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.
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