MIDWIVES “MOTHER THE MOTHER”

National Midwifery Week October -5 October 11th, 2025

Well we are closing out the week of an incredible month of so many celebratory events. It seemed like a good time as ever to reflect on what it would mean to truly honor the midwives.

I AM A Midwife!

So there I said it out loud. The conventional wisdom is that it is not your job, or even what you you are doing at this very moment. It is a “calling” . It is who you are, you were born that way. It is a spiritual path of discovery, acceptance, or denial at your own peril. Soul’s purpose even if you didnt’ have a clue as to how you found yourself there and who might join you.

This complementary role I have taken on as a scribe often compells me to wonder out loud in writing before taking pen to paper or hitting the keyboard.

What is it that I want to write about, who is my audience and who cares if it will be read or not. It is the documentation that I was there, and we were there and what happened. This is and what but at this stage for me there is less a competing interest of not much time left and what is it that I can only do. An autobiographical non linear spin on being a midwife would start at heart and home, dare I look elesewhere that at my own lived experience.