I knew the theory but the reality … Being at a twin birth is one of the most incredible experiences of my whole life, not just of my career. Hey y’all, welcome back to my channel Being Louisa! Image: "The portraits project has captured the honesty, rawness and reality of the NHS during the pandemic. However, being a midwife is hard work and you will be on your feet a lot. It changes from unit to unit and from what hospital, and it also changes depending on what technology you have available, what technology you do not have, however, number three is midwifery means ‘with women’ but a lot of the time we are not all women. Then also, postnatally a midwife has between four to eight, I think there might be more beds I'm not sure on other units, but you have about four to eight other women and babies to look after. You realise, wow we're not just with women, we're not championing women to believe in their bodies and believe in themselves and what their bodies can do. And you’ll be glad it did. Working under a feminist model of care. We’re front line staff so we’re the ones to respond if someone starts bleeding or the birth pool turns red. It makes me long for the world of Call The Midwife, where midwives turned up on bicycles and often had a robust but calming nursing nun to hand. Having the odd cuddle with a baby is just a bonus. It’s not even is likely to die, these women have died. And not only do you have to sort it all out, you have to clean the room before you go home not because your colleagues are busy, but because they believe if you’ve used a room you should clean it. It was a very strange time being pregnant with my midwife hat on. With all female clients. Pioneering virtual reality tool being developed to train North West midwives. This is going to be an excerpt from the blog post I was telling you guys about. Experience in any healthcare setting is useful but if you can gain it in a midwifery setting, so much the better. A lot of the experiences from people that are students and what they have observed in the clinic as well. No one explains to you that for around 50 per cent of your shifts you’ll be documenting, trying to phrase things professionally, amongst chaos. The most important part of the journey begins with examining your own life and reasons for wanting to become a midwife. Let me give the exact numbers - so the stats are from the Embrace Report that was released in November 2018 looking at the occurrences from 2014 to 2016, this was looking at the mortality morbidity rate which is the deaths and then also the subsequent injuries from pregnancy, labour and delivery. There are some incredible experiences that make it all worth it. What the realities of that is actually it’s not like that at all. Let’s start with the big question everyone seems to ask: Yes. What’s the best thing about being a midwife? The original meaning of the word midwife is to be “with woman” and wherever women are, a midwife is close behind. Manage a torrential hemorrhage, resuscitate a baby, free a stuck shoulder, get a woman to higher level care when its needed FAST. Or how hard it is not to get angry when someone drinks and smokes weed and their baby comes out so tiny it looks preterm. At two in the morning. The reality of working as a midwife in Abu Dhabi Anoesjka studied at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Also, it's so cool, last week a blog post was posted under the Secret Community Facebook page and it was by a Midwife in Australia, and I put an insert from there into this is as well because it's so true what she says! Writing a midwifery or nursing personal statement is no easy task, so here are some tips that will help. So this is a student midwife in Australia who this is her experience of it, I'm so sorry I don't know who you are but you're also anonymous for a reason, I guess. 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