Eloise Horsfield
MIDWIVES will come together in Andalucia next month to celebrate their skills and passion for home birthing.
Now in its fourth year, Midwives Rock is a weekend course for midwives from across Spain and beyond.
“It is a celebration of the passion that we hold between us to make birth a beautiful gentle experience for women, their families and ourselves,” said organiser Vanessa Brooks, who has been a lay midwife for 16 years.
“Working with birth is challenging, exiting, exhausting , magical and often frustrating – such a myriad of emotions we need to share.”
The course, which takes place on the last weekend in October in Orgiva, will allow midwives to discuss the different aspects of dealing with home births as well as honing their skills.
Get thee to a hospital woman. Especially if it’s your first.
Why?
Because it’s safer.
I wonder what ‘lay midwife’ means…
Yes – as I suspected having looked at the website – it means ‘not actually a midwife’.
It should be noted that in the UK it is a criminal offence to pose as a midwife unless you are one. I don’t know about Spain…