Black Isle midwife at centre of TV documentary

A NEW TV documentary series which follows Highland babies throughout the first six months of their lives will feature the working day of a midwife from Ross-shire.

The first programme of Highland Midwives will be screened tomorrow (Friday) at 8.30pm as the series returns to BBC Alba.

Effie Rowan, a community midwife from the Black Isle who works in Nairn, is one of a number of midwives from the Highlands filmed for the series which takes viewers on a journey through the highs and lows of pregnancy and birth.

The cameras track Effie, originally from Skye, at her antenatal clinic in Nairn when Lynsey Milne attends on the very day her second child is due.

Lynsey and husband Chris are later filmed in Raigmore Hospital as they await the birth of their second IVF baby.

The programme also features Effie with Claire Chambers and Andrew McPhee, who also live in Nairn and have two identical little girls Hannah and Holly.

They were born six months ago at 29 weeks into the pregnancy and spent 65 days in the Special Care Baby Unit at Raigmore Hospital. Claire was pregnant with triplets but sadly little Lucy was stillborn at 22 weeks and five days.

Remarkably Claire’s pregnancy then continued for another six weeks.

Said Effie: “Every day is so different for us!”

The series starts this Friday at 8.30pm and each consecutive Friday throughout the eight part series.