My choice to become a Midwife
So... What would be a good reason to study midwifery? To go through the selection procedures with all your heart just to make it to the beginning of the schoolyear with only a few people compared to the bunch of motivated people that started the selection process?
The thing is: I don't know. I admitted myself even though I didn't have a clue whether it would be something for me. I didn't want to become a doctor because they Always look at the pathological side, I also didn't want to become a nurse... So I thought, what better way to start a medical career than in Midwifery? Physiological, not too hard, bingo! Oh, I couldn't have been further off from the truth. Even though I didn't know what on Earth I got myself into, I passed the selection and made it into the first year. I was beyond excited and couldn't wait, but once I started I realised this was not what I had signed up for. Not at all.
Even though the main focus is on physiology there's so much pathological stuff to know. And to be honest: I love it. I love how studying midwifery is as challenging as you'd like it to be. I absolutely love learning more about the topics we're studying so I know every little process that goes on. I love learning about how we function as humans and how it has all been made inside our mother's womb. Sometimes I think about changing to Medschool with the desire to become an Ob-Gyn, but I Always come back to midwifery. Even though the basic side of midwifery isn't probably going to entertain me for the rest of my life, there are so many ways in which I can specialise and learn more and more. Once I graduate I plan to do a master's degree in clinical midwifery, I want to learn how to make ultrasounds and I want to work abroad. I want to offer all my knowledge and care to the women that normally wouldn't be able to get it: the ones in refugee camps or in rural areas of the world.
I didn't know what I got myself into, not at all. But I'm glad to say that I found it to be so much more than I initially hoped for.
The thing is: I don't know. I admitted myself even though I didn't have a clue whether it would be something for me. I didn't want to become a doctor because they Always look at the pathological side, I also didn't want to become a nurse... So I thought, what better way to start a medical career than in Midwifery? Physiological, not too hard, bingo! Oh, I couldn't have been further off from the truth. Even though I didn't know what on Earth I got myself into, I passed the selection and made it into the first year. I was beyond excited and couldn't wait, but once I started I realised this was not what I had signed up for. Not at all.
Even though the main focus is on physiology there's so much pathological stuff to know. And to be honest: I love it. I love how studying midwifery is as challenging as you'd like it to be. I absolutely love learning more about the topics we're studying so I know every little process that goes on. I love learning about how we function as humans and how it has all been made inside our mother's womb. Sometimes I think about changing to Medschool with the desire to become an Ob-Gyn, but I Always come back to midwifery. Even though the basic side of midwifery isn't probably going to entertain me for the rest of my life, there are so many ways in which I can specialise and learn more and more. Once I graduate I plan to do a master's degree in clinical midwifery, I want to learn how to make ultrasounds and I want to work abroad. I want to offer all my knowledge and care to the women that normally wouldn't be able to get it: the ones in refugee camps or in rural areas of the world.
I didn't know what I got myself into, not at all. But I'm glad to say that I found it to be so much more than I initially hoped for.
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