02 May 2017 02 May 2017

We don't have to change the world

It was a midwife, nine months after the birth of my son, who lifted a weight off my shoulders that I wasn't even aware I'd been carrying She had come to my house to do a birth debrief with me, and was going through my notes to find out why it all went as it did I had spent the previous nine months feeling like a failure, and believing that it must have been my fault