Part Two of this lovely interview with Midwife Chelsea Smith.

An interview with Chelsea Smith, Midwife

This interview has been sitting in my files for quite awhile and as I read through it again, I was brought to tears by Chelsea’s clear passion for birth and holding space for individual families as they meet their babies on their own terms. I’m so, so grateful to Chelsea for taking the time to share such profound and articulate thoughts on home birth and her practice.

Whether you feel drawn to a home birth because of the individualized care, you want to be the one making the rules when it comes to who is welcomed into your birth space, you want to avoid common interventions standard in hospital, or your cultural or spiritual beliefs, the next step in the process of deciding if this journey is right for you is to find a midwife.

I have to say, I was surprised when those two little lines showed up several days before my missed period. We had tried for months to get pregnant with our last baby, and I was expecting the same this time…