74: More Than One Moment of Birth

This week, my oldest got married, my second oldest moved out, and my youngest started getting ready for college, on top of a fourth threshold I already lived through last year. This episode is about what that did to me, why eighteen years of catching literal births taught me something I needed this week more than any five-step plan, and the belief underneath everything I teach: every woman has more than one moment of birth. In this episode: Why I'm recording this the same week it happened instead of waiting until I had it figured out The two other times in my life I've had to become someone new without choosing to, once at 40, once in my 50s Why this story has four kids in it, not three, and what my son taught me about growing up on his own time The line from eighteen years of catching babies that I had to apply to myself this week: presence before instruction What the August masterclass is (and isn't), and who it's for Join the free live masterclass on August 26th: themidwifelife.kit.com/masterclass