Midwifery Personal Statement

Throughout personal professional development reflection is essential, allowing health care professionals to self-develop by revisiting events and analysing areas in which improvements and learning would ensure a positive impact on their future practice. The Nursing and Midwifery Council, (NMC, 2010) notes that all health care practitioners must be self-aware in their own values and principles which could affect their practice. Ensuring they maintain personal and professional development while learning through supervision, feedback and reflection.

By believing the biggest miracle in life is birth motivates me to care for the community by contributing to the world as a midwife. The story of my birth has unravelled my desire to explore the miracles of life. It was when my mother told me the story of the dangerous and life threatening experience of giving birth to me, without any help or support of medical facilities. I was then astonished by the pregnancy of my mother, how her body changed and how difficult it was for her to accomplish normal day to day activities. As a child by caring for my mother through her pregnancy I felt appreciated and found the experience rewarding. I am drawn to the fact that midwives not only offer care for women throughout pregnancy, delivery and the postnatal period but also build rapport with them and their families.

I believe as a Midwifery Student at Australian Catholic University (ACU) that childbirth is a natural life process. Within my philosophy, my aim is to provide a women-centred care based on evidence- based practice. Also the importance of supporting women with cultural variation, social circumstance and understanding other specific needs throughout the woman’s pregnancy. The women-centred care is an essential quality to a midwife as it ensure that the women is educated in healthy lifestyle choices within pregnancy, childbirth and during parenthood. This relationship of “women-centred care” is the key to midwifery practices as Australian College of Midwives (2009) refers to the philosophy of maternity care that promotes a holistic approach by recognising each women’s social, emotional, physical, spiritual and cultural needs. In retrospect, it is important to reflect on your past experiences during your midwifery practice but also your life beyond midwifery.

On my journey of becoming a registered midwife, I firstly gained experience working in the NHS as a volunteer on the postnatal ward at the Royal Free Hospital. This post has not only given me an excellent insight into the work of a clinical midwife, but helped me to enhance my communication skills and build my confidence in working in a hospital environment. The continuous training opportunities and the supportive staff has made me more confident that working as a part of the NHS team is the right career choice for me.

I have experienced children with mixed abilities and on a personal level I have experience with children with selective mutism, fetal alcohol syndrome and speech and language delays. I work with small groups of children to challenge them to achieve their next level of learning. I am aware of the changes to the National Curriculum and children’s next steps in their learning and apply them were necessary. I have built up strong relationships with staff and children and I feel I support teachers and children in the day to day running of the

I have had numerous opportunities to volunteer and work with children of all abilities. Many of these children had independent or concurrent learning disabilities, emotional problems, and/or behavioural problems. I met these individuals through organizations I volunteered or worked for, programs I organized, and through summer camps where I was a counsellor that all catered children with disabilities. I also have personal relationships with children of family friends.

While there are many challenges that present themselves when deciding to go back to school, nothing compares to the end result of completion. The many obstacles can also be the motivating factors in succeeding. Having been married for a short time I will have to deal with balancing my relationship with my new husband and working as an on-call midwife. This in turn offers our relationship the ability to grow in the face of challenge. I have an incredible support system pushing me to be my best and to help reaffirm my commitment to midwifery in times of need. I know that working on-call can be tiresome but being trusted to aide in birth is one of the most precious gifts. To me, midwifery is a lifestyle not a job. A good friend of mine is currently

As a result of my past, growing up in a single parent household and raising my own children in a single parent household, I am able to manage stress in a healthy way, patience, and empathy. I believe the rigorous and intense demands of nursing match my capabilities. I feel like I was person is born with the characteristics of becoming a great nurse. As a nurse, I would like to be a caring leader in healthcare, a team player, and most importantly, a role model to my three children. As a nurse you really are putting someone else before yourself and that person you are helping becomes so appreciative of you for doing that.

At the age of 16 years, I remember I have always said to my friends and family I want to start my own family by the age of 21 and as fate would have it or one might say its just a cliché, I was pregnant with my first baby at the age 21 years. With no idea of what is to come during those nice months I was pregnant, and especially the anticipation of labour and what it would be like, how to go about, if any difficulties may happen and so many thoughts was running through my minds during those months of pregnancy and these thoughts gets even intense as I approached my expectant due date (EDD). I had to put my faith and trust in the professional care and advice I was offered by healthcare teams, most especially the midwives that were of assistance

At the age of 8, I was fascinated with all aspects of pregnancy, as this was the time when my mother became pregnant. I attended as many antenatal sessions with my mother as I possibly could, where I discovered that midwives play a vital role in assisting mother and baby through the most important stages of pregnancy and the postnatal period. After having an interest for more than 9 years now, I feel like my main aim should be attending the right university course to enable me to gain a greater understanding of the medical and practical sides of midwifery. I believe that my two core qualities are care and nurture, which are two vital attributes to pursue a career in the health sector.

Midwifery is a role that hugely appeals to me as it isn’t just clinical skills that are offered to the women, it allows for a relationship to form with them and their families. This is important to me because it would allow the women to feel completely comfortable in a stressful but life changing event. I have always wanted to be take up a caring, supportive and helpful career and as soon as I did some research into the role of a midwife I was immediately hooked and knew it was the right path for me to follow.

Great post, very informative. Midwifery was definitely was the primary route of child delivery. Midwifery was never trained medically, but was very knowledgeable and experienced about the procedures and medicine (Houlihan). It is true that new medicine and science has discovered advanced way to treat patients and relieve the pain while giving birth to child, but the personal care, and natural resources midwifery can never be compared. Martha Ballard is an altruistic woman who devoted her entire life helping others through midwifery, especially on child delivery. Ballard used to help in child delivery, prescribe medicine and even nurse the patients and physicians were called only at a time of medical emergency. I totally agree when your classmate

I looked at my baby brother cradled in my arms and cooed at him. I was only five but I liked the responsibility of taking care of him. Smart for my age I held a lot of responsibility. I smiled up at my mother silently asking if I was doing it right and she nodded a smile on her face also. My sister sat beside me as we smiled at the camera. It proved to be a very good day as we laughed and sat together as a family. Philip Green said, “It’s all about the quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” Statistics have shown me that employment of physicians and obstetrics is projected to grow 14% from 2014 to 2024. Obstetrics is the key to making sure pregnant women have someone to lean on and making the importance

Midwifery to me is a subject like no other, it's not just an interest, it's a passion and its components are a major part of my life. Since the birth of my 4 beautiful children and then the 12 wonderful nieces and nephews that followed , my knowledge in all things pregnancy, childbirth and babies has grew and grew along with my insatiable thirst to know more. I have been the mother giving birth and the supportive birthing partner on many occasions, the worried new mother and the care giver to relatives in their antenatal and postpartum periods. Along the way I have gained first and second hand experience with conditions as such as preeclampsia, cholestasis, mastitis, antenatal depression, postnatal

There are many things I would like to achieve during my life span. My main goal is to become a midwife, a woman who assists another woman in childbirth. I want to become a midwife because I have always had a passion for babies and soon after career research, I knew that midwifery was what interested me the most. Becoming a midwife will take a lot of school and patients, these are few steps I have to take to accomplish this goal.