Dr Alana Skuse
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639 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 8 May
Dr Alana Skuse’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Midwifery is a funny profession because some of the midwives are professional midwives.
They're making all their money from it.
They do a lot of births.
And some of the midwives are like your auntie that has seven kids.
So there's always mostly men trying to get them to make it more formal, but they're quite resistant to it.
Yeah, Jane Sharp's great.
We hardly know anything about her as a person.
She's kind of mysterious.
But she writes this big midwifery book.
It's like 400 pages, but it's really good seller.
And it's very frank about everything, which I think is why people bought it.
It's also got
really detailed pictures of all the different sort of presentations that can go wrong.
So the baby's got his arms stuck the wrong way.
Yeah, the worst offenders are this family called the Chamberlains that I mentioned earlier.
they get very into midwifery but people aren't really that interested because the women are doing a perfectly good job of it but they have this thing that they call the secret and they won't tell anyone what it is obviously because they want to sell it and they turn up to birth they take like a big box in they'll be in the birthing chamber blindfold the woman ring bells and stuff they want everyone to think that they have this massive piece of machinery um
Actually, once they kind of give up on the whole project after about 100 years, it turns out what they have is the forceps.
Yeah.
On the one hand, it's so angry right now.
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