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Midwife Mondays

Midwife Mondays is a series of over 150 posts, written weekly over my three years training as a midwife, documenting the highs, lows, assessments and catches of my time as a Student Midwife.

Midwife Mondays: My Degree Classification results are out!

Still can’t quite believe I’ve finished! I’m now sitting here in that awkward limbo between being a student and being a working midwife – waiting for my registration to go through before I can start my new job. As…

Midwife Mondays 154: The end of my training & saying Thank you

I can’t quite believe I’m able to say this, but I’ve finished – I’ve done all my training and I’m now officially a trained midwife – just waiting for my final degree classification and my registration now! I get…

Midwife Mondays 153: Last week on placement

Three years of training and last week was my last ever week as a student midwife! Eek! It was quite a bitty week really. I had three shifts, but as I wasn’t really priority as I’d already got my…

Midwife Mondays 152: Catching my 40th baby!

So for those of you who don’t know, in addition to completing the required practice hours on the course, achieving the necessary skills and passing all your modules, there are certain things you need to have done to meet…

Midwife Mondays 150: Final module and placements marks!

So in my last post I finished on a night shift. At the end of that night shift (technically Monday morning) we did my final placement grading ever! Eek! It’s always quite daunting doing placement gradings, but this one,…