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Heidi Stone

Newly qualified midwife, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Juggling and prioritising

The past year has flown by and I am proud to say that I have survived my time as a preceptee midwife!

Taking time for self-care

One thing that I have found particularly challenging over the past couple of months of working as a preceptee midwife is the number of postnatal women, or women in the early stages of labour, whom the...

Taking the first steps in practice

This month's blog focuses on my transition from student to midwife—and I'm not afraid to say that I was apprehensive, to say the least, in starting as a newly qualified midwife

Supporting families coping with NAIT

When my daughter was born, she was diagnosed with a rare genetic blood disorder, neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT)—the effect of which was the catalyst for me to become a midwife Although...

Lessons from a placement in Peru

In February this year, I had the privilege of spending my final transition period as a third-year student midwife on a 3-week voluntary observational placement in a 104-year-old government-run...

Journey to midwifery

First things first, I'd better introduce myself I'm Heidi, a newly qualified midwife, and I was completely shocked but flattered even to be nominated for the British Journal of Midwifery Student...

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