Being a midwife is both the doing and the being, and perhaps doing the midwifery also gives you access to the comfort of being part of something bigger than yourself – a community, a thread, a story. How do these stories anchor contemporary midwives into a ‘professional genealogy’ and what does this mean?

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Recently, I have being reading and thinking a lot about the edges of things: the borders and boundaries that restrict, hold and order pretty much every aspect of our lives. My thinking started with traditional stories, where borders, boundaries and thresholds abound. There are the literal ones: walls, hedges, doorways and bridges, usually well protected by guardians (“who’s trip trapping over my bridge?”). But these are not only physical…

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