Barbara McLeod Montani 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹

This is my team and if you've been following my journey you'll already know how absolutely happy I am to be working here. We need midwives! Come and join me, it's the best job EVER. #RemoteAndRural #CommunityMidwife apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

Today is 6 months since I started work as a #NewlyQualifiedMidwife. To make this day extra special, I spoke to a mum today who remembers me looking after her in labour when she had her last baby. My heart is full. #RemoteAndRural #CommunityMidwife

@deepasanthosh I can't actually speak Spanish or French mind you - but I can understand both, Spanish more than French, because it's similar to Italian.

@BarbMcLeodM That's so much more! So versatile! I do want to learn Spanish...one day👍

#InternationalMotherLanguageDay Mine is #Tamil, so #Vanakkam as in #Hello I also speak #Hindi, #Telugu and can understand #Malayalam (a palindrome) Love the fact that I can flow between these languages and #English ( with a #British accent these days 😉)

@MhairiMcLellan @MidwivesRCM Well done you! 🎉🎉🎉

So thrilled to win the @MidwivesRCM Small Research Award in the early career midwife category!

Parentcraft sessions: when you use a teddy bear to demonstrate breastfeeding positions and you are taken completely seriously while doing so. #NewlyQualifiedMidwife #RemoteAndRural

@Auras_Journey Oh sweetheart. No, you do not need to think more positively. However when I felt that way it helped to remember that the reality inside my brain, which made me think it would be better for everyone if I wasn't around, was not the actual reality. It was my brain tricking me. Hugs.

Feeling depressed and suicidal. I've been told I need to 'think more positively'. Honestly, there's nothing worse than being told that when you feel you're burning yourself out just to keep alive!

@wannabe_midwife You will!

@BarbMcLeodM Oh wow!! I wouldn't have had the balls at 22 - hoping I'll have them at 34 🤣

I've travelled a fair amount on my own, but have never flown alone. Which will all change in the summer now I've booked long haul flights with connections. Go big or go home, I guess 😂🙈

Yes! I am 3 months in and it's been wild, but I am SO proud. Wouldn't change it for the world!

@sometimesserene @IslaBarton1 @GillMoncrieff @NHSHighland Same!

@IslaBarton1 @GillMoncrieff @NHSHighland Gill’s research will be so interesting to read. Unfortunately I only saw the link once the group was full but I can’t wait to read it

@GillMoncrieff @ScotlandRCM @all4maternity @MidwivesRCM @Fi_Gibb @JakiLambert @MercedesP_B Wow that was fast! I went to fill in the form but the group is full! You clearly hit the nail on the head with this one, relevant to so many of us!

We are researching retention in midwifery and would like to add to the staff stakeholder group. If you are a midwife and would like to contribute to the development of this research, please leave your details: bit.ly/RemainSH

@GillMoncrieff @ScotlandRCM @all4maternity @MidwivesRCM @Fi_Gibb @JakiLambert @MercedesP_B Sounds extremely relevant!

Sutherland sunset - a commute with a view. #NewlyQualifiedMidwife #RemoteAndRural

@CUBcass There is scope for working part time...

@BarbMcLeodM I hear ya! Would love an adventure in the North but need serious rest time between working! Enjoy your days off, bank that sleep !!

This is my team and if you've been following my journey you'll already know how absolutely happy I am to be working here. We need midwives! Come and join me, it's the best job EVER. #RemoteAndRural #CommunityMidwife apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

@chungopailot @Ceballos_Gene @RikkeMaimburg Clearly we are, because evidence-based guidelines state that for parous, healthy women home is the safest place to give birth. Your ignorance on the topic is not my problem. Take it up with @NICEComms who wrote the guidelines - or do they not know "real science" either?

@BarbMcLeodM @Ceballos_Gene @RikkeMaimburg Well my bad. You endorse homebirth, we shouldn't have started to discuss science. We are clearly on different levels my good lady, I apologize

Midwifery at its finest - new paper on abdominal palpation which may increase & support prenatal bonding. Important to ensure autonomy & respect during the examination. The examination provides women with sensory aspect not gained from ultrasound trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/4c…

@chungopailot @Ceballos_Gene @RikkeMaimburg I actually do "real science" and no, that paper is not a joke. It's worrying that you value your patients' wishes and experiences so little. Continuity is proven by actual science to reduce adverse perinatal outcomes. Seriously, stop being so angry at me, go chill.

@BarbMcLeodM @Ceballos_Gene @RikkeMaimburg Well lady, do real sci3nce and admit that paper is a joke. It's not difficult really

@chungopailot @Ceballos_Gene @RikkeMaimburg No, the relationship established through continuity of carer, which includes, but is not limited to, abdominal examination. Which also happens to be what women want, but sounds like you don't care about that. Stop insulting me and get on with your own life. Also, not a dude.

@BarbMcLeodM @Ceballos_Gene @RikkeMaimburg Lol the relationship stablished by abdominal palpation (evidence in ten cases) Dude the article is bullsh*t just admit it and go on. Do real science and stop being ridiculous

@chungopailot @Ceballos_Gene @RikkeMaimburg Our job is both and if you actually looked up the definition you would know it. But again, why are you angry? And who says we are losing credibility? Scientific evidence (yes, SCIENTIFIC) says that the relationship with the midwife reduces adverse perinatal outcomes 🤷🏻

@BarbMcLeodM @Ceballos_Gene @RikkeMaimburg Your job is to follow scientific evidence and not that mumbo jumbo about how touching a pregnant woman's tummy reinforce some kind of spiritual link. And you wonder why you are loosing credibility

@chungopailot @Ceballos_Gene @RikkeMaimburg Why are you mad at me like I wrote the article? Also - and brace yourself - midwives' relationships with birthing people and babies ARE our freaking job. By definition. If you don't know what a midwife is, just say that. Sounds like this isn't your business so why care?

@BarbMcLeodM @Ceballos_Gene @RikkeMaimburg There is qualitative research and tgere is your egomania trying to justify scientifically your role as midwife as the main character in birth. Who the f*ck cares about your relationship with the woman/kid. Just do your freak1ng job

@chungopailot @Ceballos_Gene @RikkeMaimburg Now where did I say that exactly? Also - yes, your opinion is completely irrelevant because clearly you do not understand qualitative research. So go and mind the business that pays you and let us be stupid in peace. Run along now.

@BarbMcLeodM @Ceballos_Gene @RikkeMaimburg You think that stup1d article is "midwifery at its finest", my opinion is irrelevant