Welcome to Penny, meet our number 3. Join us for a chat about expectations. It's not an easy path to become a midwife, the years at uni, the hours at placement (essentially working a full time job for free), the essays, exams, grad year applications and interviews......But now we're here, on the other side, so how is it? Is working as a midwife what we expected, compared to our student days and our pre-midwife life. Do we love it, hate it, somewhere inbetween?