Some Marvellous Accessories!

When we first started on our course we were given a great freebie!! "A pocket guide to vaginal examination." As we are going to be visiting midwives and those learning midwifery in Nepal we thought what a great tool to give them. We wrote to SMA as they provide the guides and we received 9 of them today! Thank you so much SMA for your very much loved VE guide!

Practise makes perfect

Thank you so much to the Practising Midwife for donating 6 journals to give to the Midwifery Society of Nepal. The Practising Midwife is the best selling midwifery journal, actively read by many of us Surrey student midwives!!, and we cannot thank them enough, especially Laura Yeates for organising the donations and delivery. Thank you Thank you Thank you!!

ouch!!

We both knew we would need some immunizations and advice for our trip, so we booked into see our local GP surgery. We were glad we did because some immunizations need to be done over a course of a month....so if you are planning on going somewhere exotic....go early!

Well we feel like pin cushions now lol. Thank goodness for Wellbeing of Women and Iolanthe Midwifery Trust because they weren't cheap either! £150 for our rabies injections and £50 for our meningitis. Luckily as well our hepatitis A; typhoid; diphtheria; tetanus; poliomyelitis; hepatitis B were all free on the NHS! We have both had conflicting advice on which Malaria tablets to take, but fit for travel recommend Chloroquine together with proguanil. These can be bought at any pharmacy or boots/superdrug.

The rabies injection although expensive, seemed a very good idea. It means if we did get bitten or licked by a rabid monkey/dog we would only need to get two more injections instead of 5. And with monkey temple being one of our definite must see, thought better safe than sorry.

Kathmandu is not a malaria hotspot, but as we are going to Chitwan for a short visit, it has been recommended to take the tablets.

Cannot believe our trip is only 56 sleeps away.....but whose counting lol

Might as well jump. Jump !

So while thinking of ways to raise money to donate to the birth centre we are visiting we thought of walking a few miles, washing a few cars, making a few cakes......all a bit boring. So we came up with the idea that makes both our mums go weak at the knees. SKYDIVE!

We will be jumping out of a plane on August 7th with a few crazy student midwives and will be purchasing a video for you all to watch and laugh at later, well as long as we don't break anything anyway lol.

Here is a link to where we are jumping so you can watch a video of what we are letting ourselves in for.

The Jump is £165/each so we hope to raise about £400/each so we can give a good size donation to the birth centre. Please donate what you can, any amount is great.

Donations can be made to our paypal account at moodripdrip@hotmail.com or contact us directly for further information.

Thanks

Laura and Sam!!

WOW!!

Thank you soooooo much to the Wellbeing of Women for chosing both Sam and I to win the student elective bursary

We are both very proud and excited. Those expensive immunisations are now reachable! We also made a promise that if we did win we would fundraise for the birth centre we are visiting by jumping out of a plane!! Yes our mums are not best pleased, but it will be such a great way to start our journey to Nepal, kind of like "Im a student get me out of here!"

Will keep you posted on how to sponsor us!

Thanks again so much to the wellbeing of women for making our trip to Nepal a reality!

Sam and Laura xx

Leaving on a Jet Plane!!

We have booked our flights....its definitely happening now! We are flying August 30th arriving in Nepal via Delhi on the 31st of August and we return to London on the 27th of September. Now all we need to do is figure out how we are going to fit all our donations and clothes into just one suitcase each. This is no easy task for two ladies! Looks like only two pairs of shoes lol.

We would like to thank Peter Harris at STA who helped us to book our flights. Definitely recommend using STA as they have friendly staff who will find you the best deal and with a student card you can save a lot of money! Peter finished at 500pm but stayed on until after 6pm to help us book our flights.

Thanks Pete!

Amazing!!!

Well I can officially get excited publicly now! I was notified two weeks ago now that I won the Iolanthe Midwifery Award. The award is for £1000, so I will be splitting it with Sam, so we can book our flights this week now! I cannot thank the Iolanthe Midwifery Trust enough for this amazing help towards our journey to Nepal.
But Thank you sooooooooo much!!!

Laura Bridle is fundraising for White Ribbon Alliance - JustGiving

Laura Bridle is fundraising for White Ribbon Alliance - JustGiving


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From one mum to another

We would like to thank Becky Chevis and her beautiful girls for donating some wonderful and very pretty clothes to take with us to Nepal. Becky donated sleepers, dresses, shoes and hats. We are going to have some very trendy babies in Kathmandu now!

Thank you so much

xxx

Thank you Huntleigh

We are so excited to be going to Nepal. We are going to book our flights next month and are already thinking of all the amazing thing s we will get to see and do. We received an email from Amanda Rohman, who is the sales supervisor at Huntleigh, replying that they could in fact donate a fetal Doppler. We both cannot get over the generosity we have seen from people wanting to help the birth centre.

We both use this product in our placements and are thrilled to be sharing this technology with the women and families accessing the birth centre in Nepal.

Thank you so much Huntleigh!!

Learning some Nepali

So we have been practising our Nepali and thought we would share some of our phrases!!

Hello/Goodbye: Namaste
Thank you: Dhanyabad
how are you? Tapalai kasto chha?
Excuse me: Yo,dai
Do you speak English? Tapai angreji bhasa bolnuhuncha?
Help! Guhar!!! ......which hopefully we won't need lol.

MIDIRS

MIDIRS has saved us countless times when it comes to essay writing, reflections or the dreaded OSCA's, so we were very pleased to have a positive response back when requesting donations.

We would like to thank Natalie Byard at MIDIRS for her quick response and brilliant donation of 4 publications, 4 pinnards and over 15 MIDIRS pens. And we all know pens are gold to midwives and nurses!!

We are really looking forward to giving these items to the midwives and women in Nepal. Especially the journals as they will help a great deal to keep the staff and women accessing the centre up to date with current research and an awareness of what is happening in midiwfery in Britain.

Thank you very much MIDIRS!!!