Leah Goodspeed
- University of Southampton 2022
- Midwifery, Ghana Takoradi
"The staff in general were relaxed in their approach to most things. Even if there was an emergency, you would see staff walking over in no particular rush."
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"The staff in general were relaxed in their approach to most things. Even if there was an emergency, you would see staff walking over in no particular rush."
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"The baby started coming down and as it did, the local midwife started to pull the baby out - something we would never do at home during a normal birth."
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"I had no idea that by spending two weeks in a Ghanaian hospital how much my confidence would grow in relation to midwifery, and me as a person too."
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"Each morning on the postnatal ward the midwives would collect all of the babies and take them into the washroom to bathe them, they would have easily washed 30-40 babies".
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"I hope I can use what I learnt in Ghana to help me be a better midwife in New Zealand."
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