Interviewee (pseudonym) | Reason for step up in care (as defined by midwives caring for the women) |
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Alice | Transfer in due to meconium stained liquor |
Belinda | Transfer into hospital as baby cold on delivery |
Carol | Meconium stained liquor, high blood pressure, undiagnosed breach, caesarean section |
Daphne | Induction of labour |
Edith | Home birth, bleed post partum. 3rd degree tear |
Georgia | Induction as late, long labour, ventouse delivery |
Helen | Unattended birth |
Irene | Baby born quickly on arrival to hospital |
Jo | Crash section, Forceps delivery |
Kate | Trying for vaginal birth after caesarean section, emergency caesarean section |
Lucy | Induction, long labour, ventouse delivery |
Mary | Induction, ventouse delivery, episiotomy, bowel and bladder problems |
Natasha | Breech, failed attempted to turn baby, needed caesarean section |
Olive | Vulval haematoma |
Petra | Ruptured uterus |
Queenie | Difficult delivery, 3rd degree tear |
Rachel | Neonatal death |
Sam | Induction, caesarean section |
Tracy | Post-partum haemorrhage |
Ursula | Midwife unable to hear baby’s heart beat, transfer in |
Violet | Failure to progress, caesarean section |
Wendy | Transfer in for 3rd degree tear |