Personal Narrative: My Experience As A Midwife

Coming from a large family, birth and pregnancy were a very common events in my household, from a young age I evoke being curious about my mother’s pregnancies and as I got older and got a better understanding of the stages of birth and pregnancy I became captivated by my mother’s pregnancies and insisted that I attended as many antenatal appointments that I could. I also became very interested with the midwife that came to our house and provided my mother with all the support she needed and the job she done. I concluded that midwives play an important role throughout pregnancy, the labour, and the postnatal period, and also in a woman and her family’s lives, providing them with all the maintenance and assistance they can get. Eventually I

developed a strong interest in midwifery, and this makes me very keen in perusing my interest in midwifery.
Volunteering to work in a walk- in clinic had enabled me the opportunity, with consent from the patients to shadow a doctor at the clinic, through this I’ve had the chance to communicate with the patients and absorb each of their individual circumstances, this helped me achieve skills that would be useful for me to use as a midwife.

I understand that being a midwife requires being very friendly and approachable and my time spent at the clinic I think these were very commonly used skills; both could come in handy because midwives need to be welcoming, supportive, and helpful dealing with women and their families during a very stressful yet incredible and significant period of their

lives.
Travelling extensively due to family and having to live abroad for some time, I have been exposed to dissimilar societies and cultures, it has taught me to become accustomed hurriedly to new circumstances and provided me with the life experience and the capability of dealing with diverse people from all over the world, this makes me committed to giving excellent care to women of different race, religion, culture, and of all ages.
I’ve looked into the roles of specialist midwives such as teenage pregnancy midwives, this appeal to me in the coming future. I’ve learnt that pregnant teenagers and young fathers do not get as much access to maternity care early in pregnancy. Moreover, young women and their babies do not get all the support they need and are not properly taken care of compared to the older women and some of them smoke throughout pregnancy and do not breastfeed as much as older women and therefore experience worse results. Babies of teenagers are more likely to be born low birthweight and or premature, I’ve gathered that this is not acknowledged properly. I think that the requirements of young women and their partners are not properly met and this could have a negative impact on their baby.
I speak two languages fluently, and also understand Arabic and studied other languages; this makes me delicate to others as I will understand they’re pint of view better.

And above that it makes me a strong candidate in the study of midwifery as I will be able to develop a strong bond with the patients and give me a better perspective of the world. This day in age England is a multicultural country and being multilingual is a serious advantage as this would help me in my profession and everyday life and help me communicate with a wider variety of people.

Having to attend work, college, and making sure I stayed up to date with all my work improved my organisational skills, this I consider would be extremely valuable to me as a midwife. I rely on the fact that midwifery would give me an opportunity to fulfil my desire to help and care for people. Granting midwifery would be challenging, overpowering this is what makes the job so fulfilling. I certainly believe that midwifery is something I want to be part of my everyday life and I would be privileged at the amazing opportunity of being invited

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