Marianne Benoît, midwife in the delivery room at the hospital for ten years is also national advisor within the Order of Midwives.
“If the job is very difficult nervously, it is above all very rich,” says the midwife. We do not exercise this profession to enhance our private life! ” With guards at 12:30, day or night, even on weekends, finding a nanny is indeed not an easy task… Strokes of fatigue? “It’s a work habit to take. And we have a lot of time to recover between each call. ”
Its engine: passion for the profession. “You never do the same thing twice since the patients are always different. The psychological side is as important as the technique: with each woman, we forge very strong relationships. “
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“Between the lack of personnel and the need for maternity hospitals to make a profit in order to survive, the guards are dense” considers Marianne Benoît. Especially with the birth rate boom, there are 120 additional births compared to 000. “From one custody to another, we can have 2004 deliveries like two or three. The easiest can last 15 minutes, others occupy three midwives in a row. Often we don’t even have time to take a break to grab something to eat. ”
Another stressor: the unexpected. “This is what stimulates. Everything could go very well and then change from one moment to the next. ” Added to this are the difficulties with families: “by all possible outcomes, they seek to become embedded in the work room. But we can only accept one person! In their defense, we have too little time to devote to them to inform them of the progress of the birth. ”
Administrative tasks also add to the workload of midwives. “For a childbirth, there are 20 minutes of paperwork behind. For example, between the computer files and the health book, you have to write eight times the baby’s birth weight! ”
“Always a great happiness”
Despite deteriorating working conditions, “satisfaction is still intense. There is nothing happier than seeing the realization of your work: the birth of a child. ”