First Day as A Student Midwife

Well all that hard work has payed off and I’m finally here, living in halls and being a proper student! This means that today I cycled down to the Edith Cavel building (which very nearly killed me) and began my new life as a student midwife.
It's safe to say that is was boring as hell, A very very very long book list and lots to read about but nothing really midwifery related apart from reading the NMC handbook. We did however get to chat with the 3rd year midwifery student. This was an amazing opportunity to get to know the next three years of my life and see it in front of me. Although my rose tinted glasses were soon removed and I was brought to the ground with a rather unpleasant thud. I found out that midwifery is damn hard and passion alone isn't enough to survive. I also found out that being part of midwifery turns you into a slightly crazy person, which isn't far from what I am now really. Anyway she told me that she saw her first birth in October. That’s a month after starting her course...
A month from now I will see me first birth. WOW.
Deep end or what? I go on community on October the 4th for a month and have a new mentor who will teach me what i need to know. I will also be doing night shifts with my community mentor occasionally. So although this week is going to feel slow I can assure you that the rest of the course is absolutely mental! Probably why everyone involved with midwifery is slightly on the strange side. hmm

Moving on My timetable is pretty easy and I think manageable with a lot of self directed study time. What is that I here you asking? Well it's when they tell you to buggar off and do it elsewhere, it mostly consists of reading, filling out sheet and general tasks. I think I need to work on myself restraint if this is the case (oh dear.) To give you an example of my first week of University here it is.

Day one
Monday

2 hour talk and Tour of building and intro to the course, fairly boring nothing that I really found to be vital information.

Lunch- met with 3rd year midwifery students

Another hour of introducing the course and met the course director, Still very boring.

Then to round it off a talk about Fire safety and UEA security! Yay!

So basically finished at 3 and came home for some self directed study! Haha

First day done.

The only really exciting thing that’s happening this week is Friday and that the uniform fitting :) Maybe then I can put this on my Uniform :)