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His small-scale initiative has now blossomed into a movement, with more than 40 men and women - from midwives to carpenters to military officers - joining.

A leading midwife who has led reviews into care failings in the NHS has criticised the health service for "failing" to give her daughter safe care.

When she begged for care, a midwife told her, “This is a Catholic country.”

It was the paediatric matron in Bridgend who spotted the lie about her qualification date, while checking her registration code which all nurses, midwives and nurse associates must have to work in the UK.

He said that they had a midwife on tour with them and “were prepared if it were to happen,” but they thought they had a week or so left before the baby arrived.