speaking of birth...

..you have to consider death...if you didn't consider these two side by side, twins, except one's going this way and the other is going that away...


Community placement put me in my place (where i should have been)
the place was about being and letting things be, be there to listen and learn
be there to absorb and revolt, be there to hear the stories of life and life to come and give the best of yourself that you can, in order to influence the good health and wellbeing of all you come across.

If only i could apply it to my own life

The Rabbit has died and been buried and we have all cried out

My children are beautiful and caring and sensitive and brutal

There you go

The last blog was first o may and now tis 22nd
that's how time gets

I said then that i felt like a student midwife ..now i feel like a SMW
Ive met a few MSW's .. fine ladies
Then there are the queens: the RMW's ....
It has been wonderful to have experienced FHHR and iIm glad when everything is NAD on urinalysis...when i get leuckocytes +++ that freaks me and so does taking hb
Itchy palms and soles
genital warts creeping up the tubular- will it be passed on?
Can you poo?

Apparently some people can't

However


I can now take bloods from real live people YErgg bleagh blah blerr

but did it and will have to continue to do so

My mentor ms Ntash has been very devine and wise and I am thankful for her introduction for me into the real life world of midwiffing

FEELING LIKE A STUDENT MIDWIFE

It's a very emotional experience being a student MW, one has to assimilate everything that has ever been in Womanhood. Process, understand, relate to all that goes on around you in practice.
I've been on placement 3days in community and the slices of life are amazing, saddening, empowering, shocking but never boring! the only thing that is boring is the political landscape in which one has to function within and believe me it is saturated.
It has been challenging and rewarding simultaneously and I feel I have come home to where I need to be :)
I would recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone this way inclined