[Rob]

Wow...

We are definitely spoiling all of you lot... Mary Cronk, MBE has agreed with StudentMidwife.NET to answer your questions in a short interview.

I am fairly sure most of you already know who Mary is, but for those who don't -Mary Cronk MBE, is a highly inspiring independent midwife from the South of England who was awarded her MBE for services to midwifery over her many years of practice.

She first studied nursing at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and in 1957 she started training as a midwife at Queen Charlotte's in London. Mary worked for the National Health Service for 30 years mostly in domiciliary practice where she has facilitated more than 1600 births, helping women have their babies at home in the way they wanted. In 1991 she opened her own practise and started working as an Independent Midwife.

Mary also became involved in the political side of midwifery when she joined English National Board of the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, Midwifery Committee, the Professional Conduct Committee and the Health Committees, and on RCM Council from September 1999 to August 2003.

She has also written many articles on midwifery which have covered a variety topics and these have been published in many different media.

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We are absolutly thrilled to have this opportunity.

So, what would YOU like to ask Mary? We'll pick out your best questions and include them in our interview!

[Doodle]

Wow Rob, this is great. I would like to ask her how she thinks Midwifery has changed since she first qualified and if she could change one thing about the profession, what would it be?

Hope these are ok, would be really interesting to hear her answers.

[Rob]

Very good question there Doodle.

[smwife]

Does she believe midwifery really is on the verge of a huge shift to midwifery-led care and normality with the development of more midwifery-led units and birthing centres?

Does she miss being a practising midwife?

[babycatcherwannabe]

Ooooooh i'm excited about this one thanks you guys

I would like to ask

You have inspired many midwives, who inspires you? and

Was there ever any point in your career, when you thought midwifery wasnt't for you? and

What path would you like to see UK midwifery take in the future? Do you think there are any systems currently in place, outside of the UK that we could learn from?

Thank you so much

Hxx

[Butterfly]

I'd like to ask what kind of qualities she thinks an independent midwife should posses?

[MidwifeMummy]

did you always see yourself becoming an independant midwife when you first started your midwifery journey?

whats the hardest problem you've encountered being an independant midwife?

when you first became an inpendant did you miss the interaction from other midwifes/peers

[babycatcherwannabe]

Bump xx

[pinkyminky]

Do you think more training should be given, to enable women to have more opportunity to birth a breech baby vaginally?

[babycatcherwannabe]

Good question Pinky xx