My casual midwifery job began on the postnatal/antenatal ward of a tertiary hospital.
“Ah you’re a midwife , must be lovely cuddling babies all day!”
That old chestnut.
To set the record straight, newborn babies should always be with the women who birth them, in their arms, on their skin, not in the arms of midwives.
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