PUSH!: Close Encounters of The Midwife Kind

by Sylvia Baddeley

Filled with apprehension on her first day of training at the local maternity hospital, student midwife Sylvia Ayres embarks on a two-year journey of discovery, not only about Midwifery, but about herself, as she blossoms from raw recruit to polished professional. The rose-tinted spectacles of perfect birth and motherhood are demolished on day one as she enters the world of clinical Midwifery, and the reader is taken on a rollercoaster of emotions during her first encounter of childbirth. Heart-warming normal births, catastrophic clinical emergencies, and humorous encounters are all recounted using the author’s own clinical experiences and memories as a fledgling student Midwife in nineteen seventy-two in one of the busiest maternity units in the country.

233 pages, Paperback

Published June 15, 2021

Reviews

[Amalia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I want to be a midwife and I got this book from Darius so shoutout to him!!
Very good book, could barely put it down.
Thought it was weird how they mentioned the Doctor who was addicted to stealing the pethidine at the beginning and then didn't mention it at all through the middle of the book? Then all the way at the end mentioned a little bit but with no actual ending to what had happened?
I think it would have been more interesting to mention that sub storyline throughout to keep readers interested and then it could have been wrapped up at the end.
However I did think this was a good book, especially liked that I could recognise words and phrases as I had heard them in my child development class lol !