Thanks ladies.

Feeb I am both a RN and RM. In NSW which is where I live you don't have to be a RM only RN. A friend who did it recently said she was only 1 of 4 midwives in her group of 40 so I would imagine I'd be at a slight advantage with the newborns and BF anyway although thats obviously only a small portion of what the job would entail.

The course I'm looking at applying for is a Graduate certificate in child and family health nursing (I am going to apply regardless of if I'm the successful applicant) is just over $6000. Its parttime over 12months. There are a few scholarships going but some are only for $1000 so not much and as I am 550kms from the university I'd have 4 trips to Sydney and the accommodation costs/travel plus the time away from the family and my DH is not supportive of me applying. There are 10days face to face lecturing over 12months and then a placement at tresillian which isn't compulsory plus other clinical hours which would be paid work if I got the job, if not and I choice to do it anyway it would be unpaid. Its my ideal job with the family as I could work 9-5 but the problem is we never wanted to put our youngest into childcare which I would have to do something DH is very unhappy about. The problem is there is a very good chance if I don't apply then this opportunity wont come up again. The community centres (which is a smaller rural centre) last CFHN was there almost 20years so if they fill this position with a long termer then I wont have this opportunity again. The manager called me asking for me to apply so although the job isn't a guarantee I am hopefully I would be in with a good chance of gaining employment seeing as she seeked me out and told me how hard it is to get locals. I'd love to wait another year but its going now and I don't want to risk not having the opportunity again.