Midwifery is catching

Well maybe not at the *end* of the tunnel but somewhere on the tunnel itself is a skylight. I’ve just spent two days at uni learning nursing skills, which are crucial to my practice and learning!! The skills I learnt were fun and funky all in one - temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respiration, interview skills, manual handling (which I found far too amusing when I volunteered to be turned over) and hand washing. It was nice to finally get through to the lecturers that the constant references to "NURSES" was what got up collectively the BMID students noses, rather than the course itself.

And to top the day off, today I separately got not 1, but TWO new shiny follow throughs. That means that I have 2 women already! One is 26 weeks and the other is due in early July. Oh bugger, that means both are the same time (distance?) along! Oonohz! Anyway, one is L and the other is J, and it’s very exciting to have people who say yes to me.

In other news, you can see from my lovely shiny ticker that I am off on my placement is a month and a bit. I have a few things I need to get done still:

• shirts x2
• pants x2
• bra
• immunisations
• police check
• senior first aid certificate
• shoes x1 black
• badge
• portfolio arranged

My placement may be… dun dun DAH… in Port Augusta! Yep, ME, traipsing 3 hours away for a placement. I am excited and terrified at the same time, as it’s away from home for two weeks and in a town I’ve never been to doing stuff I’ve not yet learned how to do (respirations on a baby, I’m looking at you!). And yet I’m excited because I’ll get my hands *mwahahahahahaha* on bumps and babies.