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The following is a list of all entries from the midwifery category.
Another midwifery story.
Filed in midwifery, June 11, 2008, 11:20 amThe phone call comes in in the early hours of the morning (I am a night duty legend). Mrs So and so, who is having her forth baby is on the other end. She lives just a few minutes away from the hospital and feels as though she needs to come in.
Now.
She has one contraction […]
Another midwife story. A lesson in wisdom.
Filed in midwifery, February 19, 2008, 4:35 pmThis is one of my favourite memories as a student midwife.
As part of your student ‘year’ you had to catch fifty babies, including the placenta before you could become ‘certified’. No jokes now people. I already know that I am certifiable but that was how you were labelled at the end of your time. Actually, […]
…and now for something completely different.
Filed in babies, midwifery, January 28, 2008, 9:23 pmIn another life I was a midwife. Next year, I will hopefully be in a position to go back to it. I love it. I miss it.
In a life before that, I was a student midwife and I recorded the first few births and my feelings about them. (Before that I was a cardiac nurse).
So […]
