By Iona Young

Copyright dailyrecord

A midwife has secured a job at the hospital where she was born with no name and is now working with the same midwife who delivered her – 21 years on. Leah Hobson, who was born at Dr Gray’s Hospital in Elgin in 2004, was cared for by Carol Bennett when she was first born and was nicknamed Pinkie. Carol, 62, has recalled her post-natal visits to Leah and her family as she attempted to help them choose a name. The routine visits stopped and Leah’s family had still not chosen a name for her. 20 years later the pair have been reunited after Leah landed a job as a midwife. Carol told BBC Scotland: “It was lovely, we were involved in trying to find a name for Leah and it took a few weeks. We would come in with suggestions, we had a really nice relationship. “Everything was pretty straight-forward and standard, the one thing that sticks in your mind is there isn’t a name for the baby yet. I had not been in a situation of discharging a baby that had not been named yet. “Our episode of care finished before she was named. We were part of the Pinkie period.” Leah grew up in Elgin and went onto study midwifery at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. After graduation she went back to Elgin and managed to secure a job at Dr Gray’s where she is now working alongside Carol. The 21-year-old said: “My mum got in a bit of trouble for it I think because she took so long to decide on a name. I had a nickname, Pinkie, she had a whole list of names, and then she eventually picked Leah. I think it was her favourite but she just wasn’t sure. “I like my name, I think it’s a good name, she picked well. I wanted to be a midwife roughly since I was nine, but properly since 11, because my niece was born when I was nine, and had a nephew born here (Dr Gray’s) when I was 11. “I think just seeing the environment and I was just getting to that age where you kind of realise things a bit better, and that a bump on a woman is a whole baby right in front of you, it was just bizarre but amazing at the same time. “I went through the whole of my secondary school aiming towards that and getting my grades to get to university.” Leah said her first day as a working midwife was a surreal experience. She added: “When you finish your training as a student I don’t think you ever feel 100% ready, you need to actually get out and do things for yourself. “I did mention on my first day I was born here, it was strange to think I was born here and I work here. It’s all connecting a wee bit. It was good to start here, I was glad of it.” The midwife added that she would also one day like to give birth at Dr Gray’s. She said: “I would definitely plan to come here, I would not want to have my baby anywhere else. This is where I’m planning on staying, I would not plan on going anywhere else.”