Hi!
I am 32 this year, 2 kids with plans to have 1 more and have just started a business.
I’ve had 2 options for a career, event planner or midwife. I’m leaning more towards becoming a midwife. What are my options? Can I go straight to midwife or do I need to study nursing then midwife? I am living in Brisbane. Has anyone started in their 30s?
I wish I had done this when I was 21 but I was too busy having fun 🤦🏽♀️. Better late than never I guess???
Mature aged - Studying to become a Midwife
Mature aged - Studying to become a Midwife
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My sister had her first child at 15 then had a few more before she was 21. Then at 30 she decided to study nursing, became a nurse then decided to become a midwife and finished that by 40! You can do it at any age as long as you have that caring instinct and I honestly think nursing is one of those careers that needs a bit of maturity behind it. It's amazing how many young ones pull out of it because it's so overwhelming. Good luck to you and yes you have to do nursing first before midwifery.
Just wanted to let you know that I had my daughter last year and the midwife who delivered her was 60 and it was her first surgical delivery :D she had only just become a midwife after nursing for 10 years!
So don’t give up and age is actually on your side! When I had my first we were told to ignore the younger midwives as they had no real life experience and only knew things from text books so didn’t have the same compassion. Sure enough, all the older ones were 100000 times better than the youngsters :)
I have a few friends that have studied midwifery in their 30s after kids, I don't think age is a barrier. I had run-ins with very young midwives while in hospital post birth, neither of them seemed to have the compassion required to support new mums. I think if someone can have empathy or experience in someone's situation it helps a lot.
I've always heard to do nursing, then post grad midwifery because of the extra skills it gives you, it makes you more employable.
Yes better now than never. You'll be graduated and working in your career in your 30s. Lots of people of all ages study, go for it.