Hi All
I haven't posted for a while but just wanted to say to StudyingMumma - congratulations! I'm so pleased for you. I really felt for you when you got the bad news that you hadn't got a place and now it's all worked well anyway!
I've been having a terribly stressful time the last few weeks. I was accepted into the BMid external UniSA course and have spent the last few weeks trying to work out if it is going to be possible for me to do it. I withdrew from the local nursing course because I'm pregnant and they said that I couldn't defer for 12 months for the baby. I've spent the last few weeks talking to all the local hospitals in Tasmania and then talking to heaps of different staff at UniSA trying to see if I will get placements locally and whether I'll be able to complete the follow throughs in Tas. Because of little kids I can't come to Adelaide for placements. It's been a nightmare - heaps of waiting for hospitals to get back to me, getting my hopes up, then getting more bad news. It's been so hard trying to work out what to do. Today I had a bit of good news though - one of the local private hospitals will let me do my first placement there! But of course there're no guarantees that I'll be able to get further placements in Hobart or be able to do my follow throughs here. I think I've found out everything I possibly can now. So now I've just got to decide. Everytime I got bad news I tried to think "oh well, it's for the best, it would have been a lot of work and too expensive/difficult anyway" etc etc but finally now a little bit of good news and I just have to make a decision. So stressful. In my heart I'm so passionate about becoming a midwife that I think I would really regret not doing it even if there are still so many doubts about whether it will come off. Tasmania appears to be pretty backward in this area and I would be the first BMid student here ever. The course starts in a week and I would still need to book flights for the two workshops, organise childcare while I'm away, do the senior first aid certificate, get the police check done etc etc all the while with a large expanding belly and a 2.5 year old to worry about!! Sigh. I think I'll probably just decide to give it a go and try and make it work - everyone at the uni has been so supportive, friendly and flexible.
I hope everyone else about to start studying is enjoying getting ready for the new year. Good luck.
Nina