Sharon Hammond is a certified nurse midwife. She’s delivered over a thousand babies, so she spends a lot of time around joyful parents and healthy newborns. But not all pregnancies and births go according to plan. For Sharon, it was a difficult birth experience — perhaps the hardest in her career — that she cherishes most. Sharon tells KUOW’s Sarah Waller how the birth and death of a baby changed the way she practices medicine.
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Source: A Midwife And Her Patient: Learning From Loss