After trudging through a quarter-life crisis at the age of twenty-five, where I undid and re-did the seams of my values and beliefs, I came out of it deciding to change careers and become a midwife. My decision wasn’t motivated by all the cute babies, though that is a decided bonus, but by a desire to advocate for women from my own community as well as women with life altering vulnerabilities. Birthing women and people have safer, happier pregnancies, births and family health when they are cared for in a personalised, tender and wholesome way. To catch a baby born from a woman whose dignity ha…