PAHT midwives feature in Happy Mum, Happy Baby: The Virtual Meetup Two midwives from PAHT have taken part in Giovanna Fletcher’s, Happy Mum, Happy Baby: The Virtual Meetup. Gloria Annor Machado, labour ward manager (top left), and Anna Croot, fetal monitoring midwife (top right) joined star Emma Willis in a virtual event on Friday, 26 March. Gloria and Anna helped to answer questions from listeners about topics ranging from preparation for birth, breastfeeding, baby care, support after birth, and much more.
premiere episode, and the show subsequently won Best Popular Factual Programme at the Broadcast Digital Awards. In series 2, Emma returned to The Princess Alexandra They were invited to participate Hospital and successfully in the virtual event following completed her training as a Emma Willis: Delivering fully-qualified maternity care Babies – two series of which assistant. were filmed at The Princess Alexandra Hospital. The Gloria said: “It was fantastic to third series follows families have the chance to take part preparing to give birth in in Happy Mum, Happy Baby: the midst of the COVID-19 The Virtual Meetup and to pandemic, and was filmed help answer questions from virtually, with contributions from parents-to-be.” around the country. Anna added: “It was a real Series 1 of Emma Willis: privilege to be invited to Delivering Babies saw Emma contribute to the virtual train for three months to meetup. It will definitely be a become a maternity care special memory for our team.” assistant in the busy maternity ward at The Princess Jacqui Featherstone, Alexandra Hospital. The associate director of nursing series was W’s most-watched and midwifery, added: “I am series of 2018, with almost a incredibly proud to see Gloria million people tuning into the and Anna feature in Happy
Mum, Happy Baby: The Virtual Meetup. “Our midwifery team are dedicated to supporting women, babies, their partners and families and we hope that listeners will find the advice informative and reassuring during their pregnancy and birth journey.” Happy Mum, Happy Baby: The Virtual Meetup is available to watch at www. happymumhappybaby.com
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