lcrossan, Author at The Midwife/Nurse Hobbyfarmer

A Community Midwifery Service QLD 1997 – 1999

An accurate quote ❤️

Midwifery is both joyful and painful. We see the best and worst day of people’s lives in our everyday experience. We are incredibly lucky to be part of women’s lives when things are bright and jubilant, but also when they are darkest and most difficult. It allows us to see the light and shade of life in its sharpest exposure
Alexandra Ryan

Another Day At The Office

EMERGENCY 🤕🤒

Hi to smiley RN at the fish- bowl command centre then head off into the mix of unwell humanity

What’ll the day bring? Slight nerves give an edge working in a place like this, keeps her on her toes.

People everywhere, organised chaos.

Police, bodies slumped on trolleys, paramedics queue with their unwell human cargo, “not too bad today” says one. A baby wails in the background. A young beetroot faced lass is “finding it hard to breathe.”

A Shift On Maternity ward, Australia 2022

It’s a morning shift, the ward is a long, large L-shape with six bays (four beds in each) seven single rooms and two soundproofed bereavement rooms.

Looking in from the entrance it’s a hive of activity. Cleaners mop, wardies push beds, partners look for loved ones, midwives wheel babies in cots, trolleys jostle for space … blood collectors, meal delivery, laundry and obstetricians with their piles of precariously teetering charts.

Voluminous blue curtains surround each bed giving privacy but it’s noisy with the chorus of call bells, IV pumps, women in early labour, babies crying, private conversations, staff chit-chatting.

Chicken Owning FYI

Owning a few chickens, how hard can it be?

Give em seed, leftover greens, fresh water, shelter, plenty room to do their thing, sit back, enjoy.

The First Calf

Barry our original cow dad was delivered from up north. Arriving home we could see a young bloke sitting on the curb, beside him on a lead nibbling the nature strip was cute teenage Baz.

He sauntered into the paddock, sniffed his new mate Sally then made a beeline for the expensive bale of lucerne in the corner, no fence jumping or running off this time, we were learning.

But this compliant beginning didn’t last.

Emigrating to Oz

A young couple, Nurse/Midwife and Marine Ecologist, leave cold, rainy Scotland for the sunny climes of QLD Australia.

He likes adventure, change, excitement, she prefers calm, order, peace and quiet.

Their bond, an overdeveloped care factor for all living things

One small block of land and many animals later, how does it all work out? What could possibly go wrong?

Read on and see!