Calling the Waves @ the Labour Wing

A personal essay on induction

“The midwife just called me to say there’s a bed available to, I think she said, *call my baby*. I need to head there ASAP - are you available?”

It was the third birth I had supported as a birth doula solo, without my mentor. Over the past two years, all I had conditioned my birth worker self to do was help make home births the norm in the U.K. Although…