I had a chat with our placement facilitator on friday and she said how are you getting on.
I said, up and down but the majority of bad shifts are followed by good ones.

Her only advice was to try to be easy going, let it wash over you. Her words were "if you can't be flexible and thick skinned as a student, you'd struggle as a midwife, when you haven't got the student umbrella to protect you".

In a way, she is right. But it is difficult. Especially when you know that making a complaint could potentially make the rest of your student placement hell.

BUT not everyone is having a hard time with their mentors and I know my cohort are fantastically suppsortive, as I'm sure yours will be, Cariblue. Don't give up. I believe we can change things and we all know how it feels to be a newbie - I'm sure we'll all be lovely mentors and will take care of our fledgeling midwives.

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Student die Hebamme und ich liebe es!
(Student Midwife and I love it!)