Every choice in my life has led me to where I currently stand today, so it could be argued that my journey in birth started with my own, but the moment this path became conscious to me was a few years ago on a farm in Ireland during the lambing season.

Witnessing these animals surrender to the unknown process of birth was powerful. Life and death danced together and sparked a light in me to follow this path. I then witnessed my sister’s beautiful home birth of my precious niece and was hooked.

I followed the only path into midwifery that I knew, and enrolled in a degree program. The three years of working within the NHS as a student slowly but surely broke my heart into many tiny pieces with each woman I witnessed being stripped of the rite of passage that belonged to her. I deeply wished that I could do my part to change these experiences and even the system itself – but in reality I was a drop in a stormy ocean being carried away.

I  knew there had to be another option, and at the perfect time, I was guided to ‘The Radical Birth Keeper School’ by my dear sister. Enrolling in this school gave me the answers I was searching for, and I realised that the system doesn’t need fixing as it is working exactly as it was always designed to.

This meant only one option – to serve outside of it!