Midwife Creative Writings Samples For Students

Creative Writing on Toni Morrison’s Novel Song of Salomon Chapter 1 Pages 41-44

A Fairy tale: “A Brown Piece of Paper”. Once upon a time there lived a man whose name was Macon Dead. He was a very unusual man for he named all his children, except for the first-born male, by thumbing at random in the Bible. His wife died giving birth to their daughter and a poor man was confused and devastated by his loss. But a girl needed a name. So broken-hearted father took a Bible, and, as he could not read, chose a group of letters that seemed to him strong and handsome: he imagined that it was ...

Reflection of working with women during pregnancy and in the postnatal period

I first met Ashley at the Nepean antenatal clinic. At the time, she was 30+1 gestational weeks. I established from her history that this was her third pregnancy. Her first pregnancy had been in the year 2001. She had not carried the pregnancy to term because she had had a miscarriage. Her second pregnancy was in 2010. For this pregnancy, she had a normal vaginal delivery at 37+1 weeks. She had given birth to a live female infant, Isobel, who weighed 3140 grams. She had attended the visit with Isobel who is now 2 yrs old. A UA was performed ...

2/4/12 gestation 29+1 weeks
My first encounter with Christie was at St Mary community centre, where she had come for her antenatal clinic in the company of her mother Kate. I introduced myself and explained to her that I was a student midwife who was going to follow up with her pregnancy to the end. She agreed and I thanked her for her assent. This was her 5th pregnancy with one home delivery; the other three had been terminated before 8 weeks. By looking at her I could tell that she had a difficult life, at only 21 she ...