Leah is retraining for fear of what might happen because of understaffing. “I love midwifery,” she says. “It makes my heart happy, you know, when someone hugs you and says, ‘Thank you so much’, and their baby’s safe. But I need to move into a job where my bread-and-butter work doesn’t absolutely petrify me,” she says. “At the moment if I was to pull an emergency buzzer at work, part of me is petrified that no one’s going to come and help me in time. It’s not because my colleagues aren’t supportive – they are amazing – there simply aren’t enough midwives.”
