Sample TextFrom a young age of seven, Josephine was hospitalized due to malaria, she started pondering on being a nurse because of the way nurses treated her with passion and kindness. The soft talking when going to inject her could make her not feel the pain of injection. From that time it becomes a song of the day she wanted to be that kind of a person who will care for the needy. At the age of sixteen gave her a love for being with women during labour and birth and caring for mothers and their babies. She wanted to be a midwife who would bring midwifery care to people, who would not necessarily seek it out, including socially disadvantaged populations. As a feminist, I intentionally chose a path into my life’s work that would give me independence as well as collaboration, historical backing as well as future potential, and one that would embody revolutionary principles in my lifetime, including models of teaching fellow midwives, expanding scope of practice, and working in care models as experts in certain types of care for women, and midwifery had it all.

I am fortunate to have had, and continue to have, incredible midwife mentors, who encouraged my interest and participation in leadership in midwifery for the many years I have worked. I do my best to represent the voices of those midwives who I feel I was elected to represent. These are senior midwives, junior midwives, and student midwives seeking an organization diverse in all of its regards. I am proud to be part of an organization that welcomes the intensity of my voice and of those whose voices I seek to elevate through serving in my role.

A midwife is responsible for providing care to women and baby during the antenatal, intranatal and postnatal periods time to time. Midwives provide high quality, culturally sensitive care during labor. They conduct a clean, safe delivery; give care to the newborn, and manage / refers emergencies effectively to prevent maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity. Manage complications in pregnancy and childbirth, in accordance with the principles of basic emergency obstetric care. Counsel and educate women, the family and the community, in relevant areas of health and provide a programme of parenthood preparation and a complete preparation for childbirth including advice on hygiene and nutrition. Gives support and advice on the daily care of the baby, including breastfeeding, bathing and making up feeds.  

Provides all non-surgical methods of family planning, and counselling for surgical methods. Establishes midwifery and or health policies, procedures and objectives; continuous quality improvement initiatives; safety, environmental, and infection prevention standards. “A practicing midwife is responsible for providing midwifery care in accordance with such standards as the Council may specify. A midwife is also an educator just to mention a few.

Being a midwife is an inspiring and extremely fulfilling role that requires a number of qualities including confidence, compassion and trust. Every day is different, bringing with it assorted experiences and challenges, and I have the skills to respond to all of these appropriately and competently which gives me strength to fulfill my duties.

The most challenging aspect of being a midwife is to have poor outcome, when you have been monitoring a woman in labour and all of a sudden she gets a non-reassuring CTG .It is very challenging to narrate the story to the family .It is very rewarding when the story is vice vasa. As a midwife you feel very happy to monitor labour and all goes well. Telling the family that they have a bouncing baby and the mother is in good condition is very rewarding.

My personality helps me to cope up with stress.  I have always taken it for granted that, to work in stress does not solve problems. I have been supported and valued by my supervisors, this has helped me to deal with emotional stress. When I was a junior midwife, I was lucky to have experienced midwife supervisors who served as  supportive framework for other midwives to prevent burn out. And stress reduction to increasing resilience. The lessons learn from them gave me endurances to resist stress