of midwives suggested that 60% of midwives are thinking of leaving. and also in the crowd, new mum for a second time around, tv presenter rachel riley, accompanied by the team of midwives who helped her. all my friends are a similar kind of age and a lot of them are having children at the moment, and a couple of them particularly have had really bad experiences recently and reading the stats on how underfunded and how understaffed the nhs is at the moment, i can now understand why these things have happened which have serious health imprecations for them. implications for them. we aim to have one midwife looking after one person in labour at the moment and we are seeing more and more that we are not able to cover that staffing wise. the government know there is a problem. they are spending £95 million on a recruitment drive to try and get 1200 more midwives. they also said that there are more midwives in the nhs now than there have been at any time in its history. but that s not the