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We’re mother and daughter MIDWIVES

The third of nine children, Hannah Roe grew up seeing midwives come in and out of her house – and she was in awe of them.

‘Mum had a baby roughly every two years until I was 16 – so there always seemed to be a friendly face popping in to check on her pregnancy, or support her afterwards,’ remembers Hannah, who is now 31 and married with three children of her own – Maisie, eight, Reuben, five, and Caleb, three.

‘I found the whole process fascinating,’ Hannah

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