My keen interest in midwifery came from being inspired by a midwife from the Eden team. Her friendly and encouraging nature, brought real comfort to me when I wasn't feeling my best, that experience has got me to where I am today, it gave me the confidence to be able to pursue my career in midwifery and one day become an inspiring midwife and give other women a positive experience throughout their pregnancy, birth and postnatal period. I understand that the role of a midwife is to provide care for women throughout pregnancy, labour, delivery and postnatal period, also to provide essential care to the newborn. I understand this can be extremely demanding and sometimes emotionally and pyhsically draining as well as uplifting, as you are dealing
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I found that while doing this it made me recognise how good my communication, organisation, time management, and compassionate skills were. Just like midwifery some weeks were a lot harder than others, as I would have lots of cakes one week and not so many the next week, some days i would work for 12-14 hours on several cakes with no breaks, but with all the hard work I put in, I met my customers needs. By offering potential customers taste testing and consultation sessions, this helped me and the customers build up a quick relationship so they felt at ease and were able to express any concerns they had and tell me exactly what they wanted from me. By listening to them I gained an insight of their personality which enabled me to adapt myself appropriately it also helped me to understand their emotions and how passionately they felt about the cake and what it meant to their special day, it also helped me to create their dream cake, and make their experience a happy memory. This relates a lot to the role of a midwife as its important to be aproachable so you can build up relationships quickly with expectant mothers and her family making them feel they can easily express their views and opinons which is important as this enables the midwife to understand what this family wants and able to give them the choices avaiable to them and ensure this life changing experience is a happy memory, as the journey of
I found that while doing this it made me recognise how good my communication, organisation, time management, and compassionate skills were. Just like midwifery some weeks were a lot harder than others, as I would have lots of cakes one week and not so many the next week, some days i would work for 12-14 hours on several cakes with no breaks, but with all the hard work I put in, I met my customers needs. By offering potential customers taste testing and consultation sessions, this helped me and the customers build up a quick relationship so they felt at ease and were able to express any concerns they had and tell me exactly what they wanted from me. By listening to them I gained an insight of their personality which enabled me to adapt myself appropriately it also helped me to understand their emotions and how passionately they felt about the cake and what it meant to their special day, it also helped me to create their dream cake, and make their experience a happy memory. This relates a lot to the role of a midwife as its important to be aproachable so you can build up relationships quickly with expectant mothers and her family making them feel they can easily express their views and opinons which is important as this enables the midwife to understand what this family wants and able to give them the choices avaiable to them and ensure this life changing experience is a happy memory, as the journey of