Mary Cronk

Mary Cronk MBE, is an independent midwife from England who was awarded her MBE for services to midwifery over her many years of practice.[1]

Early life

Cronk was born in 1932. She first studied nursing at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and in 1957 she started training as a midwife at Queen Charlotte's in London.

Career

Cronk worked for the National Health Service in the UK where she facilitated more than 1600 births, mainly as home births.[2] In 1991 she opened her own practise and started working as an independent midwife.

Cronk joined English National Board of the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, Midwifery Committee, the Professional Conduct Committee and the Health Committees, and on RCM Council from September 1999 to August 2003.

Cronk has also written many articles on midwifery which have covered a variety topics, including the delivery of breech babies,[3] and these have been published in Midwifery Matters and AIMS Journal, as well as quoted in various books.[4][5]

While retired Cronk hosts study days alongside fellow independent midwife Jane Evans; the pair disseminate information on unusual but normal births, including Breech Birth.[6]

Selected publications

References

  1. " If mums-to-be had running water and a working toilet we could deliver a baby at home.". The Sun, By LYNSEY HAYWOOD 26th January 2012,
  2. 1 2 Siobhan Scanlan; Hilary Walker (1 November 2013). Studying for Your Midwifery Degree. SAGE Publications. pp. 136–. ISBN 978-1-4462-9632-5.
  3. Rosemary Mander (21 May 2007). Caesarean: Just Another Way of Birth?. Routledge. pp. 94–. ISBN 978-1-134-14480-8.
  4. Denis Walsh; Soo Downe (7 May 2013). Essential Midwifery Practice: Intrapartum Care. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 2–. ISBN 978-1-118-70001-3.
  5. Vicky Chapman; Cathy Charles (22 January 2013). The Midwife's Labour and Birth Handbook. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 291–. ISBN 978-1-118-48010-6.
  6. Jennifer Block (1 September 2007). Pushed: The Painful Truth about Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care. Da Capo Press, Incorporated. pp. 76–. ISBN 978-0-7382-1182-4.
  7. Rosemary Mander; Jo Murphy-Lawless (12 April 2013). The Politics of Maternity. Routledge. pp. 145–. ISBN 978-1-136-73700-8.
  8. Lesley Ann Page; Rona McCandlish (6 October 2006). The New Midwifery: Science and Sensitivity in Practice. Elsevier Health Sciences UK. pp. 104–. ISBN 978-0-7020-3506-7.
  9. Elinor Clarke (24 July 2015). Law and Ethics for Midwifery. Routledge. pp. 19–. ISBN 978-1-317-42896-1.
  10. Tony Butterworth; Jean Faugier (14 December 2013). Clinical Supervision and Mentorship in Nursing. Springer. pp. 107–. ISBN 978-1-4899-7228-6.

External links

Sharing the Skills website - http://www.sharingtheskills.co.uk/index.php?lng=en

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