by Roxanne May | 29 May 2021 | Midwifery
Traditional Chinese medicine [TCM] has been practiced across wider China for thousands of years, with first records dating back over two millennia (China Education Centre, 2019). TCM encompasses various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, exercise, massage and...
by Roxanne May | 16 Sep 2019 | Midwifery
THE DEAD ARE GIVEN MORE BODILY AUTONOMY AND RESPECT THAN A BIRTHING PERSON. Yep, you didn’t misread – a dead person has more autonomy over what happens to their body than that of a LIVE birthing person. Does this statement shock you? Because it should. A recent...
by Roxanne May | 1 Aug 2019 | Midwifery
Did you know that the average rate of midwife retention in the hospital system is 5 years? A MEASLY FIVE FREAKING YEARS! A Bachelor of Midwifery at a MINIMUM is 3 years of full-time study and direct entry midwives only make up roughly 10% of the Australian workforce....
by Roxanne May | 30 Jul 2019 | Midwifery
Oh hey there – welcome to my blog! My name is Roxanne but my friends call me Rox. I thought as my first blog post, it would be cool to tell you my story of becoming a midwife. It might interest you to know that Midwifery was actually not my first career choice....
