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https://www.itv.com/news/2022-02-10/woman-forced-to-give-birth-on-dual-carriageway-highlights-crisis-in-maternity?fbclid=IwAR2Xvg_crdJz4IL7mszDxVkGDAxOWypbd9-12H0qQVdQQ4CWy8qBYFflih8 11TH FEBRUARY 2022. 

A woman forced to give birth in a car on a dual carriageway because her local maternity unit was closed has told ITV News that her daughter’s life was put at risk because of a national shortage of midwives.

Kerie Fisher, 31, gave birth to Madison last year in the back of her father’s car in the middle of the night.

With no ambulance to help, Ms Fisher, a senior home care worker, said it was lucky her husband knew first aid and not only managed to deliver Madison, but cleared her airways when she didn’t breathe after she was born.

Ms Fisher, from North Yorkshire, says she saw first-hand how stretched midwives were when she eventually arrived at hospital: “I don’t blame the midwives, it’s not their fault but I blame the circumstances”. 

“It’s so upsetting thinking about my experience, I felt pushed aside, forgotten about.”