I personally would rather do nursing first then do the midwifery course - firstly, because that is the only way to do it here in qld as there is no BMid yet, but also because it gives me a wider range of career options and the option to go into child health or paediatric nursing if I want, the option to work in community health, just more options in general. And because there are many areas where I believe nursing and midwifery would overlap, particularly in the medical side of things but also in the nurturing side of things. That is why if you have a nursing degree the midwifery course is only 1 year - because you have covered most of it already in your nursing course.