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...but some men (few, admitted) are midwifes? No? And plenty male ob/gyn doc's?

Have fun now!

yep, and a lot of them illustrate fords' point exactly!

the things i would have like to shove up the backside of the dr who was on duty when Josh was born id swear he thought he was stuffing a chicken!

ah yes, male midwives...I've known a couple and...well to honest they were the kind of flaming great poufs who make me look completely straight and I once stated, in response to someone saying they liked being laid back, that "I too like being laid back...with my legs in the air!"

I worked out today that I'm 'earning' about the same money now I'm not working, than I was actually bring home (after travel, tax etc) when I was in my last job.

Mind you, I'd swap the reasons for having that much cash for having to work any day.

If fords becomes a midwife, does that make me a midhusband?

If its roughly tranferrable as a halfwith then yes....

Sorry for the late posting, but "Go for it Fords!" In my experience (3 children, but my wife had them all) the midwives were way better than the doctors.

Manyo f them go to be health visitors and they are, to me, the commandos of the nursing profession. They go places on their own where police only go in small groups.

It's funny how a doctor, on £100k a year and supposedly knowledgeable, is supersonically fast to tell you to go and see the midwife when you have any pregnancy niggles

This may be out of date now, but back when I harboured notions of becoming a , the full title of the degree I was going to study was "Bachelor of Medicine and Midwifery"...

So when you qualified as a doctor, you were also qualified as a midwife.

RF

Bizarre!

Mind you I could see you as a midwife, you being such a perv and all that

Is that when they also pratised in a mud hut with sharpened rocks RF?

Docs are far to quick to send you to the midwife, then the midwife sends you back to the doctors... it can be very frustrating..

Fortunately for the medical profession and the british general public, I failed to get the necessary A level grades to pursue ing.

Think yourselves lucky!

RF

I do

Update!

As some of you will know, I'm studying Human Biology through the OU as my Standard Grade isn't quite enough to get into the course, although as I'm over 21 *ahem* I may well get in on merit. However, I didn't want to take the chance so am sticking with me course. I've passed my first TMA too!

I double checked today with the people you apply to if I can apply now and maybe get a conditional place and they said yes. So I now have a monster application form to send off which will keep me busy for the next hour or so...

I'd better get on with my househusbandly chores then!

Well done on passing your first TMA! That was a very nail-biting time for me, although as I'm approaching my first TMA for the new course I'm still biting my nails...

Good luck with the form.

Househusbandly chore list:

1. Tell her indoors you will be taking the rubbish out, shortly.
2. Go and see if you can find that tin of lager you are sure fell into the chiller behind the lettuce.
3 Give child something fascinating to do... like Sudoku.
4 Give child some help
5 Send child into other room so that you can help them better with the Sudoku
6, Look in vegetable rack for missing lager. Replace mushy smelly veggies in exactly the same place so no-one knows you've been there.
7, Tell her indoors you will take the compost out, shortly.
8, Take child to watch educational stuff on telly. Find darts final is on in only two hours so watch the broadcasters inform you of the darts players hobbies and gross weight.
9, Gently tell child to be quiet and learn something.
10 Take child back to Sudoku room and leave with biro and beaker of slightly fizzing juice you found behind sofa.
11 Tell her indoors you will take out rubbish bin from living room, shortly.
12 Look for tin of lager in DVD collection.
13 Have a rest while you do mental search for tin of lager.
14 Wake up and desperately search for remote control.
15 See how child has got on with Sudoku. Find Sudoku and biro both missing. Add to list of things to find and jobs to do.