Synopsis
A couple who have very strict eating habits refuse scans of their baby as they worried it might distress it.
- Programme: The Midwives
- Series: 2
- Episode: 03: A Natural Choice
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2013
- Nursing & Midwifery | Antenatal Care and the Role of the Midwife
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