our Final Exams, fondly known as our "Finals". In true Caron style they had to fall on my...

I actually received my re-sit results whilst I was on holiday in Turkey with Natalie, Patsy and Mary. We had booked what we thought was a...

Before I move on to the main part of this book which is about my life as a midwife, I just want to look back at my early days and...

So many moms ask me how long I’ve been a midwife and how the way I provide care to moms and babies has changed over the last 36 years as I’ve gotten older So I’m going to repost a little tiny snippet of my Reflections from last year …….I hope you enjoy them. To be honest I hated midwifery and midwives when I started my training. I really wanted to be a Children’s Nurse and only did midwifery to fill the time in whilst I waited to start that course. I found midwives to be inti

It’s now 1992 and I chose to go to Heartlands a brand new hospital as Sorrento was closed and I hated it here at first too....a theme is developing I think! It was a far cry from Sorrento. All the midwives and auxiliary nurses knew each other from Marston Green and only four of us had come over from Sorrento,the rest had gone to Birmingham Maternity or BMH. I worked on the antenatal and postnatal wards to begin with and did settle ….. but I was keen to progress and got my fi

It’s 1996 and I’m now a Sister on Delivery Suite at Heartlands and I absolutely loved it I worked with the most amazing team of midwives and support workers for the next few years and it was absolutely fantastic. I’m not going to lie and say it was an easy time as it was extremely hard …….staffing levels weren’t great (we were always short)…… but the staff were fabulous and that was what made the difference. Everybody did lots of extra shifts and we really supported each oth

After four years on Delivery Suite and following the extremely sad stillbirth of a very special baby girl called Frances I realised I needed and wanted to specialise as a Bereavement Midwife so that I could really make a difference to families when their baby(s) died.. I had started to teach Aqua natal classes in 1992 and realised you form a very different bond with moms to be when you are all standing wet and naked following a class. Very sadly, one of the lovely moms cam