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		<title>tip for today</title>
		<link>http://expatmidwife.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/tip-for-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was covering a colleague&#8217;s antenatal clinic today and I got one of those &#8220;we&#8217;re pregnant&#8221; couples.  &#8220;We&#8221; are nearing the finish line and making plans for the birth.  FOB is older, european descent and a talker.  He&#8217;s also a nurse (I know because he told me three times) and an herb pusher (&#8220;you don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expatmidwife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7998005&amp;post=780&amp;subd=expatmidwife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>whiff test</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[32 weeker, complaining of PPROM.  shows up at hospital unannounced. tells staff she tried to call me.  (later tells me she didn&#8217;t call because she didn&#8217;t want to bother me &#8211; a noble notion perhaps, but just showing up and saying that you couldn&#8217;t reach me actually isn&#8217;t very helpful). states she has been leaking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expatmidwife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7998005&amp;post=773&amp;subd=expatmidwife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>tuis!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hang out with a lot of people who constantly have their cell phones on and answer them whenever they ring, no matter how rude that is.  Such is the real life of midwives.  Turns out most midwives like the &#8220;nostalgia&#8221; ring tone, which is by far one of the least annoying.  However having the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expatmidwife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7998005&amp;post=771&amp;subd=expatmidwife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ah nuts!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[recent conversations via text&#8230; 10:04pm, from Bella*: &#8220;free frm vodafone,-5.00dollar. fwd to 22 vodafone contacts and receive a free 5.00 dollars&#8221; Vodafone provides mobile phone service.  Most people here do not have contracts and just pay as you go and phone calls are expensive (89c/min).   I don&#8217;t mind that she sent me a group text, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expatmidwife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7998005&amp;post=768&amp;subd=expatmidwife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>grateful</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[grateful that i live in new zealand      and the opportunities we have here. grateful that i have a job.      lucky to have a job i love.           ecstatic to have the support that enables me to do this job i love. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ we have a charmed life, we are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expatmidwife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7998005&amp;post=759&amp;subd=expatmidwife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>postnatals home visits are&#8230; fun?</title>
		<link>http://expatmidwife.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/postnatals-home-visits-are-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[while waiting for mom and baby to come home from picking up the kids after school, dad entertained me with his heavy metal music (which &#8220;helps him fall asleep&#8221;) and a detailed tour of his bodily scars. hurry home please momma!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expatmidwife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7998005&amp;post=761&amp;subd=expatmidwife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the perfect curry</title>
		<link>http://expatmidwife.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/the-perfect-curry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[while sometimes i talk the talk about birth vibes (~~ ~ ~   ~~~~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~), i don&#8217;t always walk the walk. but for Lula* i did both.  as did she.  and it worked.  hooray! but that is not what this post is about.  because i just can&#8217;t talk about airy fairy stuff [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expatmidwife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7998005&amp;post=755&amp;subd=expatmidwife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surrender your booty!</title>
		<link>http://expatmidwife.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/surrender-your-booty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a colleague: Misunderstanding of the Week Doctor (with strong accent): That patient, is she private? Me: Sorry, what? Doctor: Is she private?  Private. Me: Pirate?  Is she a pirate? Awkward silence&#8230;. Doctor: Just give me her notes&#8230; For clarification, by private the (hospital-based) doctor means is the woman under the care of the hospital-based [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expatmidwife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7998005&amp;post=749&amp;subd=expatmidwife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>quick tip</title>
		<link>http://expatmidwife.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/quick-tip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i have a cold. overall i feel fine but i sound terrible.  my (midwifery) partner does not like my cold.  she mothered me into taking vitamin C for it.  yesterday i missed dinner and then it was just so late so i went to bed without eating.  but before bed i took my vitamin C. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expatmidwife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7998005&amp;post=740&amp;subd=expatmidwife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>desperate measures</title>
		<link>http://expatmidwife.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/desperate-measures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[you know you&#8217;ve been too long on your feet when you start fantasizing about wearing compression stockings &#8211; and i mean the really really intense kind, the kind that are so hard to put on it is akin to wrestling alligators.  damn what i wouldn&#8217;t give for a pair of those about now, and a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expatmidwife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7998005&amp;post=737&amp;subd=expatmidwife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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