Birth stories

Storytelling is very much a part of my job – sharing birth stories with my colleagues and listening to client’s accounts of their births (and trying to capture key moments when I’m writing notes during a labour, trying to record a birth story as it unfolds). Some birth stories are very distressing to hear; when a woman has had a traumatic experience; but some are just awe-inspiring. I received this link from one of the midwifery email groups that I’m on – it’s a birth story complete with cartoons and is just such a beautiful way of expressing the magic of birth.