My dear friend and fellow birth worker Raina and I went deep diving on this episode. Through all the loss she has seen in her life, we explore some tear-jerking emotional experiences first and how those played a hand in her becoming a woman, a mother, and the birth worker that she is today. We talk on how birth attending is a fellowship, the differences in what we offer as traditional attendants as opposed to what the medical model of midwifery offers and how advocacy has been lost in the field of birth workers. We touch on connection with our clients, cause for transfer and how we’ve held space for clients that would have been transferred with literally anyone else sitting at their feet, and yet.. we stayed home. She shared intimately about the births that have made a profound impact on her this year, as well as her own personal birth stories and where she found her calling and her self through her own birthing experiences. We rattle on for hours, affirming what we know to be true, but that others have not yet discovered in this wonderful work we do and how it’s so important to have birth buddies who understand. I am just so thankful that she is in fact one of my birth buddies. I hope you enjoy our friendly banter here.