A week in review

My cool son

Joshua has sunnies like daddy now, very cool. He even left them on the whole way to the airport to pick my mum up.

He is my trendy boy.

He also has a keen eye for Style. He now is the very proud owner of 3 pairs of wiggles shoes!!!
















Another week gone by and in contrast a quiet one. Delivering slippery little suckers. I caught a Meka, Matthew, and some other names that I've forgotten already. I get so embarrassed when they want to take photos of me with the baby. But I do it cause I know how special it is for the parents. After all I've just caught their baby!!! Yesterday I had someone almost bite my hand. I politely asked her not to bite me, but was totally freaking out as women can turn into monsters when labouring. Afterwards we had a laugh and I guess I'll be forever known by them as the student midwife who almost lost a finger!!!


I've also learnt how to swear in many different languages. Its amazing to see women walk in as sweet as pie and with a few contractions turn into a Medusa!!! I have a bit of a chuckle at the things they say to their husbands too, some of them yell at him and tell him its all his fault, one lady said in her native tongue- 'don't hold my hand, only I am allowed to hold yours' What the???? Usually the husbands just look at me for reassurance and we smile trying to not let on that we are having a little inside giggle at the poor women in pain. Husbands are always so attentive to their wives, its such a great experience to be part of and I can't tell you how much I love it.


I do have bad days as well, like the other day when a women proceeded...Oh maybe I shouldn't write that story, lets just say I caught more than a baby and placenta that day!! So far no one has requested to take their placenta home or for a lotus birth, not sure what my reaction would be. I'd die if someone wanted to make placenta soup!!! I kind of feel like a butcher sometimes. Oh and a lotus birth is where the women wants the placenta to 'fall off naturally', this can take a few days so they have the baby with the placenta still attached, apparently you put it in a bag with a salt solution in it so it doesn't start to smell like rotten raw meat.....


So last week I decided to take my mum and boys out to dinner at a restaurant. I must now officially remind myself why I do not go to restaurants with 20 month olds. Joshua has an extremely good arm and manages to throw objects with great force across a crowded room with such ease. But I love him. Joel is the kind of kid that has to test out the toilets within about 1 minute of us being seated. Cody just prefers to lie across the table and draw.......Lets just say we ate very quickly but here is some photos of my beautiful men.

My Beautiful Men

OMG I forgot to mention, I got stuck in the lift at work the other day with another Midwife. How Embarrassing, we just cracked up laughing then pressed the little phone button in the lift, I also got on my phone to tell the girls on the ward we were stuck- all of whom came running to the lift and began knocking on the door laughing at us. We then panicked when we realised it still wasn't moving and we may have to resort to climbing up the man hole and going through the roof. After about 10 mins of laughing, wheezing and almost wetting ourselves, it started to move. I was trying to talk to the switchboard operator and all we could do was laugh. Did I mention we were on the top floor and if the lift broke we would have a long fall ahead of us?? .....Anyway if was funny for me......

I almost got killed today driving home from the city with my friend Sally... I had a huge delayed reaction when a car almost side swiped me. I kind of did a girly scream/high pitched sound. I think I scared Sally with my scream more than the car that was just about to kiss her....We waved to the silly little P plater laughing our appendages off in the process.

My mummy is down now and looking after me and the boys. Its so cool, she made me lunch today to take to uni......she is also knitting my friends some scarves which are very funky.

NEWS FLASH .........NEWS FLASH.............NEWS FLASH.................NEWS FLASH......................

I seriously think I have a nostril hair.... I don't know what to do?? Do I pluck it and hope a whole forest doesn't start to sprout over night or do I ignore it and the people that stare at my nose when they talk to me???? Oh the tragedy......