Real stories – Dona, registered midwife
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Dona talks about her day at work.
My patient has just had a beautiful baby girl, the baby is beautiful. And Dad has just got this beaming smile on his face and it is so hard not to cry when you see the Dad’s crying, that is really what makes me break down after a birth. Like, if Dad starts to cry, that’s it, I can’t hold it together. But everything is just beautiful.
You know, what I really love about being a midwife is that I am just there with women at this most vulnerable and exciting and fantastic and special time in their life when they are giving birth to a baby and I am the one there for them. I am there to mop the brow and bring them drinks and do all the basic things as well as the medical things and to be there for her and talk to her and get to know her and really bond with her.
And it is such a privilege to be there for this magical time in people’s lives when they have a baby. It just feels so special that you are the one that they are sharing it with and you are the one caring for them. It is beautiful. I love my job. I love it!
Today we were delivering a baby and I had a student midwife in there with me, trying not take over and because it’s all exciting and I just you know, go for it, and I am talking and I’m meant to be stepping to one side because I am trying to teach her at the same time. She is doing really good and I remember how I feel when I was a student midwife and how nervous I was and she is looking at me and I am just giving her encouragement and it feels really good that I am the one who is qualified now and I am helping others learn. It is great.