The book starts off with a young Agnes Light (pseudonym) fainting at her first birth. What is particularly mortifying for her is that she has two children of her own.
Agnes started training as a nurse some years previously, only to discover she had become pregnant. She gave up her post as a student nurse, quickly married her boyfriend and had two baby boys in quick sucession. She and her husband split up. She later remarried and had two more children.She worked as an Auxillary Nurse (HCA) for some time when her boys were young, and then commenced her midwifery training as a direct enterant. And fainted during her first birth.
Throughout the course of her book, Agnes describes some of her more memorable episodes, working in the hospital, in clinic, in the community and as an indepenent midwife, and the difficulty she faced in the profession due to poor hearing.
Book Review
Unlike many books of this type, Agnes is still a practising midwife, approaching retirement and dreading it. Also, uinlike many midwives of her generation, Agnes did not train as a nurse first. These make this book unique in this popular and expanding genre of health care professionals memoirs.
This book is funny and sad and is definitely well worth a read.
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