I was visiting with a doula friend of mine recently. She was telling me about trying to find the balance between giving her clients good information about different things while making sure she wasn't pushing her own preferences or agenda. As a doula, her role is to give her client resources and evidence-based information, but respect her client to make her own choices, even if it's a choice she herself wouldn't make. Within a short time of that conversation, I heard from

I became a midwife because I was prompted to do so. It wasn't something that I needed or wanted in my life. I was a busy homeschool mom...