We all live very stressful lives, and we are our own worst enemies when it comes to slowing down and taking time for ourselves! M and I have been so busy for the past few weeks – I’ve been…
Travel
A Safari Game Drive is one of those experiences that you can’t really describe with words. It is exciting and life-affirming, it is the absolute encapsulation of the unexpected, and where even the least hopeful and the least excitable…
My African Midwifery Adventure – Day 4 – Life Put in Perspective & Neonatal Resuscitation in Theatre
My fourth day out in Tanzania was another eye-opener, and by this point I think I was realising that every single day was going to open my eyes in ways I had never anticipated – whether this was by…
The Wednesday of my first week out in Tanzania was a national holiday, due to the muslim celebration of Eid Al-Adha, so we were all off from placement and had the day to do whatever we fancied – so…
Day two out here in Tanzania was my first official day in the hospital. I was starting with two other midwifery students and we were meeting one of the Work The World team members at the hospital at 8.30…
I can’t believe that I’ve been here a whole week already. Its one of those situations where I feel like I only just got here, but also I feel like I’ve been here AGES just from the huge amount…
So I’ve been trying to work out the best way to write about this trip; there is just too much to leave it all until my regular Midwife Mondays posts, and I think I want to do a few…
This past week has been absolute BLISS – Just to have that bit of time off to relax, catch up on some much needed sleep and spend time with M and with friends has been so special! We started…
As I’ve mentioned in a few posts over the last couple of weeks, we recently went on a trip to Lincoln. I’d never been before and so when we had a bit of spare time, alongside the fabulous airshow…
If you follow me on instagram, you will have seen in my stories and also in a couple of posts that about ten days ago, we headed up to Lincoln for a couple of days. M knows Lincoln quite…