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Decisions, decisions, decisons.....

Posted 27-Jan-2010 at 13:33 by TallPoppy (The best way to predict your future is to create it....)

You know that whole thing about 'the greater good'? Doing things to benefit the majority rather than the few?

I don’t like that much.

I'd like it to be so everyone benefits, all the time.

This time, I think I’ve managed it.

SMNET as you know is growing...
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Our lil site is almost 2 years old....

Posted 05-Oct-2009 at 15:37 by TallPoppy (The best way to predict your future is to create it....)

And it all started at our kitchen table. One night, very late, me and the old man drinking tea and having a natter - me thinking about an assignment – nowhere to go and get help and support of the kind I needed. You can always have your own site, says the old man.... me? Lil old me? Dya think? O00o...
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Communicating with women - Is language important?

Posted 16-Jan-2009 at 18:53 by TallPoppy (The best way to predict your future is to create it....)

The language that we and other clinicians use when interacting with our clients, in my view, is very important. I recall the feeling of deep nausea I felt when a woman I was caring for was almost berated for 'having' a retained placenta. After trying everything we could to help her deliver the placenta...
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The SMNET Community

Posted 04-Jan-2009 at 15:43 by TallPoppy (The best way to predict your future is to create it....)
Updated 04-Jan-2009 at 15:49 by TallPoppy

Well .... here it is... 2009..... Let’s make it a fantastic year for your midwifery career, mums and babies and midwifery education.

Looking over the past year through my SMNET eyes, it’s been a brilliant year! We have made it to be the most popular midwifery education/social site...
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"There are no strangers here, just friends you haven't met yet..."

Posted 17-Oct-2008 at 10:57 by TallPoppy (The best way to predict your future is to create it....)
Updated 17-Oct-2008 at 11:40 by TallPoppy

Cheesy but true.

In the year that SMNET has been up (Happy Birthday to us on the 30th October!) .... Wow. That went quick!....I have made so many new friends, some are now my best friends and all because of this place. Gone are the days when meeting people online before you meet them offline
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