Sharing my fabulous news as nobody I know is awake at 04:30!

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I am a third year student midwife in my last week of placement. To qualify I need to deliver 40 babies. With 3 shifts left I started this night shift needing 3 deliveries. I’ve only gone and got a hat trick and delivered my 40th baby!

I am absolutely over the moon and need to shout about it to anyone who will listen until a more civilised hour!

What a fabulous and privileged job I have ❤️

Congratulations!!! Wonderful news!

Ooh congrats OP! I had a fantastic student midwife with me for the birth of DS2. I often wonder how she's getting on and hope she stuck with it.

She was amazing and I wrote her and the qualified midwife who was with her a thank you letter because that birth was incredible compared to DS1s at a different hospital which was awful.

Well done OP!

Coming from the opposite point of view, when my daughter was born I had a very lovely male midwife who I had never met before - my "assigned" midwife was on holiday.

After she was safely delivered he told me that she was the first baby he had delivered with no supervision. I thanked him for not telling me that earlier :-)

@UpUpUpU congratulations 🎊 👩‍🎓

Congratulations OP! Wishing you a very happy career as a midwife 💐💐

Congratulations! Good luck on your new career👶

Brilliant news x

Thank you all so much! So many kind messages and beautiful stories.

i have just finished my last ever shift and I feel incredible!

to answer a couple of questions: If you don’t get your 40 births, you just have to continue to attend placement until you do! The NMC has changed its guidance in the last year to 30 births and 20 additional birth that you assist with (such as instrumental births) but it’s at the discretion of each university if they do that. The changes also mean you can count a deliver if the placenta is retained as long as you continue the care into the post natal period.

I remember my first birth as it was on my birthday. A beautiful baby girl. I also remember baby J who was a still birth. Born en caul and absolutely breathtakingly beautiful.

I have a big break now until October so I will be relaxing and spending time with my own son, whilst being so very proud of myself.

Thank you all again for making my special moment even better x

Congratulations on your achievement made all the better for loving what you do in this much needed profession or, more likely in your case - a vocation.

Well done, again

Congratulations - just awesome 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Congratulations! What an amazing career to have, well blummin done!

Congratulations OP! An amazing achievement. Onwards and upwards from here.

Congratulations 🍾

whoooooooooo. Brilliant. Now go on & deliver 400 more!

Congratulations op and thank you for what you do 🙏

Anita delivered my third baby at the Rosie 16 years ago- I will never forget her, what a fabulous woman!

OP, in years to come, it'll be your name popping up on threads like these - congratulations!

I love this! Congratulations!

Huge congratulations on your amazing achievement🥳 💐 you are now an integral part of 40 families stories and hopefully there will be more in the future❤️

Congratulations OP! that's wonderful. My daughter was the 40th delivery for our student midwife and I was buzzing for her! It felt really special. She was amazing during my labour and birth. I'm sure you were too.
Huge congratulations to you and I hope you've been celebrating your wonderful achievement. Good luck with your next steps!

Well done op, my dd1 was a student midwife's last delivery on her course and I'll always remember her and how she helped me 😁

Well done you!💖👏🏽

I’m so down today this has really cheered me. Congratulations. And thanks for being there to deliver our future generations!

Midwives are amazing. I would have been utterly lost without mine. Well done you!

👌 congratulations 🎊

Well done!