THE STORY OF MY LIFE BEING A MIDWIFE!
Hi, everyone, how are you today?
I
graduated from Diploma 3 Education in 2020 and have never worked because I
continued my education as a Diploma 4 midwife. Many things happened during my
practice as a midwife at PMB, hospitals, and puskesmas.
Being
a midwife is not what people expect, the midwife is responsible for many things
for her patients, especially mothers and babies. The midwifery profession is considered a noble job by the community.
Childbirth is exhausting and agonizing, and going through it causes anxiety and
stress. As a midwife, we must remain calm and critical in order to take any
risks that may occur to the patient, because the midwife must be ready and
alert to anything that may occur. Midwives must be prepared for their sleep to
be disrupted. When I do internships at PMB and hospitals, I can't sleep at
night because I'm preparing for the possibility of a patient arriving in the
middle of the night. The irregular sleeping hours did not make me sick at
first. Time by time I have gotten used
to unpredictable sleeping hours.
The
most difficult thing I witnessed during my internship at the hospital was the
baby not moving during pregnancy or the death of the fetus in the womb. When
tragedy strikes and babies are unable to comprehend it, no amount of training
can prepare us. When that happens, my adrenaline takes over, but I usually
stick around for a while. When I am in trouble or at ease, I always consider
what I would do if I opened a clinic and had such patients; what would I do to
improve to prevent such things from happening?
The best part of being a midwife is when you have a normal labor, the mother and baby are healthy, there are no complications with the pregnancy, labor, postpartum, and at the time of the examination is trusted by the patient to overcome what happened.
