Now that I'm in midwifery school people want to know all about it. What's it like? How many babies have you 'delivered'? What do you do for X, Y and Z? My niece, daughter, neighbors third cousin wants to be a midwife, can I give them your phone number?
Well, let me just let you all in on a little secret. The first semester of midwifery school is more school than midwifery. We are not doing our clinicals yet. It's a lot of learning about psychology, history, anatomy, how to write a research paper and how to take a blood pressure. My anatomy teacher told us during the first week of school that our first year is a "shake down cruise" to drop off all the misfit midwifery students before moving on the to "placentas and cervices," or as I like to call it- the GOOD stuff!
Lucky for me I'm already in contact with my preceptor. I've gotten the opportunity to go to her prenatal visits and two of her births. One a water birth and one a VBAC. Starting Thursday I'm going to be working in her office as an office assistant. I'm really excited to start learning the business side of a home birth midwifery practice.
Every week at school gets me closer to January when we can start officially precepting and counting our births! I can't wait to start blogging all about it!
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