There are some nice midwives out there
but that is not what this QOTW is about.

When I was eight months pregnant with my son I answered the door one day and the two people on the doorstep who asked to come in were the head of midwifery and A.N. Other medical section head.

It turns out that the midwife I had seen a couple of days before had put in a formal complaint because she was frightened by my threatening behaviour. The midwife who was not encumbered by a belly the size of a bus, stood six inches taller and twenty years younger than me did not like being told that she ought to read my notes before sounding off with a load of irrelevancies and wasting my time.

Six weeks later I had a planned home birth attended by two of the nicest midwives around.
(whiskas loved by 8 out of 10 cats, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 19:59, Reply)