Synopsis
Student Melissa is watched by her mentor as she delivers an ante-natal class with some expectant mothers.
- Programme: The Midwives
- Series: 2
- Episode: 06: Midwife in the Making
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2013
- Nursing & Midwifery
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