Thank you to the midwife who promised me I would learn to like tea, that I shouldn’t – but would – survive due to a strong cup, and to all those who have made me them. To the midwife who taught me, mid nightshift, that it’s easier to butter toast with the back of a …
Thank you to the midwife who taught me to bring spare knickers and socks to work. Read More »
What are your initial thoughts when you hear the words “pregnancy and childbirth?” What words, or phrases spring to mind? For many, their minds will immediately go to the loud, raucous noises sometimes produced during contractions. Thoughts of ‘messy’ beds, the need for ‘towels and hot water,’ emergency buzzers or call bells, screaming babies, celebrating …
It’s 1AM, I gaze down from atop my coffee table upon my best friend, curled up asleep on my sofa in the middle of my flat-warming party. Inevitably, we’re thinking we’re the next Destiny’s Child, singing at the top of our voices after too many Aperol Spritz: yet it appears she is none the wiser. …
I have been a qualified midwife for three years. I recently sat down with one of the students who is about to finish her training and chatted all things midwifery and many things not as we realised that she will have completed a whole degree in the time since I experienced my own exit week.I …
You will be the face they remember popping round the side of the curtain at 3am Read More »
Inspired by “How to Date A Midwife“ I deleted Tinder a few weeks ago. For the last few months it has sat, unused, on my homepage, serving only to remind me of my single lifestyle, use up what little iPhone memory I have and further cement my narcissism as I used it just to look …
We pull up our compression stockings & we are there; where we are needed. Read More »
On the 14th March, 2016 I got my dream come true and began working as the newest member of a midwifery led birthing centre. In the same room as I saw my first ever baby being born some 5 years previously, I was quickly thrown into the depths of pure midwifery (or however deep a …
A year ago, I decided to grab life by the birth balls Read More »
