First independent home birth

I’m now almost six weeks into my new midwifery venture and I have now attended my first home birth as an independent midwife which was lovely. Of course, it wasn’t all that different from attending home births before – I still have a colleague at the birth for back-up as I did before and the midwifery side of things hasn’t changed – but it was special nonetheless, particularly as I haven’t been at a home birth for a little while. I realised all over again just what an amazing privilege it is to be there watching a new baby enter the world.