Six months in…
(May 2016) I have sat down to write this at least 3 times now and each time deleted every last word. Like Goldilocks trying out the three bears armchairs I ended up with too hard, too soft or broken. It seemed important today however that I make some sense of my thoughts so today I am doing that most valuable of writing traditions… typing until something takes form and makes sense, I hope you’ll bear with me. Let me start by saying just how much I love this profession. Today is International Day of the Midwife and my Facebook and Twitter feed are filled to overflowing with evidence of the passion that midwifery inspires not only in midwives ourselves, but in the families we touch. I work in an obstetric unit and I am going to go out on a limb and say I am proud to do so. I soaked up ROAR and see so many opportunities to provide women centred care, kindness and compassion in the hospital environment, helped along with a generous dollop of newly acquired assertiveness it has...