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 Hello from Holland Hi everyone, I'm a third year student midwife in Holland and read an article recently inviting international students to this site in the publication from the KNOV - the Dutch RCM. I am an English mum of four (!) and had secured a place at Kings to study midwifery just before we had to move to Holland because of my husbands work. We have been here for 4 years now and after hastily learning Dutch I was lucky enough to secure a place on the 4 year midwifery training programme here in Rotterdam. Midwifery is very different in Holland, as many of you may have heard - home birth is the first choice for most women here and we currently maintain a 35% home birth rate. The training is of course very much geared towards this culture of home delivery - midwives run their own group practices and work a combination of 24 on-call shifts for labouring mums and clinics 2 or 3 times a week, depending on the client base. I am now half way through my third year of study and have delivered 31 babies to date - more than half of these at home. Whether we will stay here after I have completed my training, I am not sure. I would love to come back to the UK and try and incorporate some of the working models that are so successful here in Holland. It's not a perfect system but has a lot to offer and I'm sure I could use my experiences here to help improve practice in the UK. Now, back to my research! Elinor      |
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| Re: Hello from Holland Great to have you onboard Elinor! Welcome  and wow! having to learn Dutch so fast and now you are studying midwifery in it! Brilliant stuff! I am so jealous of your training, half the babies at home, that is fantastic! I look forward to hearing lots more about your course and the attitudes in Holland to pregnancy, birth and the care of women and babies.....Can you let me have a copy of the article where you found us? thanks JJx
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| Re: Hello from Holland hi wewlcome to the site
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