Hello family and friends,
We're very excited to be writing our first blog entry!! Our goal with this post is to welcome you, our lovely readers, and to give you some information about where we will be working and playing during our placement. Here is a rough outline of what we will be up to:
Lauren, Matthew, and I arrive in Kathmandu May 1st, 2010. Lauren and I will be spending our first week working in Kathmandu at the Aadharbhut Prasuti Sewa Kendra Basic Maternity Service Centre.
APS Kendra is a freestanding birth centre founded and run by nurse midwives who are dedicated to providing quality, inexpensive, empowering and sustainable woman-friendly maternity care. Here we will be providing prenatal care as well as attending any births that happen during the week. We will be working with nurse-midwife and APS Kendra founder Laxmi Tamang, who thankfully speaks English (she has her Masters in Public Health from the University of New South Wales in Australia) and will be able to help us with our first week of learning Nepali! You can check out more about the birth centre at: http://www.apskendra.org.np/.
Our second clinical placement will be in Bharatpur, a large city southwest of Kathmandu, in the Chitwan Region. Here we will be spending four weeks at the Bharatpur Hospital, a teaching hospital and the second busiest maternity hospital in Nepal (about 30 births a day). We will be on a call schedule with other medical and nurse-midwife students and rotate attending births. We're not sure of any details yet, but are sure it will all work out once we arrive!
Our last placement will be back in Kathmandu at the Kathmandu Model Hospital under the guidance of one of the executive members of the Nepal Midwifery Society. At this time we are expecting this placement to be purely observational, although Lauren and I are hoping this will change once we arrive and meet with our supervisor. We will keep you posted. To learn more about KMH visit: http://www.kmh-nepal.de/.
So that is a brief outline of our 6 weeks - thank you for reading. Lauren and I will be writing more posts in the near future, so come back soon!
Namaste,
Yarrow
Nepal Map
Clinical placement sites: Kathmandu and Bharatpur
Congratulations you two! i am so thrilled to hear your trip is happening... and excited to read along - safe travels and happy baby catching!
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Thank you Yarrow and Lauren for setting up your blog so we can virtually travel with you on your adventures. The world is a better place with midwife students like you working so hard. xoxoMichele
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like it will be an unforgettable experience. Enjoy your travels, and your learning.
ReplyDeleteWow I'm so excited for you! I just heard a few days ago that you guys were heading over to Nepal. I'm so happy that it all worked out! Thanks for the blog and we look forward to hearing about all your adventures.
ReplyDeleteLove Anina, Jordan, and Nova :)
hello, i hope that you could answer me even if you made this blog three years ago.
ReplyDeletefirst of all your blog is absolutely wonderfull and thank you for sharing all you lived there with us !
i am sorry for my english but i am a french student in midwifery.
with some other students, we are interested in going to Nepal to do our placement next year. We want to know how you organized all your trip ? what contact did you have ? it's difficult to begin our project without any contact ... Thank you !
Laurine, I'd be really happy to talk with you about this and suggest some contacts. Please let me know how best to reach you, and we'll be in touch.
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waouh ! i didn't expected an answer so quickly thank you !
Deleteyou can contact me by e-mail at laurineg@wanadoo.fr