The fact itself that such surveys were conducted with due consideration of patients opinions of the nursing and midwifery staff, shows the importance of the role which is attached to nurses and midwives during pregnancy. It should be also mentioned that 30.1% of patients claimed the midwife to be the one person from the medical staff whom they could talk with about their worries and concerns (almost half of the women (49.3%) of the interviewees stated, however, that they did not have such needs).