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Why See a Student Midwife?

As I come into the final two weeks of my official training as a midwife, I’m having a lot of feelings, and reflecting a lot on my time as a student midwife. It’s a difficult place to be, as our … Continue reading

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Lets Talk About Birth Control: A Comprehensive (and humorous) Overview of Everything You Need to Know!

If you’re a straight woman in America, there’s a 98% chance you’ve used one form of birth control or another. There are about a million (ok, not a million, there about 9 major different) options when it comes to birth … Continue reading

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Lost in Translation

I work in a setting where a vast majority of my patients speak English. I also happen to speak English. It works out for the most part. Sometimes however, my patients do not speak English, and because I was schooled … Continue reading

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Clinic Vingettes

Almost all OB visits today, almost all women around 30 weeks. A woman with a daughter named Blessing A woman with a crying toddler soothed by a lollipop I supplied and she sucked away while I talked to her mom … Continue reading

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