Epic journeys

I love my job - spending time with women and their families in the antenatal and postnatal periods and the excitement of being called to welcome a new baby into the world. Sometimes they like to take their time in arriving – many hours pass, this labour feels endless, life has become confined to a small room and you’re existing on chocolate and Red Bull, trying to keep providing support and encouragement. But then the magic moment finally arrives, the baby takes its first cry and the exhaustion drops away momentarily, replaced by the wonder that a new birth always brings.