A Student Midwife's Journal
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That moment when your assigned reading includes a law you advocated for. 🤯 This week’s lesson in Health Equity & Social Oppressions looked at poverty and socioeconomic disparities and how those forces shape fertility, pregnancy, and perinatal outcomes. As I am reading through the required materials, there it was – the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act…
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One of the first questions asked when I share that I am in midwifery school is what pathway did I chose and why. Now, for those who live, eat, breath maternal health, or health care in general, this is an obvious question, but I think for a lot of folks, this is not even a…
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Friday night woodfired pizza and…studying. That’s what my weekends look like these days. Most of my free time (and for the foreseeable future) is spent with my head in textbooks. Shout out to my family for rolling with this season. I was in the middle of everything, laptop open, working through lessons while my husband…