Parents get vote on midwife title
The search is on to find Lincoln's favourite midwife.
And to track down the exceptional candidate, the Lincoln branch of the National Childbirth Trust has launched Midwife of the Year 2009.
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Angie Bayfield, pictured with her baby Anna, has nominated Sue Jones
The idea behind the annual competition is to reward the midwife deemed to have gone above and beyond the call of duty by giving the most outstanding service.
Nominees can work in the community or in the ante-natal clinic, labour ward or post-natal ward at Lincoln County Hospital.
Parents of babies born between October 1, 2008, and September 30 2009, will be eligible to vote.
The midwife with the most nominations will be awarded at a ceremony held in the ante-natal clinic at Lincoln County Hospital at the end of the year.
New parents Angie Bayfield and John Wilkinson have nominated midwife Sue Jones at Lincoln County Hospital.
Miss Bayfield (42), of Upper Long Leys Road, Lincoln, gave birth to her first baby Anna Sophia on February 15 – three and a half weeks earlier than her due date.
"It was a bit of a surprise and like most new mums I had a birth plan in mind," she said.
"But it all happened so quickly.
"We were in hospital by 9.30pm on Valentine's Day and Anna was born at 2.10am.
"Sue Jones was on duty and she was more than we could have possibly hoped for.
"She was very instinctive, seemed to understand everything we wanted and it was very calm."
Voting forms can be found in GP surgeries, at Lincoln County Hospital's maternity unit and online at www.nctlincoln.org.uk
For more on Midwife of the Year, see Tuesday's Echo.
Comments
by helen, work, lincoln
Tuesday, May 12 2009, 3:10PM
“alot of my friends have had kid, all born in lincoln hospital over the last 16 years, and not one of them had anything good to say about the midwife who oversaw their labour, i was horrified! right up till new year, when a friend had her second, i was mortified to hear here experience.”