The Writer Within: A Midwife’s Reflective Path To Unveiling VBAC Stories Hazel Keedle – Editor-in-Chief, The Practising Midwife Australia and Senior Lecturer of Midwifery, Western Sydney University Social @hazelkeedle Published in The Practising Midwife Australia Volume 02 Issue 03 February 2024, Pages 32-34 https://doi.org/10.55975/XDHD5357 Summary This article is a continuation of the Voices series on […]
A Student’s Reflective Book Review: Flourish by Kate Greenstock
A Student’s Reflective Book Review: Flourish by Kate Greenstock Chloë Merilla Morgan-Tyghe – Student midwife, Edinburgh Instagram @merillamuses I speak to all third-year student midwives looking to the precipice of the next step: the newly-qualified midwife era. I look to this next step, just months away, with such mingled excitement, relief, overwhelming disbelief and, to […]
A First-Year Student Midwife’s Reflection of an Eclamptic Seizure
A First-Year Student Midwife’s Reflection of an Eclamptic Seizure Sophie Hadlington Green (she/her) – Student midwife, Birmingham City University Instagram @sophiehgreen Summary In this blog, Student midwife Sophie Hadlington Green reflects her placement experience of a birthing person having an eclamptic seizure, using the Gibbs’ reflective model.1 As health-care professionals, it is important to reflect […]
Book Review: Mobile Midwives Transforming Birth Options A Memoir by Marge Foley
Book Review: Mobile Midwives Transforming Birth Options A Memoir by Marge Foley Review by: Shelley Macmillan – Midwife and lecturer Publication date: 2022 Format: Paperback 262pp RRP: $26.24 ISBN: 978-0645293302 As an avid audiobook listener on my two-hour commute, I was looking forward to actually reading this memoir during a week of leave. Mobile Midwives […]
Reflection: The Anxious Reality of a Newly-Qualified Midwife
Reflection: The Anxious Reality of a Newly-Qualified Midwife Elena Lickman (she/her) – Newly-qualified midwife Summary The transition from a student to a newly-qualified midwife (NQM) can be filled with many emotions. In this blog, Elena provides a candid account of her experiences as a NQM and discusses some of the anxieties and worries she faces. […]
A Reflection on Perceptions of Safety During the Latent Phase of Labour
A Reflection on Perceptions of Safety During the Latent Phase of Labour Esther Byrne – Newly qualified midwife, Birmingham City University Instagram @estherjoy95 Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 26 Issue 03 March 2023, Pages 32-34 https://doi.org/10.55975/BZWF6978 Summary This reflection will critically evaluate women’s perceptions of safety, by focusing on an episode of latent phase […]
Midwifery as a Calling. What is the Cost?
Midwifery as a Calling. What is the Cost? Siobhan Callaghan (she/her) – Second-year student midwife Instagram @siobhan_midwifeinthemaking Summary In this blog, I have been reflecting on midwifery as a vocation and how vocational occupations require an element of self-sacrifice. I have considered the sacrifices that I have personally made so far, and this has led […]
Midwifery… what counts? A reflection on a labour ward placement
Midwifery… what counts? A reflection on a labour ward placement Siobhan Callaghan [she/her] – First-year student midwife, The University of the West of Scotland Instagram @siobhan_midwifeinthemaking Summary In this blog, first-year midwifery student Siobhan Callaghan, reflects on her last month in placement on a labour ward, discussing her observation that as a student midwives, our […]
Mind Your Ps and Qs: The Power of Language
Mind Your Ps and Qs: The Power of Language Christina Feltham – Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, University of Central Lancashire Twitter @feltham_amcfcjf Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 25 Issue 06 June 2022, Pages 08-11 Summary How often do we stop to think about how we communicate with people and the impact our words have […]
Reflecting on the Unexpected Benefits of Postgraduate Study and Exploring Meaningful Personal Development Planning
Reflecting on the Unexpected Benefits of Postgraduate Study and Exploring Meaningful Personal Development Planning Tamsin Bicknell-Morel (she/her) – Consultant Midwife, Public Health and Safeguarding, Homerton University Hospital, London Twitter @tamsin_bicknell Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 25 Issue 06 June 2022, Pages 37-39 Summary No matter where you are in your career, reflecting on your […]