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Your entitled moaning may be entirely appropriate

Posted on November 5, 2018November 16, 2018 by Talia Ripley

“I know it’s not your fault  but it’s just that I really have a thing about waiting, It makes me really stressed. We’ve been waiting for hours now. If the doctors think it’s so important for me to be induced why have we been waiting for so long.” There is no way on earth I…

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Why starting as a student midwife was like being in ‘Life on Mars’

Posted on October 26, 2018November 16, 2018 by Talia Ripley

This only makes sense if you’ve watch the time-travel series ‘Life on Mars’. Sorry to start a midwifery blog in such an inappropriately inaccessible way. Just the way it goes – it’s the only way to get across my initial feelings when I started as a student midwife 10 years ago. Maybe this will work…

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