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. She 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. Mary has worked for the National Health Service in the UK where she has facilitated more than 1600 births, mainly as home births. In 1991 she opened her own practise and started working as an independent midwife. Mary also became involved in the political side of midwifery when she 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.

She has also written many articles on midwifery which have covered a variety topics, such as the delivery of breech babies, and these have been published in Midwifery Matters and AIMS Journal.

While retired she continues to 'Share the Skills' by hosting popular study days alongside fellow independent midwife Jane Evans in a bid to disseminate information on unusual but normal births (for example Breech Birth) to ensure these seldom taught skills are not lost.

Sources

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