Amina Hatia – midwife
Annual Eid prayers at her local mosque carry a special poignancy for midwife Amina Hatia: they offer a yearly chance to check in with some of the new lives she’s helped bring into the world.
“It’s an ongoing joke,” Hatia laughs. “Every year, five or six children get lined up to meet their ‘midwife auntie’. These poor kids are getting increasingly embarrassed by it, but their mums come and find me, and they’ll say: ‘She was the first person to hold you!’
“You don’t often get that as a midwife, it’s a lovely thing for me to see and experience.”
