Midwifery training.

I took some tests today, and all went well, very well actually. So I'm quite happy with that. This trimester we've been studying everything around birth, going into labour, catching a baby, doing a neonatal research and everything. Extremely interessting, very cool to see the stuff you learn in school during your training period in a midwifery-practice.

As I'm updating this concept-message, my results came back. I'm doing really good so far, so yay me!

Anyways, wanted to show you some pictures to give you a feel of what we're doing in training here in the Netherlands.






This one makes me laugh :)


studying anatomy


This is what I'd bring with me if I'm called for labour. An obstetrics set, an oxygen set, and of course my visits bag.



A sneak-peek of the contents of both the oxygen set and obstetrics set.

Midwifery is a 4 year training program (in my case) at Rotterdam University. In those 4 years you'll be spending a great deal of time in different local midwifery practices to become experienced and to train on the job.
In order to graduate, you must've caught at least 60 babies (meaning you guided them out of the birth canal), you must've performed at least 300 follow-up appointments and a whole range of different things like examining the neonate and actively take part in a breech birth. Quite thorough!