Head On View (midwife life)

By Midwives: Carly (RM/RN) and Laura (RM/LC)Society & Culture Personal Journals

Head On View (midwife life) episodes

March 15, 2021 Ep 6: Keep on breastfeeding
The WHO recommends breastfeeding to continue up to the age of 2 years or beyond. The benefits of breastfeeding are widely known, and people will happily give their babies breastmilk from other mammals (cows, goats)... so why is it still so controversial to continue feeding your bubba with your own milk once they start toddlering around.
Of course everyone will have an opinion on the subject and will gladly tell you what they think you should be doing. What happened to my body, my choice 🤷‍♀️
We are proud to support all you "extended" breastfeeding mamas out there 🤱
33 min
February 25, 2021 Ep 5: Burnout and selfcare
Our lovely friend Hannah joins us today to chat. Burnout is very real in nursing and midwifery, so let's talk about how we can look after ourselves. Self care, yes everyone's talking about it, but it doesn't make it any less important. Self care comes in many forms, so whether that's a bottle of vino with your girlfriends, leaving all your sweat on the floor at a crossfit class, getting wrinkly in a bubblebath or some self-love (with your 'massager'!!), you do you and look after yourselves 😘
36 min
February 16, 2021 Ep 4: Covid feels
EP 4: Covid, corona 19, the rona.......we're here living in a panny D!!!! Social distancing, wash your hands, PPE, contact tracing, lockdown....pretty much everyone is now familiar with a whole bunch of terms they never were before. Hands up when you first heard about covid, if you didn't really give it a second thought...it will be like swine flu, bird flu, SARS....something that happens on the other side of the world and really doesn't touch you or make a difference to your life.
But here we are, like most people we had holidays cancelled, kids to be home schooled, jobs were lost and gained, but unlike a lot of people as health professionals the majority of us were still fronting up to work every day, unable to work from home. So how did work change for us....and how are we coping????
38 min
January 31, 2021 Ep 3: Great expectations
Welcome to Penny, meet our number 3. Join us for a chat about expectations. It's not an easy path to become a midwife, the years at uni, the hours at placement (essentially working a full time job for free), the essays, exams, grad year applications and interviews......But now we're here, on the other side, so how is it? Is working as a midwife what we expected, compared to our student days and our pre-midwife life. Do we love it, hate it, somewhere inbetween?
35 min
January 24, 2021 Episode 2: #Instaworthy
This week we're talking about pregnancy and birth in the media. Birth always seems so dramatic, everyone panicking and the woman screaming...and then voila....rather large and very clean baby appears.
We're also chatting about the pressures of social media and having an instaworthy pregnancy, birth and baby.
31 min
January 16, 2021 Intro
Hello and welcome to the first ep of Head On View - intro ep...meet the hosts.
27 min