Home, work, sleep and harass Ginger puss

Back home with my baby :) GG is definitely very pleased to see me. I'm already doing a few shifts at work and spend my days off sleeping and harassing small animals such as ginger puss.
I'm finding it a bit difficult on my days off to do nothing, there is normally something on the to do list..

Christmas in flat one

 

So it's getting very close to the end now, I can all most see it. My essays done, presentation on Friday and everything else is pretty much finished. On Sunday Alice and I managed to cook a Large joint of chicken without giving anyone food poisoning. That is my first life skill learnt, cooked Christmas dinner.

We all had a little secret Santa which was fairly amusing and then played the hardest game on earth, No idea what it was called...

By the my brains I was able to work out who got my secret Santa, Jack being male thought I'd love...A stapler and a packet of cheesy Dorito's. You may think wow that's a great present. However, when you consider the fact that 1. I HATE Doritos's and 2. I already own a stapler it actually turned out to be pretty funny!

Never the less it was an amazing evening and lovely to eat dinner as a flat :) To finish the evening off we played a bit of ping pong which was pretty damn funny to be fair.

The Final Push

Christmas please, please, please hurry up.
I'm Starting to get bored of all this work and really can't wait to go home for Christmas and just relax without having a bit of work breathing down the back of my neck. I think I've finished my essay I went to see the DOS Friday night and they were pretty helpful so I had a bit of work to change a bit, however now I'm 50 words down on my word count. I feel like I'm chasing it round in circles really since it's either too many words over or too many word under. It's hard work :(  Another little hurdle we have to overcome is this stupid presentation on nutrition during pregnancy, it would be okay if the group I was working with were a bit more friendly towards outsiders of their little group. We have to present on the 16th which is the day we break up for Xmas so all that will be on my mind is going home for Xmas. The reason they put it on the last day of term is because everyone would skive off and go home if we didn't have our presentation.
You may have noticed that this little paragraph is becoming increasingly grumpy, that is because I needs a holiday and because I'm suffering from a mind blowing hang over from Friday...
It wasn't until this morning that I found out how much I had actually had to drink as opposed to how much i thought i had drank. It turns out it was A LOT!
So today is the flat Xmas party we've decorated the kitchen and managed to buy a full Christmas dinner for 7 people from Iceland for....£26.50. I was truly amazed. Apparently that's why students go to Iceland....

Forget Midwifery Im Going To Be An Atrist

So I've developed a new pass time, it's called paint by numbers. The fact that I can concentrate on anything for longer than 5 minutes is a miracle. Anyway I'm pretty good at it, even though I'm not sure that a lot can go wrong really when all i have to do is paint over numbers, Never the less simple things please simple minds.
Last night the flat ordered a take away and it took 1hr20 minutes to come! I was practically wasting away and when it did arrive it wasn't even that nice, however I ate it so quickly I gave myself indigestion.  me and Alice definitely should have had Chinese. Anyway tonight is Friday night which means...

Im such a smart girl ;)

Feeling pretty confident about my research on nutrition during pregnancy, even made a little flip book to go with it. If midwifery fails I could become a publisher in flip books :)

Exciting day of Uni today, we were let loose with needles. For some reason I enjoyed myself a bit, we were mostly taught about different types of injection: Intrademally,Intramuscular,intravenously,Subcutaneously and Intravenously. Everything was lovely until we came to the IM injection with the biggest needle I've ever seen! I pray that I am not Rhesus Negative because I will refuse Anti-D IM injections! Of course it now means that when I go back into practise I will be made to give injections which I will of course avoid like the plague...

Just as exciting for the flat was the gossiping that had taken hold in flat 1. To cut a long story very short... Immy who was dating jack broke up, Immy was/is still very upset. Anyway, Jack brings new girl back to flat, she stays the night and does the walk of shame the next morning. Immy is very unhappy and get fairly upset so last night because of my inquizitive nature I stayed up and listened to most of what was going on...All very exciting really!

Going carol singing tonight with Alice and a few other flat mates, I was persuaded by the idea of free mince pies and mould wine ;)

Dear Essay...I hate you!

So I've decided that today is going to be the day I try to complete my essay, It's not going well I must say... So far I've eaten a whole 500g Fruit and Nut bar and procrastinated by attempting to tidy my already tidy room, then written this blog so, not much essay work going on really. Never the less,  I have cut my essay down to 1,889 words which is now too many words under =_= If I pass this essay it will be nothing short of a miracle.
On the brighter side of life, my illness is starting to wear off and I'm feeling a little less snotty. I was even able to sleep all night on my back last night without choking on my own snot.

  The flat got into the Christmassy spirits yesterday by putting up our pathetically small little Christmas tree... Thing aren't all that bad really.

Pictures that make me laugh...



2011 London -Emily pretending to be Chinese &
Father looking particularly grumpy.




2011- Heacham, The people I call my family.




This picture needs no explanation




Snotty Nose? Yum!



Power cut

http://ju5tafewth0ughts.blog.com/power-cut-chaos-on-campus/ Had to have a bit of a giggle at the people who were left in complete darkness in the library and swimming pool when all power disappeared from the whole campus! LOL here is another student moaning about, I however found it quite exciting and rather entertaining :)

Simple Things

I appreciate the simpler things in life and could/have watched the wax float up and down for hours... Nothing could be more amusing than that.

Happy December

Starting to miss home a bit now, although work is nearly finished I still can't get over this essay. Although, I have been proactive and went to dean of students to sort myself out.

Now placement is over it's nice to be on normal hours studying at uni and back with the girls again, they're such good support and I've found myself a new mummy who looks after me. It is a well known fact that as soon as you relax after working and being exhausted you get ill and i have! Full blown cold, funny stomach and just general unhealthiness. It's going round and i think the whole university has it, where ever you go there is another person sneezing, coughing or hiding their face in a tissue. Home isn't going to want me home this year if I'm ill so I have approx. 15 days to get rid or I'm staying here. Can't wait to see my GG, I can see him now counting down the days til my arrival home, where I can harass him for a full 2 weeks before returning back.

To all my family members, as far as I'm concerned an orange is the most expensive gift I can give to anyone this year, I've become a right little tight bugger since Ive been here and it means that gifts will be sparse this year.

The flats getting all Christmasy  though, we are going to put up Christmas decorations this weekend and Alice already has a little stocking hanging from her door, it's cute and a bit exciting :)

Anyway I'm going to cough, sneeze and feel sorry for myself in bed, Night :) xxx

Back to Normality and Late Starts

Didn't get up until 9am this morning, bliss is the only word that explains how good that feels. Also starting at 10 and finishing at 3 means that I have more time to be a kind of normal student! Work is starting to wrap itself up now and that means I'm getting more and more time to relax a little. However, the lingering essay amendments I have to do are still very much there.
  I have no idea what to do with them though, sometimes I think it would just be better if I just gave it in and hoped that I scrape a pass! (wrong attitude, I know!) Never the less I'm going to have one last good bash at it tomorrow as I have all day off because of the strikes :D!!!
  Then a visit to the Dean of Students so they can look at it then I'm done, I've tried my hardest and I could possibly do no more, if it's not enough then I will just have to look into getting more support because the AA's we have here are S**T.

Immature

I have a lot of growing up to do if this makes me laugh hysterically...

And Relax

All Ive done this weekend is sleep and eat, I feel so lazy, but it's so nice to be able to chill out for a bit even though I have a huge amount of work still breathing down my neck. I have a few reflections to type up and another look at that bloody essay again. never the less it will soon be Christmas and then i can go home and work for a few penny's :) '

Bloody Lap top! =_=

PLACEMENT IS OVER!!!!

Thank the lord, finally I can paint my nails, wear my hair down and sleep until 9am on a weekday! Bliss.

I sent away my essay away during the week feeling confident and happy with the achievement of finishing an essay. Only to receive a really shit review back. I tell you no lie, apparently the only good bit in it is the part where I started it early. The rest was a load of crap... Did I feel angry and upset and really demotivated, Yes I did. When I then emailed back saying I'm clearly struggling is it possible to get a bit of support the answer was no. Am I happy about it, No I'm F**King not! Well anyway, I'm fighting with it until it could be a little better.

Moving on to my last moan of the evening- My Bloody laptop decides it wants to make me look like an incompetent idiot this evening, When I turned it on it was clearly broken and was making "broken" noises, so. Step one on managing IT problems is... Call dad, which failed. So,  step two was to press every button on the laptop, still no luck. So as a last resort I had to run to the IT help desk to get it sorted, I gave it to the IT man told him it was broken, Which it was. However, when he turned it on magically the sodding thing worked no problem, in fact it hasn't worked as well as that since I moved in. So now I had to stand in front of this IT guy who clearly though I was just another airhead student who had nothing better to do with her time then harass him... in the end, I ended up looking like I class A twat. Joy! :)

I made a mistake

Going out last night was a really good idea at the time. I thought getting dressed up, covering myself in UV paint and drinking too much was a super idea even though I knew that I had to be up at 6am for work the next day.  I can hear you all now saying serves me right, I then had the worse day on placement in a while. I had to do 4 booking interviews with my mentor watching me very closely and marking me =_= safe to say it went well...not. In all fairness some of the information must of sunk in because i was able to waffle on for a good 45 minutes uninterrupted. I passed but I could have done so much better if the headache from hell wasn't sitting in my hung over head. In all fairness though I'm fairly proud of myself, women are now listening to my advice which is odd. I'm 18 and grown women ask me questions about babies. Oh the power. It's also a little bit weird that people trust me to tell them the right things... Thank god for my midwife who pretty much lets me waffle on and then teaches me what I should really be saying. I feel that my brain is definetly growng though, probly the reason for the headache.

Working like a little beaver

Only three million reflections to do, It's okay though because it's my day off and I have time. Anything to avoid going to the launderette really. Only three days left of placement and I'm not going to lie but I'm relieved, I'm pretty much doing everything now, just booking interviews are the last hurdle =_= Probably  the most boring appointment which is mostly form filling and organising. I wrote up one reflection today and it took me two hours, I have about five more to do so there goes my lazy day :) No rest for the wicked!

Oh and by the way

Dear Santa, As Ive been so good this year could I possible have a new ink cartage for my printer. Thanks :)

Some student I am

All I do is work and sleep, I now have a routine of going to bed at 7pm and getting up at 6am. You may like to call that lazy, I however call that exhausted. Can't wait for the end of placement and to be able to start at 10!!!! and finish at 4!!!! To me that sounds amazing, 7 weeks is much to long for a first placement.
Things are finally starting to come together now, my assignment is done and sent off our EBL is nearly finised and our IPL is completely finished and gone, Horray !

Oh Funny story of the saturday evening, I was relaxing in my room watching im a celeb when all of a sudden there is loud screaching and shouting coming from out side my window so because of my curious nature I open the window to have a look. What I saw was scraing but also very funny. Two very cold very naked drinking men/boys, to my delight i instandly got my flat mate out of bed to have a look. She was just as pleased to see it. When they caught us looking we were invited up to party with them which I had to decline because I was working a sunday shift :( So the moral of the story is if you wanna come to uni to party and sleep all day and just drink then.... Don't become a student midwife! :)

I survived

One night shift down a life time more to go, the first 8 hours of the shift felt like the longest hours of my life sitting on the antenatal ward with only a few very quiet ladies at 4 in the morning was less than fun, I did a few pulses and listened into babies heart rate and other than that I sat at  a desk drinking a litre of red bull and reading the NICE guidelines it was nice to have another 3rd year student on the ward though who was able to explain how she struggled and gave me a few tips and pointers of how to survive the three year hell that is midwifery training. I was saved at about 5 in the morning by another midwife who offered to baby sit me on the birthing unit for a while. Good job she did because she had a lady came in and things were in action, within seconds of her getting into the room she was undressing herself and shouting that she was going to have a baby. She brought her sister in law with her as her husband was racing down from London and was unlikely to make it. So it was action stations for the midwife who was now running around the room grabbing things and sorting things out so as to prepare a little bit. It was all a bit scary really, a lot going on at the same time and it was a job to figure out what was the most important job and what needed to be done first. After a little while the women SROM and the midwife was swimming. It was not graceful and goggles, apron and gloves were needed there were so many unpleasant things on the floor it was a job to know where to stand and to stay out of the way. The lovely lady was really going for it now and she was pushing hard. However, it took a while for anything to happen and the midwife was getting a bit fidgety so a second midwife was called in to monitor the FHR, everything was fine with the exception to a very minor heart decal in the baby but it soon shot back up again. When the head finally appeared it was the single strangest things I’ve ever seen in my life. I was a bit shocked at to how weird it looked to have a head sticking out. The baby was not playing ball though and appeared to be struggling a bit, turns out it was a shoulder distoshia and within seconds of pushing the emergency buzzer hundreds of people came running in the lady was quickly laid on her side with legs pushed back which was enough to open the pelvis a bit more and get the baby out. When it did eventual fully appear it wasn't very healthy looking and needed a bit of waking up and rubbing. That still didn't get it going completely though so the baby needed rescue breaths in order to get it going a bit better, after a few the gurgle noises of a baby there were a few cries and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. I had managed to wedge myself in a corner in the hope I got in nobodies way and stood silently, I'm not going to lie, that shit was scary especially for your first birth. Turns out the baby was a whopping 9lb 8oz which is why it took so long to push her out but she was lovely and all in all her mothers labour was lovely and calm and a little bit rushed at the end but never the less brilliant. I was also with an amazing midwife who talked me though it and was just brilliant and amazing, it really was lovely and such a nice way to end a shift.
When the placenta was delivered it was another weird thing to see, the midwife took me to one side to examine the placenta and have a feel, at 6am it was the last thing I wanted to do but I shut up and just did it and it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. We checked to see the 2 arteries and one vein in the cord then checked to see the 2 membranes which are called the corion and amnion then we checked for completeness of the placenta and too see that it was all intact, the last thing we checked was to see whether the cord was positioned in the centre of the placenta and had good vein and artery supply. It was all very interesting actually. When the shift finally ended I felt amazing, shocked and overwhelmed with a sense of achievement. It really made me realise how privileged I am to be a student midwife and really believe that all the hard work so far and beforehand was definitely worth it, bring on the next three years of training and that my friends was my first ever night shift and first ever birth.

A Quick glimpse into how not to be a student midwife for our EBL presentation

The midwife role

(Emma and Sonia enter the staffroom)

Student-EMMA – “God almighty can you believe that girl we just had in booking clinic!  How old was she again?!”

Midwife SONIA – “She was fourteen bless her heart”

(the other midwives look over at them)

Student EMMA- “Jesus!! Fourteen and pregnant!  What a slapper eh?”

Midwife FIONA – “Whoa steady on!  That’s a bit strong!  What’s happened Sonia?”

Midwife SONIA – “We have just had a young girl come into clinic.  She is fourteen and in a real state the poor love.  She has fallen pregnant by her boyfriend.  She does not know which way to turn or what to do for the best”

Midwife ANDREA – “Does her mum or boyfriend know about the baby?”

Midwife EMMA – “No!  Can you believe that!!  What a silly little girl!”

Midwife MATTIE – “You can’t say things like that Emma!!  As a midwife we remain professional and non judgemental at all times.  It is our job to help this girl and give her all the information she needs to be able to go away and make an informed choice about what she does”

Student AMY – “Yeah but surely you should have talked to her about having sex so young and that obviously having sex without using anything is just an accident waiting to happen!  Me and my mentor had a teenage girl too the other day in our clinic.  There is just so many of these silly little girls putting it about and then ending up getting up the duff!”.

Midwife ANDREA – “We are not there to criticise women.  We see all different types of women from many different backgrounds and situations.  We are there to support them whatever their choices are even if we do not agree with them ourselves”

I stress that this was a role play and the views that were expressed where merely there to prove a point about how NOT to be a midwife...

This is not my own work my fellow student midwife created it and this is only a short snipit of our presentation

Mental preparation for a very long night shift

Sleep, Sleep,  Eat, Sleep and bit more sleep before getting dressed. I'm feeling a bit anxious about this evening purely because I have no idea how I'm going to cope with staying awake all night and  still functioning like a human being. I can barely function during the day. The red bull is out and at the ready should an emergency I'm going to faint moment happens, which I'm told is very common for new students on their first night shifts. I'm eating lots today to make sure that at 3 in the morning my sugars don't plummet and as a result I end up with a whooshing noise in my ears and ending up in an untidy mess on the floor. I'm a bit nervous because this could be the night for my first birth so i want to be awake and fairly alert but who knows. Wish me luck! :)

My Sleep and work relationship

These two buggers go hand in hand at the minute and the only reason I bring it up is because all I have time to do is work then come home and sleep, this week is the hardest so far. Tonight I'm on my second night shift. yesterday I got back and got straight into bed and slept for 13 hours straight. Even I was impressed, Another lot of good news is Ive finished my essay, EBL is nearly done, IPL is finished and our group has loads of time for our presentation so I'm a little less stressed and just tired now. I also get paid my bursary money on Friday so I'm going to be rich :) Happy times!

Fingers crossed everything stays positive :)

What a weird night

My flat mate decided last week that I should see a gig so this weekend we went, Safe to say I am never going to a gig with Alice ever again! That was some weird stuff, I think I could have shouted down a microphone better than these old women could. By the end of the evening I was ravenous so we trekked all the way to Maccy D's which of course was shut by the time we got there, So in a sulk we had to wait for the bus for ages in the freezing cold. But, oh no the fun didn't stop there, we got on the wrong bus and someone who was very drunk at 12.00am decided they wanted to chuck up most of there dinner and alcohol all over the bus, so not only were we on the bus for an hour but the sick smell made it even more enjoyable. So by the time we eventually got home I was wasting away and promptly ordered a chinese, Alice came and sat in my room and we watch some weird film about sperm donors. So that's how my Saturday night went: Really weird gig, No Maccy D's, wrong bus, people puking, Chinese and sperm. Ha I love being a student!

I really can't believe it.

   After Thursday I honestly thought I was going to pull a sicky to avoid working with this new mentor. She was slow and she just made me stand about and do nothing! Yesterday morning we had visits which was okay because I can very rarely get involved with post natal appointments because of my lack of knowledge, however, in the afternoon we had a fully booked antenatal clinic and those I can get involved with because I know what I'm doing but The new midwife just made me sit there for 2 hours and watch.
Mid afternoon I was saved though, the phone rang and Medicom or a woman screaming BBA at me down the phone, I was shocked at how rude this woman was and told my mentor who immediately jumped up and started throwing things in random bags. We had to throw the women we were seeing out of the room and get rid of about 3 pregnant ladies sitting in the waiting room. Then a mad dash to the car with about six bags and a race to get to this woman who lived 20 minutes away and was already pushing.
The drive there was the scariest drive of my life and I'm not going to lie I thought we were going to die, I'm a nervous driver at the best of times but when your whizzing down a motor way I'm ever worse. My adrenaline was pumping and predictable the traffic was less than easy going, when we arrived we were met by a paramedic and a baby’s head, she was laid on her kitchen floor under the table in the funniest position I've ever seen in my life.  Within seconds baby was out and mum and baby were having skin to skin. The second midwife arrived seconds later with another student midwife who I study with so the numbers of people were slowly increasing to 2 midwives, 1 paramedic and 2 student midwives. As it was about school finishing time then her 4 children arrived and 2 more paramedics so in the smallest house you've ever seen everyone was cramped into. The midwife delivered the placenta and brought the lady through to lay on the sofa while we wrote up notes and did baby checks, safe to say it was very busy in the house. The lady gave birth to a little girl called poppy on the 11/11/11 how sweet is that? The baby was a big 9lb baby and was very content.
   The midwife examined the placenta which was complete and very healthy although it was a lot bigger than i'd imagened it to be
    The sad thing is I can't call this my first birth because I didn't get to see the labour, birth of the head or placenta so I didn't really witness it. It's sad because I feel like it should have been my first home birth even if I wasn't there all the way through.

When i got home last night I must have been tired as soon as I got into bed at 9 last night i fell asleep and didn't wake up until 10am the next morning, It's a hard life being a student midwife ;)  I wouln't change it for the world though. The contrast in days are amazing and from one day wanting to quit and just stay a home to the next day having an amazing birth experience, there really is no other job that keeps you on your toes as much as midwifery does.

What a shit day

Like I knew when I first started it's not always going to be easy, and today it hasn't been. I think the fact that I'm tired as hell doesn't help with my mood today. Today I had a new mentor for the day and I can honestly say it has been the worst day on placement since I started five weeks ago. She may have not meant to make me feel useless and in the way but that's the message I got, so I sat on the bus sulked and cried all the way home.
I don't want to be all negative but I really can't wait until I go back into uni so that I have time to reflect on my placement and not just relentless information been thrown at me which I'm expected to remember. I love it most of the time but today has just not been a good day.
Tomorrow is a new day and I'm determined to make the most of it!

You know you're a student midwife when:

You can talk about vaginas, tears and placentas over dinner without vomiting, You can survive a 12hr shift on just tea and chocolates, your bladder has a 5 litre capacity, you have been covered in at least 3 bodily fluids, you threaten anyone who mentions it being 'quiet', you admire people with 'great veins' in supermarkets, you have planned your weekends off for the next two years and the only way to measure centimetres is to spread your fingers apart. ;)

It's been a long day

Today has been a hellishly long day, words can not explain how tired I am, I have a hole heap of stuff and it just won't go away on it's own.
I think I'm going to start to try and do a bit tonight, i will probably fail and watch Eastenders then go to bed though.
Last week I didn't get change to chat about what I did but to sum it up it was busy, we had six home visits to do, all of which were complicated and needed a lot of time. The first lady we went to see was a lady who had to say in hospital because her child had a suspected Group B strep and the baby needed a lumbar puncture which is where a sample of fluid is taken from inside the lower back in order to determine whether she has Strep B.she also needed to discuss her birth experience and ask a whole list of questions. Safe to say we where in there a good hour.
The next lady we went to see had a suspected pre-eclampsia, she had a sky high BP and ++ protein in her urine, she was rushed up to the hospital and had her baby the same day! Us midwives work quickly :)
The we had a very, very long visit with a mother who was extremely anxious and extremely tired. She had been trying to B/F her baby for a week. She was really struggling, her baby had a tongue tie and this often effects B/F babies as they can't suck properly. The baby had a minor op to try and solve this problem, however, the baby still had issues with feeding as the babies tongue would not come down and therefore he couldn't latch properly which was painful for mummy and frustrating for baby. He had also gotten a bit jaundice and was becoming more and more lethargic. So the midwife advised light therapy and regular feeding. We went to see him to day and sadly the mum had given up and moved to A/F which is a shame but B/F was becoming much to painful and frustrating for the whole family. Mum seemed a lot happier and the baby was much more alert with a small weight gain in three days. It's wasn't a massive amount but enough to keep my mentor happy.
the day doesn't end there though we then had to go and visit some twins which was lovely although they were the smallest babies Ive seen, twin one was a fairly reasonable weight of 4ld where as twin two was only a little 2ld baby, the size difference was quite a shock. When we weighed the twins, twin one had put on the least since birth whereas twin 2 had put on a large amount in a short space of time. Both were very happy and discharged that day. :)
Moving on we had to deliver a bit of bad news to a mother whose baby had contracted MRSA, not much i can really say about this, parents weren't happy which is as to be expected. further tests where offered to both parents in order to determine the source.
Finally we went to see a women who had, had a very normal pregnancy until the baby was born and they discovered that the placenta was abnormal, there is a big long word that is very complicated and i can never remember it. anyways to cut a long story short it was a very long and very busy day!

And thank you grandma for sending me home with so many goodies :) I'm very popular within my flat and I'm really enjoying all the goodies :)

Boobies

I've been sent home over the weekend to sort out a presentation on breastfeeding and the anatomy and physiology of the breast. I will need to present to a full antenatal class of very pregnant and very scary women! So safe to say I feel the pressure to swat up and do a wheelbarrow load of work on breast  feeding.

It's nice to be at home and see all my family but my to do list is long and I can't really relax knowing the there is so much to do and so little time to do it in. It feels like 2 months have just disappeared and that Christmas is right around the corner, It's soooo nice to be home for a bit to see my cat and harass the family. although I miss my uni room because it's much tidier and isn't situated behind a caravan.

Another thing I feel looming is my IPL presentation and written essay, This by far is the worst thing they make you do.  Every health care professional I talk to talks about it as a waste of time which is not encouraging and it also just add two things on my to do list. However, I managed to cross one thing off this afternoon so it's baby steps at the minute but achievements none the less.

Home time

Had a nice day off today but only managed half the work i had planned to do :S I'm going to have busy weekend, I'm pretty excited about going home though. Not much to report for the week really, just working and sleeping. The good news is that I have started pole dancing again so today I spent all day hurting because I over did it last night... and the bruises have returned with avengeance. I'm currently nursing 3 massive bruises and a lot of aches and pains.
   Can't wait to get home and sleep in my double bed, use the dishwasher, washing machine and telly! It's the simple things in life you miss. Plus I get to see my GeGe!!!!!!!!!!!!! Although thanks to my sister I'm working on Sunday because she let the cat out of the bag and told work, Duh! Oh well, since i spent so much on the taxi last night i feel that i have to make up for it.

ps. Just incase you forget about your long lost daughter, I need picking up tomorrow :) Thanks dad :)

Happy Halloween !

So close

So the good news is I almost got to see a birth, but then i went off shift and I missed it. To be honest I wasn't all that bothered because the midwife that I was with was less than helpful, I could tell that she really didn't want me to be there and that I was clearly in her way. She wasn't English so it was difficult to understand what was going on and I could tell that the women labouring couldn't really understand what was going on either, this obviously made it more stressful and upsetting. I felt sorry for the lady labouring and definitely thought she deserved more information than she was given. It was difficult as a student to be there as I couldn't really answer any of the questions and had no idea how to reassure her and help, I felt useless and in the way. To be honest I'm glad it wasn't my first birth because I had no idea what was going on and the midwife was less than helpful. :( So I came back to the flat in the worst mood of my life. Then to top off the evening I came back to the flat to find the kitchen in a state. I knew jack had caused it so I was ready for an argument. I got one.
So anyway nothing really exciting to tell anyone, I am getting better at giving out information now and I can palpate which is nice. I'm soo tired now though :)

Show me some babies!

Tomorrow I have my first real chance of seeing a home birth or birth at the hospital depending on how quiet it is, I'm on a late shift so I don't start until 2, which means a nice lay in :)
Sad thing is because I'm a midwifery student I can't go out on Halloween :( :( How tragic! So it's just means I'm going to be in a bad mood at work all day, not that i think i could really enjoy a night out because I'll be more excited about sleeping than anything else. I AM SOOOOOOO TIRED! I have to get up at like 6 in the morning most days and I'm not going to lie it's killing me. On the brighter side Ive almost finished my essay and done a few reflections so I don't feel like I'm doing to badly at the minute.
   I would quite like to go home next week, but if my dad makes me get the bus then I'm staying here :) I'm not taking all my dirty washing on the bus and that is final!  especially not on a Puke inducing national express cattle class bus.
   Other than that all is well and I seem to have settled into the routine now, thank god. I also ate some fruit today for the first time in about a month. So I'm feeling pretty good with all that good healthy vitamin C inside me :)
   Oh and...There possibly wont be another blog until Sunday because I'm on a late tomorrow, so you should expect a nice long blog all about my late shift either Sunday or later on in the week :)

93 views? That makes me nervous.

Last night my blog had an epileptic fit and wouldn't load for some reason, when I looked at my page views it had gone from about 9 a day to 93, This made me nervous. Either I had a serious stalker or something went wrong. Anyway I had to change the name in case someone was watching me (which I'm sure that's not the case).  Ha, shocking I know.

Moving on, I have all today off so I intend to battle through this assignment, write up my presentation. Work on my EBL and then play the Sims. It's one in the afternoon and I don't think there's much hope of me getting dressed today, I think I may just stay in my cave and try and battle this work.

Oh and by the way I'm planning to go home next weekend for a little bit of a break :) and to see my GG of course!

They trust me

Three weeks into placement now! That's crazy. They’re starting to trust me now as well. Now they don't even check the BP's after I’ve done them or the urinalysis. That is very brave of them. I do feel much more comfortable now though. I can happily waffle on about diet in pregnancy, What to eat, what not to eat, how to exercise, dental care and Toxoplasmosis. Booking interviews are starting to make sense now at first I just used to sit in to corner and pray no one asked me anything but now it's all changed and I want people to ask me why. Its strange how quickly I’ve picked it up, I learn something new pretty much every day and I'm getting over my fears of doing new things. It's nice to feel like I'm achieving and moving up. I can also talk to mums that are P/N about breast feeding and I'm also getting to know all the terms that they use in notes now. people are starting to ask me how long I'm into my training and when I tell them I’ve only been in placement for 3 weeks they looked shocked because they thought I'd been doing it longer. I honestly can say this is the right place for me, although next week the tables may have changed and I'll be depressed, anxious and worried.

The other good news is I've found another place that does pole fitness; this made me very happy because I thought I was going to have to give it up :) So Guys back home I know what I want for Christmas ;)

PS. Emily I got my Sims game it's amazing ;) Shame you can't play it! Ha :)

Things to enjoy on a sunday afternoon

Didn't go to bed til like three yesterday  because my flat mate decided to get her self so drunk that it took three of us to get her into bed and make her go to sleep. I'm pretty tired so i decided I earned a lay in. Today I do have a fair bit of stuff to do, Look at my essay again, write a reflection on social class and how it affects midwifery care and research screening in the blood spot test done 5 days after birth. So what Ive learnt today
1. Phenylketonuria, Which is an inherited disease that affect the way a baby digests a substance called phenylalaine which if left untreated can cause serious weight loss and mental health issues. However early treatment can help to get the baby to feed through a specialist diet which will allow the baby to live a normal life.
2. Congenital hypothyroidism, this is also an inherited disease, this causes problems because the baby doesn't produce enough of a hormone called thyroxine. If a baby doesn't have this hormone then it can lead to serious growth defect and slow growth, this means that babies with CHT are more likely to have physical and mental disabilities. However it can be treated with thyroxine tablets which will prevent abnormal growth and allow them to live a normal life.
3. Sickle cell disease (SCD), Sickle affects the way the cells work within the body, when a baby has sickle cell the red blood cells change to a sickle shape and can therefore not carry enough blood around the body they are also much more likely to become sticky and become stuck in the small blood vessels. This causes pain and damage throughout the whole of the body and can cause serious infections and even death in very serious cases. If it is found that a baby does have SCD then the baby will receive early treatment and such as a high energy diet, medicines and physiotherapy although babies may still become ill although earlier treatment can help to prevent illness.
4. MCADD (Medium Chain Alcy-CoA Dehydrogenase Defincenecy) this is a problem if babies can not break down fats and make energy for the body. Screening can help to detect this early and aid treatment such as making sure that the baby feeds well and often when it is born. This allows MCADD babies to develop normally. If  babies are not screened for MCADD and are a suffer they can become seriously ill very quickly.

And that my friends is what I have spent my Sunday afternoon doing...

Where did that week go?

Saturday already, time feels like it's on fast forward at the minute and is making everything rush by!

I put a hole in my favourite leggings last night and was not impressed but anyway that's not really important. Placement is at the minute everything is still fairly new and difficult, I've kind of got the hang of BP and I palpated and go it right which is nothing short of a miracle. I had a new supervisor yesterday and I was nervous because I have only worked with my mentor so the way she worked was completely different. I can't really write to much about the day because confidentiality, Although it was a very successful day and I got to see lots of new things and a different way of practicing. I will also say that you see such a wide variety of people from people with masses of land a few horses and a land rover, to someone who lives above a shop with 3 other people and only has one smallish room to themselves and a new born baby. Every ones care needs to be different because everyone is different, you can't stereotype because there is just too much to fit into one box, I am enjoying the diversity of the work though.
Anyway Saturday is washing day and therefore I have a huge amount of washing that needs to be done. Yay =_=

General Life



This my friends is a good student dinner, as my father would say it consists of all of the Major food groups! and look there is even a vegetable on there!





To add to my list of achievements I've also kept my flower alive for over a week now!
And I bought myself a pink stethoscope so altogether it's been a good few days :)



Snooze on the bus?

Although it's only Tuesday I feel completely knackered, I even had to fight my eyes to stay open on the bus journey home. If I didn't I would have fallen asleep for definite and missed my stop. I'm now starting to become a dab hand at the old bus malarkey. Most of it is just guess work and luck but occasionally I get it right, the bus journeys are the hardest part of the day though because I have to get up monstrously early wait in the cold, sit on a cold bus with coughing, sneezing people get off wait for another bus and get off at a bus stop a million miles away from the place I have to be. Plus this evening we had the joys of a very small two year old screaming at the top of her lungs for a full half an hour, safe to say that child was going to get a beating by its rather annoyed parents when they got home.
Anyway moving on, I went to a home visit a few days ago and everything was fine with mum and baby she was just having a few problems but nothing we couldn't help with but they did have a Ginger puss exactly like mine. I took all my might to not burst into tears when he came for a purr round my feet. That made me feel super home sick, I don't get much time to be home sick really because there is always something to do but that did catch me a bit off guard, to some they may think that's the strangest thing they've ever heard but it really is the small things you miss.
Another highlight is that I mentioned the other day about having no bike lights for my cycle home, well ask and you shall receive about a day later I had an email come through saying I had bike lights coming my way (Thanks Dad) in the end I didn't need to bike back because it would have meant biking back from a long way away late at night so I bottled it and decided to take the bus. Which of course I missed so my mentor drove me home! :)

Mum .P.S. My Flowers is doing very well

Yawn

Sunday already, weekends should last longer.
I'm on a late shift tomorrow so I don't start until one but I will finish at about 10. I'm happy about cycling there but cycling back with no light of my bike late at night is potentially risky. I wish I had my car! I've had a lovely relaxing day today which has been ruined with a massive headache. Although I did manage to iron my uniform for tomorrow, I didn't burn a hole in it so I would call that a success. Happy Days :)

Hello weekend

I live for the weekends now! Had an amazing night last night didn't get in till 4 and didn't really get up till midday! I do have a mountain of clothes and work to do though so I can't really go out again now because I need to be a little responsible :( It's so nice not to have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and to just be able to chill out, however I will need to iron my uniform, problem is I don't have an iron.

                            

Moving on,
Placement yesterday was busy, although we only had a few visits the people we did see had a lot of issues and lists of questions for us to answer. When someone says yeah we have a list of questions you know this visit is going to take an hour at least, then we had to sort out some complicated bookings. In the morning though someone came into clinic and she was having contractions fairly close together, this made my mentor very nervous as we were only at a health clinic so she was advised to make her way over to the hospital fairly sharpish. I was disappointed I wouldn't have minded having someone give birth there and then :) but my midwife was pretty keen to get her to hospital so she didn't have here baby there.

There was a lot more but none that I can share because of the strict rules on confidentiality...
Now off to tackle my mountain of work.

Just my luck

I hate study days, they're pointless and they make me feel stupid. Whats more is the two home births that where due both cam yesterday and I missed both of them! When my mentor told me this morning I nearly cried. I'm so angry I had such a crappy day yesterday when I could have been having an amazing one! Sods law they would both have their babies on the same day when I'm at uni. Grr. So feeling pretty disappointed to be honest :(

Mid week slump

Yawn, I'm so tired. Can you die from being too tired because I think I must be close, recently I’ve been bombarded with reflections, IPL’s and various other relevant subject reading. Today we had a study day in university so I didn't need to get up until 9am! I had slept from Tuesday at 8pm until Wednesday 9am so I must be tired.

Mum, you'll be surprised to know I’ve brought a plant for my room to brighten it up, so far it's been alive for two days! Amazing right?  And it's even flowered for me :)

Today I feel like my brain is bleeding, first we had a talk on hormones, which I didn't understand and pretty much sat in silence stunned for 2 hours then we had the menstrual cycle, I swear I’m a women and it confused the hell out of me, she blabbed on forever and by the end of it I just wanted to cry it was so complicated, whether she expected me to understand that or not I don't know but I really didn't and it scared the living hell out of me. It also means that I now have to run through the whole slide show again and try to make sense of it all. Probably impossible, not to mention the genetics reading I should have done. Seriously feel like I’m drowning a bit at the moment!

However this evening I had a lovely evening around Sonia’s (my foster mummy) who made me an amazing dinner of curry :) even better they had a dishwasher so I didn't even need to wash up.

Reflection

Today was my first Proper day of placement, it wasn't scary because of my two orientation days last week, I feel very comfortable with my mentor now and know how she likes to work which is nice. Getting up at 5:30am wasn't too bad either!

Lots of things to be learnt today and I've really enjoyed getting a bit more involved. I've now had a pretty good bash at using the pregnancy dating wheel and urine testing. Both of which I now have no problems using (because I'm just that clever). These are only baby steps though by the end of placement I should be doing a booking interview all by myself! Scary! Had lots and lots of antenatal checks in clinic this morning and only a few home visits so quite a nice variety of people.  Some easier to help than others, I found the key to midwifery is just to listen and try to make them feel as happy and content as possible while also trying to maintain safe practice and a good quality of care.

I love it on placement I learn so much more than when I'm in uni, it kind of makes uni work seem pointless and worthless. Most of the stuff we learn on placement is purely from asking questions about why my mentor offers advice on the topics and then researching them more when I get home. I've also learnt that Placement doesn't stop when I finish at 5pm there is still much to research for example today we had a big discussion with a women who needed an anti D injection, when I got home I had to research why it's given, when it's given, how it's given and possible side effects. The difference between placement and uni is you can see how learning about it can help you develop in your training whereas if you learn it at uni I find it difficult to put it into practice. Anyway moan over I'm not going to read 90pages on genetics, Yay!

Master Chef

Made it all by myself :D I know I'm amazing! Pretty proud of myself, As you can tell I'm doing anything in my power to avoid my assessment plan. I'm sure that when I go back into the kitchen there will be none left. Marie would be proud :)

Loving A nice easy Sunday...

It's All Mine!

Nice quiet day to relax today :) put away some notes and did my washing, The dryers here are crap so I either have to tumble dry it 5 times or hang it in my room for days.
I'm happy to tell everyone that I have finally got rid of my cold in time for the real placement to start and I'm now excited to get it all under way.

Oh and another thing, Someone stole MY grapes out of MY fridge on MY shelf! Sh*t hit the fan people! No one eats my grapes and lives to tell the tale, then to top it all off someone finished the last of my milk and didn't even tell me! Not happy, Really not happy. When I find out who did it they're toast!

Other than that it's been a good day :)

On Request

Finally Friday, I sooo need to sleep in prep for next week, we have to do 5 shifts next week and I think it could kill me. I have to get up so early to get a frigging bus =_= not sure if I can do that all week.
Had a bit of a wobble today because of the amount of things that I have to do and the amount that is building up. I still get that I'm in way over my head feeling and it scares the hell out of me. Although I had a nice reassuring text from my mother that I needed to grow up LOL thanks mum!

                                                            

Not much to report back really, I just have to go with the flow at the minute, because it's impossible to be able to understand everything that's going on and remember it, I had a talk on the cardiovascular system yesterday and how to take BP. I swear the lecturer may as well have been speaking Chinese for all that I could understand, and then she gave me a sheet with everything she was saying so I pretty much zoned out at that point. Everyone's starting to get a bit agitated with each other which can make the group a bit hostile at times. I kind of sit there ignoring it all because I'm just so tired. Days seem to go so quick when we are on placement and it kind of all turns into a blur, so much so I have to bullet point things in my diary so I remember to write a reflection on them when I get home.

Another thing I worry about constantly is my assessment due in December, it may seem like its ages away but with things like assessments I tend to enjoy putting them off and I know they have a tendency of creeping up on you at last minute and there being a mad dash to the end. We have it on the booking interview and we have to pick three antennal test done during pregnancy I have no idea what to do so I’m putting it off until I know what I’m talking about, because at the minute I haven't got a clue.

Will I ever have a clue? That is the question...

Success

I've survived my first day of placement, Hooray!

That is an achievement in itself; I managed to get up at 5:30am in order to get the bus at 6:20am. I hate buses with a passion, I wish I had my car it would make things so much easier. Anyway after getting confused about buses we finally managed to get the bus to the right place and arrived very early. Laura and myself managed to arrive with little fuss so we were sat nervously in the waiting room for a while, we met our main mentor got introduced and began our day as student midwives.

First thing in the morning was clinic and then in the afternoon was home visits, I preferred the clinics because I was able to see all aspects of pregnancy, whereas community was more postnatal and breastfeeding issues and concerns.

The first lady I saw this morning was to term and was in the high risk category because of the risk of preeclampsia. She had protein in her urine and was palpated by the midwife, urine was dipped and blood pressure was taken. There was a small amount of protein in her urine but no obvious other signs of preeclampsia so my midwife was happy for her to go home and wait.

The next women we saw was an overdue lady who looked like she was ready to blow, and was quite uncomfortable again the midwife checked her urine, BP and palpated. Then it was my go...

Basically I hadn't got a clue and was nervous as hell, there was definitely something in there and it kicked my hand as I palpated. I freaked out (in my head) it has to be the weirdest thing on earth, like a little alien wiggling about in there and how on earth does it all fit! But anyway we listened to the baby's heart beat and it was honestly the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard. When you think about the anatomy and our bodies you never imagine the length it stretches and moulds itself in order to protect and nurture another human being. It's just weird, very weird. She was offered a sweep and the midwife talked about a show. I sat there with not a clue about what was going on about. After the lady left I had to ask as my curiosity got the better of me. So that morning I'd learnt how to, properly test urine, what the symptoms of preeclampsia where, how to palpate a pregnant belly properly and what A show was and what a sweep was and why it was done. So my brain had to work at 300mph in order to keep up with all the new information.
We also did a lot of postnatal appointments in the clinic, this meant that babies would be weighted and mothers would be checked for any signs of postnatal stress or depression and also to help to see if mother and baby were bonding well. Babies can and are expected to lose 10% of their body weight after they are born because this is when the baby needs to establish feeding habits, whether it may be breast milk, formula or a mixture of both. I found that many women who had breast fed their babies had problems and felt guilty about moving to formula. Although midwives are supposed to be very pro breast milk, I personally don't see the point of having a mother dread feeding their baby because of the pain. This means that they often feel stressed and unwell and it can affect how mothers bond with their babies. Personally I believe that there shouldn't be a stigma of not breast feeding after the first few weeks because everyone is different and for some people it may be too much to cope with. I could see that a lot of mothers put themselves under pressure in order to breast feed and when they couldn't they felt like they had let down their baby and were a failure.

Anyway I need an early night and I have a very boring day tomorrow so I will tell you all about the afternoon shift tomorrow Night J

One more sleep

An Early night for me tonight as I have to be up at 5:30am tomorrow to get a bus to my placement.
After returning home yesterday I was pleasantly surprised to find out that we still had a kitchen, even if it did smell really bad!

Had an amazing day at lectures today we did, Ab-do palpation's, urology and BMI measuring and testing. Feeling a fake belly with a baby inside is very, very strange! Apparently everything we learnt today would be useful tomorrow in the real world! Scary stuff. Really excited. However something not so excited now is having to wear my very attractive uniform. Who ever said uniforms are attractive was very wrong and probably very blind!



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Home Sweet Home

As I've got a weekend off before placement I figured I needed some washing doing so dad came and picked me up, I refused to get the national express bus back...Yuck.
Beautiful Weather today :) I've also been able to do my food shopping for the next 3 weeks costing me Lots! I must have been tired last night because I grabbed GG and went straight to bed and fell asleep, I've missed my double bed and wish I could take it back with me when I go back tomorrow. Having a day off has also helped me to catch up on the much needed lost sleep :)

Not long til placement now, I have my uniform so I'm all set.
I'll Probably put a picture up tomorrow for everyone to laugh at!

Getting into things

Spent most of today in an extremely hot library, can't believe how hot it is at the minute though! I'm coming home this weekend so I  have a huge pile of washing and shopping list to take back with me. I'm actually looking forward to going back to work even if it is for one day. I miss it ha! It'll be nice to get away from the mess here for a bit.
Yesterday morning I walked into the kitchen and someone had left the milk laying down in the fridge so it had leaked everywhere out of the door and had curdled. The smell was horrendous! But instead of the person clearing it up just left it so when i came back from lectures there was a bit of a rant at the flat mates about the state of the kitchen. Seriously though I thought I was bad. In comparison to others I'm fairly tidy, I can hear my mum laughing now at the idea of me being the tidy one, but I really am. I'm also pretty sick of chips and chicken nuggets so when I go home I'm hoping for a roast since I haven't eaten a single vegetable since I left home 3 weeks ago! Unless you count baked beans :)

Placement starts soon...
I'm scared too many scary things to think about!

Freshers Flu?

Two things to moan about today:

1. I have freshers flu
2. My new bus pass cost me £220 :O

So now i'm super poor!

Joy.

A night to relax

So I'm having a night off tonight to eat chocolate, drink hot chocolate and watch doctor who. Plus my room needs a serious tidy up and I have a heap of stuff that I need to do.

I found out what placement I have today and it's miles away which means I need to catch two buses. Anyone who knows me well will know for me even the thought of it brings me to tears. I HATE public transport, so much so I would rather bike ten miles than get lost on a bus. Just one more thing to worry about I Suppose. Although I must say we had another good day of tutorials on "Annie's Diary" which is a book on a pregnant 14 year old. We got split up into groups and I got to know a few more of the midwives a bit better which was nice.
I'm going home this weekend which I'm rather excited about :) get to see my Pussy cat and feed him cheese, I know he misses me :)

Here's a group photo of Flat One :) The people I share The flat with...

What the hell happened last night.

The reason that I haven't posted in the last two day is because I was drinking myself into oblivion, trust me when I tell you that I am paying for it now. Everyone moved in so the kitchen is a complete state and the noise levels have risen considerably.
I have a whole heap of stuff that I need to do today but I really can't be bothered. So I think I'm just going to lay in bed and watch movies all day. It's hard being a student.

Snooze

After pressing the snooze button about a hundred times this morning I managed to roll out of bed and cycle down to the ECB in time for my first lecture. When  I saw manual handling on my timetable this morning I could have cried. Although to my surprise it wasn't a , "sit down and listen to me speak for 3 hours while you all go into a coma." Kind of talk it was actually quite enjoyable. Things are on the up. Two good lectures in two days! So after an hour it was all over and back to something still rather boring.

Things are definitely better today because I have a rather large weight lifted of my mind (Thanks Mum & Dad), I can now afford my accommodation for the year, Hooray!

YOU are Responsible.

So this morning was a very, very easy morning, got in at 10 and finished at 11:30. Not bad, but what I will say is that we are starting to move away from the induction week and into the more nitty gritty legal side of midwifery. At my surprise I was interested and actually enjoyed it. I didn't have to doodle or day dream once! We mostly talked about the code, which is the Holy Grail to any midwives. Most importantly though it really demonstrated how responsible we have to be as practicing/student midwife. It feels like they're out to get you when you read the code in terms of the responsibility you have, every decision you make has to be justified and appropriate. It says to me that midwives and doctors are not such a different breed of health care professionals. Although most people would argue that we are nothing alike, but looking at the similarities we have a lot in common. For example responsibility for others lives. Okay yes I know we don't have to do five years training but we do have to be very specialised in our topic which is mother and baby. Where as a doctor is more generalised until very much later on in their training, a midwife just misses out the generalised bit and goes straight into it. So anyway at 21-22 I will have the responsibility of one of the most important things in life which is rather daunting I have to say.

 What I have learnt in the short space of two weeks is there is going to be many up's and many down's and it's only the beginning. So these are only baby waves I have to deal with, who knows what will happen when the tsunami hits home.

The Inevitable

This evening is the first time since I've been here that I've felt really homesick. It's taken me by surprise because I have no reason to. There is nothing I specifically miss about home just that I miss it. So it proves that I have to stay the full month before going home, or I might never come back.
  I realised today that I had taken on an enormous task by becoming a student midwife and you don't normally realise it and understand that until you get here and experience it. Even though the lectures are fairly simple I still can't help thinking that I'm in way over my head at the minute. Who knows how I'm going to feel when the real work starts...

Ps. GG I miss you

Oh My God! Cake!

Today was a nightmare of a day, not because it was difficult but because the information we were given was so important. So all day the mouse in my head is running on its wheel at full pace just to keep up. I won't bore you with my timetable but it was a long day. I was rewarded with a large amount of books at the end of the day though.

  Whenever I go to the post room it feels like Christmas because you never know what you’re going to get. Everyone is dead jealous because I get three packages from home and they get one letter! Ha! Now you may think this is childish, but for me it's very nice to have little things come through the post from home.

  Anyway this is supposed to be about midwifery and so far there has been very little so here's what happened today while in lectures. First off we had a chat with the exam board who told us AGAIN about the two strikes and you’re out technique, which is still scary as hell to me as I have no idea whether I can write a good essay in order to get the bare minimum to pass. Some people in the group were happy to admit they were going for firsts (which I still don't understand what that is.) Me, I’m just happy if I pass let alone become the overachiever. Then talks on our first assignment's a poster presentation on health promotion during the antenatal period and a written assignment on the booking in interview of 2000 words, which isn't a lot but I still have no idea what to put in it. I talked to the rest of the group and we are all the same panicking about not being able to pass and being kicked out before it's even started.

 The group was then given another tutorial about placement assessments. By this point the mouse was running out of steam and was nearly at full capacity, which is bad because I needed to know all these things, unfortunately I couldn't help but zone out a couple of times but I did manage to catch that all together over the three years I needed to carry out:

• 100 Antenatal Examinations
• Observe a Minimum of 10 midwife managed births
• 40 Personally Managed labours
• A Minimum of 40 Newborn baby checks on babies that I have personally delivered
• 100 Postnatal Mother and Baby checks
• And Been Part of 40 complicated Antenatal, Labour or Postnatal cases

Plus a 10,000 word dissertation, countless assessments both verbal, written and three exams

Yes all that in three years....

Think I can do it. Personally I have no idea!

Anyway on to the good bit Laura came down to the kitchen this evening to join me in my chips and nuggets dinner, she also brought this little beauty with her :) I swear I’ve never tasted anything so good! And that ladies and gents turned a really bad day to an alright day. Safe to say Laura and her cake where invited back tomorrow :)