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This contribution to People’s War was received by the Action Desk at ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Cleveland and submitted anonymously to the website, with the permission and on behalf of its author — a Midwife during WW2.

Bombs falling, lady was a young Midwife. Lady was asked if she would attend a lady. A bus took the Midwife to the crossroads, then she would be met and taken to the farm. She got off at the crossroads and no one was there. Suddenly a dog and man appeared out of the bushes and she was taken to a nearby farm.

A young girl was in advanced labour. The baby was burn but there were problems with the placenta. The midwife had given all of the help she could and no doctors were available — the patient was bleeding to death. The midwife diagnosed a succturelate lobe — an extra lobe that is one in a million case. Eventually it released and came away. The midwife got the doctor in the early hours of the morning and he checked everything was okay. The Doctor had never experienced this before in all of his career. The proud Grandma gave the midwife and doctor half a dozen eggs each before they left — gold dust in those days!

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