Many of the families I look after ask me what I think of baby walkers and jolly jumpers. Many with the impression I am going to tell them to remove them immediately from their house.

These battle scars don't look like they're fading. Don't look like they're ever going away. They ain't never gonna change…These Guy Sebastian lyrics pumped out of the speakers into my eardrums as I worked out at the gym this morning. I began to think of the responsibility involved in raising children and the battle scars our parents and our parent’s parents leave on us.

We are all aware how life saving forceps can be to the delivery of babies that are distressed or stuck and for labours that are not progressing. We are so grateful to have this tool around to save a mum and baby’s life or prevent the baby from becoming severely hypoxic or oxygen deprived.