My Typical Week
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My second year living in Seuneubok Lhong was very different from my first year. People became more welcoming. I started to provide community-based health services once a month with the help of a few volunteers from the community. I went to the health clinic in the next village every Wednesday morning. And every Thursday I would go to the midwife academy in the Bireuen city. I am a lecturer there. I tell my students about my experience as a midwife in this village. I also encourage students who want to come out to the village to do “live in” practice in Seuneubok Lhong.
Every day people can come to my house for care or I will go to their home if they prefer. My door is open 24 hours a day for the people in this village. If a woman is about to deliver a baby, I go and help her in her home. Most of women in this village want to have their babies at home.
Our government encourages people to have their babies at a health facility with the help of a professional health worker. I want the women in my village to deliver in my house where I have my midwife kit, medicine and other health care equipment. But so far only a few of them have delivered in my house. I think the most important thing is that they have now started to deliver with me, not with the traditional birth attendants.
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