Emma is on the labour ward, a consultant-led maternity unit for higher-risk mums-to-be. Forty-one-year-old Nicola and her husband Gavin are her first patients of the day.
Emma receives bereavement training, one topic she has not been looking forward to. As she prepares for the training, veteran Maternity Care Assistant Val shares a story. [S]
Emma meets Michelle, who is 33 weeks pregnant with her second child and has been in and out of hospital for the past month, suffering with heavy bleeding. [S]
Emma meets second-time mum Lianne, who is expecting twins, but complications mean they might be delivered prematurely. Carly is kept waiting by her second baby. [S]
Emma experiences the training process on a maternity ward, working four shifts a week, to discover what makes it one of the toughest, but most rewarding careers possible. [S]