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Dear Tina
I think it is wonderful and inspiring that your
courses have gone forward in times that are so difficult
I trust it will make your group of new B Mid
midwives so powerful in their contribution toward increased midwifery acre in
Australia
Thank you for sharing and persevering
Denise
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Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 5:55 AM
Subject: [ozmidwifery] (no subject)
Hello fellow ozmidders....
just a note to say hello
to you all and to say I am still here lurking in cyber space. I have just
completed my pain/pharmacology exam today (YEHAAA)...feeling great to have now
completed 3 of the 6 semesters of the B Mid...yes I am half way thru the
course, can you all believe that!!!!!! I still can't. I pinch myself every
day, to make sure I'm awake and not dreaming. It only seemed like yesterday
that I sat at the NZCOM conference in Hamilton in 2000, crying my eyes out I
watched and listened to the NZ B Mid students present their work...wondering
when/if my turn would ever come, shouldered by Kathleen Fahy, who told me to
have faith and reassured me it would.....(Hi Kathleen if your lurking :-) So
glad I' kept the faith Kathleen!! )
I continue to be inspired by my
midwife student peers from ACU, VU, Flinders and UNi SA thru the B Mid Student
Collective, which has grown to be an awesome forum of wonderful women and
midwives of the future - look out Darwin we are invading!!!!!!!.....I met some
of the inugural B Mid students from Monash in Gippsland at a great seminar day
the other week in which I was treated to some fantastic work by Trish Davids G
Dip students, on the 'Nature of Midwifery' where we facilited some great
discussion on the B Mid and how we will 'fit' into the midwifery landscape.
Again I was inspired by some wonderful midwifery minds and great
women.
This semester has seemed like the looooooooongest semester in
'herstory'....for me filled with 13 weeks of lectures/tutorials, essays by the
bucket load, four weeks of clinical placement, following thru 7 beautiful
women in their pregnancy and birthing journeys, two of whom birthed their
babes into my hands - what an honour!!!! I have worked alongside numerous
midwives, each with something unique and genuine to offer a wide eyed student
full of questions. THis journey new to them too, who have had an extended
teaching role, having never had before midwife students who need educating on
drawing up medications and giving injections, IV therapy,
catheterisation...etc etc...placement for me was a blast. I was exposed to so
much - a variety of experiences all valuable and rich learning.
Oh I
love being a midwife!!!!!!
(well I do again this week...pre exam not to
sure)
Yours in reforming midwifery
Tina Pettigrew.
B Mid Student
ACU
Melb
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BMidStudentCollective/
" As
we trust the flowers to open to new
life
- So we can trust birth"
Harriette Hartigan.
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