MM, I love reading your experiences, they are very refreshing and I hope are inspiring new students to get 'stuck in' straight away. I had a similar experience with flat baby at the start of my DS placement. Baby didn't breathe for 7 mins - I will never forget her. It made me realise that sometimes things go wrong, even when there has been no indications. She was fine in the end, but It could have been different and It made me think about how I would react if we ended up having a worse case senario and the baby hadn't have made it - what I would say to the parents and how I would manage my own feelings.

It's good exprience, and let's face it, we are all probably going to have to deal with that situation now and again.

KS x

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Thanks KS,

It makes all the difference when you get 'stuck in' as soon as you can on a placement, you get so much more out of it then. But I know from experience that it isn't always that easy, but I do hope that I can help in a small way to encourage others to do as much as they can as early on as they can.

When you have an experience like that it makes you evaluate things in a whole different way doesn't it? You are quite right, it is something that sadly we are all going to come across and have to deal with one day.

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Had a really busy shift today, and hardly had time to stop for more than five minutes at a time.

After I started on shift I went with my mentor to be introduced to a lady we were going to be taking over the care of when the other midwife finished. In the end the baby was delivered by ventouse...a different one than I saw used before, but the name of it escapes me.

Later on I had chance to go in and witness a very quick normal delivery of a lady that another midwife was caring for. After the earlier experience it was lovely to see a normal birth.

Started to care for another lady with my mentor who was in early labour, and I was encouraged by my mentor to carry out obs on this lady and generally care for her.

Inbetween caring for this lady, I got chance to witness another normal delivery by another midwife, I arrived in the room just as the vertex was visible, and the head crowned, and the baby slid out with the next contraction.

It has been a lovely shift for the most part, although I found the beginning difficult for various reasons. I have witnessed more deliveries today than I have for the last few shifts put together which was great.

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MM does that mean you have your five now?....

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Yes it does, and another one besides just for good measure!!

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Yes you did, you clever lady.

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wahhhoooooo!!! and Cb you really should advertise your psychic talents!

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Thanks J ™,

I should feel like that too, but I feel totally flat, not how I expected to feel at all, maybe I am just tired.

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go to bed, hun... think about it tomorrow! You'll prob DREAM about babies hehe

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