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Dear Sarah

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22 April 2005. Dear Sarah, Congratulations on your 21st birthday. It is a milestone for me too as it is 21 years since my first homebirth. Your Mum a very shy girl of 17 asked me to be her midwife as she wanted to have her baby at home. She had found a doctor that was willing to come out to your country home, but it was too far for one of the few homebirth midwives to come. I scolded her and told her how dangerous it was to have a baby out of hospital. I asked her if this doctor was a hippy or an ex-missionary. She said he did look a bit like Billy Graham. My negativity went on throughout the pregnancy. I decided that I would be the martyr and come along as she wasn’t going to budge midwife or no midwife.

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homebirth, letter, reflection, rural