Hands-Off Birth

by Barbara Herrera

From The Birthkit, Number 44, Winter 2004

This birth story is different from any I have ever written. As I share it, I watch my words go into midwives’ ears and minds and watch as they try to grasp what I am saying. During most of my life as a doula/midwife, I would have thought of myself, “What a fruitcake!” But the moral of this story is this: I serve the mother and her family—in whatever way she needs me to.

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