In Water, In Blood, In Grace

The Nine Births of Our Children

The other day, I was chatting with some of the women at work. One of them is pregnant, and the conversation drifted to midwives and home birth. Somebody asked how many we’d done. Most people don’t know this, but Emily and I used to run a fairly large Facebook page on home birth.

But we’re not purists. Our rule of thumb was simple: do what’s most natural,…