Emmas all round
I called a friend Emma yesterday who, at 5 months, is a candidate for being my first follow-through*. She said that she had my name Emma in her diary and had been meaning to call me but due to placenta brain, she had forgotten. She was very open and supportive to the idea of having me Emma as her student Emma even though she Emma sounds like she’s having a huge number of people at her Emma birth, and I was so delighted to hear that she Emma was excited about it!
Then she said hang on - which Emma is this? I said it’s Emma Someone, girlfriend of Osk and friend of Matt and she said oh I thought you were midwifeEmma. I said yes, I was a student midwife and I wasn’t just being vouyeristic about her birth… but she said ah you’re the third year student I saw a while ago. Erm nope, first year…
Turns out, another Emma was the one she was thinking about as her student midwife Emma. She hadn’t heard from her for a while though, and I certainly don’t want to catch her babes if she’s in third year and needing to make catches to finish, so if that studentmidwifeEmma gets back to pregnantEmma then this studentmidwifeEmma won’t be involved but she pregnantEmma was delighted to offer to pimp me out around her child-overrun workplace anyway, so I may yet get someone!
*Follow-through = women whom I follow through ante-natal, interpartum and post-natal to gain my qualifications. I need 30 over 3 years, which mean 5 this semester. As it’s nearly April, that’s 5 I need to recruit in 2 months. Feck. So if anyone knows anyone in Adelaide pregnant at the moment, please let me know!
Can pregnantEmma not have 3rdyearEmma and you there too? 3rdyearEmma doing the catching, you doing the observing and extra support? Or is it not allowed to work like that?
Comment by Adie — March 30, 2007 @ 4:10 pm
Isn’t it crazy how groups of friends will end up all with the same names? We have so many Justins and Jasons in our social circle that we all just use last names as identifiers.
And if I ever get pg, and you’re in the states, you’ll welcome to come catch for me
Comment by sharah — March 30, 2007 @ 10:52 pm
We have 4 Justins and 3 Jasons in our group of friends; we’ve ended up just going with last names as identifiers. It saves us that whole which-one-are-you confusion
Comment by sharah — March 30, 2007 @ 10:53 pm
If I was in the same state as you, you would be most welcome to come and learn on me. Sadly though, we are NOT moving again! Maybe for another one in the future…
Comment by Ness — April 9, 2007 @ 9:41 pm