Today we have Louise joining us, talking about the birth of baby Florence. She shares about the lesson of vulnerability and I have to say, this birth experience was vulnerable for me too, as Louise and Cody’s midwife. At that time, I had placed a lot of pressure on myself to be ‘perfect’ - that is, to have impeccable practice that was impossible to criticise. An impossible task! 

So when we discovered that Florence was breech at 40 weeks of pregnancy, it was very difficult for me to accept that I’d missed detecting this earlier - and how might things have been different if I had. And isn’t it the case that we’re always our own harshest critic. 

Sometimes babies hide their positions from us, do they have insight that we don’t? If we’d known her position earlier, would there have been more stress and anxiety during that time? 

But I’ll let Louise tell her powerful story.

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