Becoming a midwife in Queensland - video transcript
Midwifery is a really diverse profession. There’s no two days that are the same. And depending on what area you work in or if you work in all areas, you have the ability to shape and change women and families journey right from the beginning through to six weeks after they’ve had their baby.
My first week when I started at university, I knew it is exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be there for women. I wanted to support them and I wanted to change how society viewed birth and that first journey into parenthood.
Midwifery is brilliant. You see the best of just about everyone. All you need to do is be caring and kind because that’s hard to teach.
I think I’m incredibly blessed. I’m at the cusp of midwifery changing. It’s really really rewarding. It’s rewarding to see midwifery becoming more prevalent, more talked about, women seeking midwifery care in particular.
You’re meeting families from day one you’re in, in an environment where you’re, you’re working in a practical sense. You’re attending births with women, you’re helping them through the pregnancy, postnatally. So you’re learning in a way that suits you. The universities offer this really amazing blend of practical experience learning in the hospital with other midwives, with learning the fundamentals.
Your focus, maybe on pregnancy, but it goes far beyond that scope. It’s parenting, it’s ways of using challenges in life generally, and you take on board how they handle some of the challenges as ways that you can strictly enhance your life.
I’ve had the privilege of looking after families looking after lots of sisters birthing their babies, and then I’ve actually birthed them when they’ve had a baby. It puts you at the forefront of meeting new people meeting their challenges, letting them enrich you at the same time as you can enrich them.
And there won’t be one single midwife who doesn’t make a difference in someone’s journey. Maybe it’s one of the most selfish professions in the world for that reason, because you do get so much out of it. And it’s so joyous. It’s just such a wonderful job. I don’t think there’s any job like midwifery.
