(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
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