Heroin being prepared in a spoon (file picture) (Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)Įventually, she was tracked down to POW Nottingham in Radford, a charity which works with sex workers, and Wendy was by her side when the 'beautiful and healthy' baby was born. Because we are midwives people do not see us as a threat."īut she couldn't be found so "the message was delivered through the street".
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"We did not find her in the first crack house so we went on to another. "I just went and knocked on the door and said 'ey up, I'm looking for her.'
We needed to know she and the baby were safe. "I had to go into a crack house with the police close by. One of her most challenging cases was just before Christmas - a heavily-pregnant sex worker who had gone missing. "As much as I feel for the women, the baby is at the centre," she stresses. "That familiar face just makes them feel better," she smiles, after working with some of the most hard to reach women over the last 10 years. Sitting in a small, one-roomed office at Byron Court in Arnold, Wendy's mobile phone never stops ringing from the women who need her support around the clock. There are major concerns about young pregnant women using the drug, because the effects of it on unborn babies is not yet known, let alone the impact on the mother-to-be herself. How sex workers in Nottingham are empowering themselves through horse therapy.
These women, some as young as 13, are addicted to heroin, crack cocaine, cannabis and alcohol.Īnd if that cocktail of substances wasn't enough, she has been hit with a new wave of drugs - in the form of black mamba - which is having a devastating impact on young mums in Nottingham. She spent her week frantically searching the crack houses of Nottingham looking for a sex worker who was due to give birth.įormer nurse Wendy, 47, of Nottingham, is the only dedicated substance misuse midwife in the whole of the county and is responsible for up to 150 pregnant women a year. Most people spend their final week before Christmas preparing for the festivities ahead.
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