So excited to publish this story! Here is one of the many reasons that this podcast started! My midwife! Yvonne come into our lives half way though our pregnancy as our backup midwife, we were a bit apprehensive at first as we already formed such a solid relationship with our main midwife. However, after spending the first hour with Yvonne we were all giggles and love! We found her to be a compassionate, skilled midwife with so much integrity. Here Yvonne tells her birth Journeys beginning in 1984 where she describes a very interesting experience of a doctor that rocks up to her birth in gumboots and plastic jacket! SO big QUESTION HERE.. whats has changed in the past 30 odd years?? Well to me the feelings still remain for many women, and the feeling for birthing for a better humanity is there. We are still facing the same violation of a womens rights in birth in 2016 as we were in 1984… Medical advancements have made great progress, yet to the detriment of who and what?? The many conversations I had with Yvonne during my pregnancy really stuck with the sheer determination of this woman, she is a midwife, a mother and a advocate for womens rights, this happened to her from a feeling, and we can all connect with that feeling right?. We are in a position now to heal and from the healing we can honour the woman and her baby as a whole, not two seperate beings… We are as one.! From Yvonne – “Women have to remember they have the voice and they have the choice.. Remember its them that birth their baby”.. Resources * Home Birth Australia – http://homebirthaustralia.org * Remember we have the choice, interview Hospitals, Obstetricians, Birth Centre Midwives and Home Birth midwives and see which is the best fit for you. * This imagery is of Wvonne of a birthing of Ania and Rodney & baby Otylia. * The beautiful photographer here is Virginia Maddock – Doula and Photographer http://www.naturalbeginnings.com.au or Instagram @natural_beginnings Connect with Yvonne Website: find her with the amazing team of Marie Heath servicing NSW area – http://midwyfservices.com.au