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.

Cronk 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.

Cronk worked for the National Health Service in the UK where she facilitated more than 1600 births, mainly as home births. In 1991 she opened her own practise and started working as an independent midwife.

Cronk 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.

Cronk has also written many articles on midwifery which have covered a variety topics, including the delivery of breech babies, and these have been published in Midwifery Matters and AIMS Journal, as well as quoted in various books.

While retired Cronk hosts study days alongside fellow independent midwife Jane Evans; the pair disseminate information on unusual but normal births, including Breech Birth.

• "The Midwife: A Professional Servant?". 2000. in Mavis Kirkham (15 September 2010). The Midwife-Mother Relationship. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 50–. ISBN 978-1-137-13276-5.  Chapter 4.
• "Community midwifery: a practical guide". with Caroline Flint 1989
• Radical Midwifery: Celebrating 21 Years of A.R.M. 1997. Margaret Jowitt, Ishbel Kargar, with contributions by Cronk
• "Keep Your Hands off the Breech". AIMS Journal, Vol 10 No 3. 1998.

• Rosemary Mander; Jo Murphy-Lawless (12 April 2013). The Politics of Maternity. Routledge. pp. 145–. ISBN 978-1-136-73700-8. 
• Lesley Ann Page; Rona McCandlish (6 October 2006). The New Midwifery: Science and Sensitivity in Practice. Elsevier Health Sciences UK. pp. 104–. ISBN 978-0-7020-3506-7. 
• Elinor Clarke (24 July 2015). Law and Ethics for Midwifery. Routledge. pp. 19–. ISBN 978-1-317-42896-1. 
• Tony Butterworth; Jean Faugier (14 December 2013). Clinical Supervision and Mentorship in Nursing. Springer. pp. 107–. ISBN 978-1-4899-7228-6.