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.