When I first ventured into 'Talk' after reading all the MN product review sections, one name kept popping up, particularly wrt anything to do with pregnancy health questions. It was 'mears.' I immediately could see this was one woman who knew what she was talking about.
I knew that one day I'd have my questions on pg / childbirth etc. and that she'd be the poster who would help me out.
Sure enough, 7 months later, I was posting on DW's hypertension at 31 weeks... and mears was there to offer concrete comments and advice. (as well as a load of other lovely MNers).
I'd also noticed that there wasn't too much 'personal' info on mears that I'd picked up just reading chatty threads...that was one of the reasons I was a bit nosey, and asked where she worked, and what exactly she did etc. etc.
She's a fab source of advice on here. IMHO she should be paid. Without authoritative, qualified, up to date advice MANY pg MNers or MNers with young babies would not be getting such clear guidance. I for one really appreciate her presence. It adds VALUE to MN. For sure.
And now to you, mears: I can understand the desire to do different things, and focus on RL, and get out and about a bit more, have some fun etc. It's so obvious that midwifery is your calling you do it morning, noon and night. Out in the real world and on the virtual world that is MN too. I won't actually suggest you stay on MN, it's perhaps 'more of the same', but maybe ration your time, and if you miss a few topics which you could have answered, someone else will hopefully have some useful comments !
You can't have a caseload of 2,000 ! (Which might be number of MNers pg at any time). It'll burn you out and you won't finish your research module !!! They say balance in everything, and I wish you good luck finding it !
Thank you for your help on my thread.
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