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A brand new resource for midwifery students wanting to expand their knowledge and experience of reflective writing. This new product from The Happy Student Company is a hyperlinked PDF document allowing you to choose from a range of reflective model templates to plan out your reflective writing, then write up your reflections in full. There’s […]
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My experience of continuity of carer as a student midwife
My experience of continuity of carer as a student midwife Kerry Clark – Second-year student midwife, Sheffield Hallam University. Instagram: @_kerrylc I have chosen Atkins and Murphy’s five stage model to guide my reflection upon experiencing a continuity of carer (CoC) model when I was a first-year student midwife.1 This reflection analyses my experience and […]
An Open Letter to Midwives: Black Lives Matter
An Open Letter to Midwives: Black Lives Matter Matilda Oluyemi – Student Midwife, Robert Gordon University. Instagram: @matildaaforever. Jyll Skinner – Student Midwife, Robert Gordon University. Twitter: @rethought. Claire Vigot – Student Midwife, Robert Gordon University. Twitter: @claire_vigot. Dear Midwives, It’s time, and past time, to have a discussion […]
The Impact of COVID-19 on Rwanda’s student midwives
The Impact of COVID-19 on Rwanda’s student midwives Series curator: Alicia Burnett – Third year student midwife. Social media: @ABurnett_StMW on Twitter. Hubert – Student Midwife, Rwanda Since the 2nd of January 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has been working to respond to the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19, and […]
A Different Time
A Different Time Series curator: Alicia Burnett – Third year student midwife. Social media: @ABurnett_StMW on Twitter. Jill – Third year student midwife, England Balancing study, placements and general life can be tricky for student midwives at the best of times. A pandemic is not the best of times. Here, I reflect […]
Safer Sleeping and Cultural Practices
Safer Sleeping and Cultural Practices Sian Woodward, Third-Year Student Midwife – De Montfort University. Twitter: @sian_stmw. Sian Woodward uses ‘Gibbs Reflective Model’ to reflect upon safer sleeping advice in relation to traditional, cultural infant sleeping practices.1 This reflection highlights the importance of midwives and students recognising and respecting diversity and cultural […]
The Second-Year Blues: An Emotional Rollercoaster
The Second-Year Blues: An emotional rollercoaster Mollie Cook, Second-Year Student Midwife – Swansea University In this WANT blog post Mollie Cook critically reflects upon the impact of different placement settings and experiences that can lead to the “Second-Year Blues”, in an attempt to better understand the emotional journey of being a student midwife and becoming […]
An Empowered Birth: A real life account of a vaginal breech birth
An Empowered Birth: A real life account of a vaginal breech birth Claudia Shipley – First-Year Student Midwife at University of Central Lancashire In this reflective blog, Claudia Shipley recounts the vaginal breech birth of her firstborn child; using Johns’ model of reflection, Claudia examines how her birth experience was improved by care which […]