Baby world

So my first week of maternity placement is over and I have absolutely loved it! Pregnant ladies and newborn babies everywhere. I have learned a lot over the last few days. There is so much I didn't know about before starting this placement. The thought of getting pregnant scares me a lot more now than before, but I also want to steal all the cute wee babies and bring them all home with me. Mixed feelings much. Next week I have a few shifts on the labour ward and I am really looking forward to seeing a birth and maybe also a Caesarean section if I am lucky! I'll keep yous updated on my progress. Now it's time to clean Connor's room (if I can be bothered) 

Placement 4

I'm just back in Stirling after a long weekend in Musselburgh. It was weird taking the half past seven train back again. When I stepped of the train I almost went on and got the bus to Uni. Time has passed so quickly since our first placement that I sometimes forget that I live in Bayne Street now and not in AKD. I am glad Bayne Street is more quiet than AKD, because placement was hell when I was forced to listen to the rest of the block party all night and go to bed when I was getting up. The life in Murray Hall was tiring as well. It was quiet but it did not feel like home and I really found it hard to sleep there. All I wanted to do was to be in Edinburgh with Connor. All my friends had moved into their flats then in the center of town and I felt a bit lonely up at campus. My 3rd placement wasn't all that great either, so that might have contributed to it. Whenever I go on placement I turn into a zombie that hates humans that are privileged enough to do things like sleep or eat proper food. 3 weeks dealing with women in labour and newborn babies can't possibly change that. I wish I got the enthusiasm from my first placement back. This time all I want is to get it over and done with. Hopefully I'll be filled with energy and all that tomorrow morning at 6:30! I am happy to get a maternity placement, but I wish it came with a bed and not much work at all. Oh well, I knew what I signed up for so here it goes. I'll try and post a wee blogpost tomorrow after placement and let yous know how things went. I'm writing this from under my covers and I am about to fall asleep. Right now I need to go to bed!

Im so smart. s-m-r-t

On Tuesday we had yet another dreaded exam on our hands. I had revised a lot, but I still felt very lost. When I got to uni I had stayed up all night reading over my notes and drinking energy drinks that only made my stomach hurt. I sat next to Lorraine who was really hyper. I honestly wanted to give her a good slap across the face. She didn't make it any better once she told me that the eye was one of the topics for the exam. Guess who had no idea? Yeah that would be me. Luckily I had revised the other topics in great detail so I still passed the exam! (and Lorraine left the building slap-free) Oh happy days! Like Stirling uni's student nurses' tradition the exam was followed by a night out in Dusk. The day was also filled with other good news. I found out I passed my semester 3 essay. Unfortunately I did not get the grade I hoped for, but a pass is a pass :)

Next week we start our placements again. I am really looking forward to going back out there. Lectures is really boring and I honestly feel like I learn a lot more by being on placement. However, I've still not been able to get in contact with them, so I'll just show up on Monday morning and hope for the best. I am with the Rose maternity team, which is a community midwife team. I am really looking forward to that as becoming a midwife is my dream.
Apart from uni life has been very stressful the last few weeks, and with a lot on my mind the blog ends up being last on my list of priorities. Sorry for that, but family and education comes first ;)

Over and out

Lets go to the beach

I have an exam on Tuesday and of course that means that it's time for me to update my blog in a desperate attempt to avoid revising. Not that I'm not revising. I've been sitting since Monday with my head buried in notes and all I've wanted to do was to run away from it all and never look back. Who cares about becoming a nurse anyway? Unfortunately I do. So I have to spend a lot more time revising the whole of semester 4 to pass this damn exam. Great times. My next placement is a split one. I'm going for 3 weeks in a maternity unit then 6 weeks with district nurses. I am so happy I got maternity!
To make it seem like I live an interesting sporty and healthy life I'll post some pictures of when I went for a walk along Musselburgh beach the other day. Image is everything. Can you imagine if I didn't inform all types of social media of my active lifestyle? What a waste of a walk that would have been :P