Danielle
“Working through each increased dose of oxytocin every 20 minutes, I remember the midwives on duty and the doctors walking in and just pausing for a moment by the door, not for me … but so that they could take a deep breath of the lavender and calm themselves during their busy shifts! “
Bianca
"I was highly anxious. I was extremely invested in a hospital birth out of fear, and my trust in midwifery was sceptical at best...I ended up changing midwives. I like to think of this as me taking control of my journey and authoring my own story - something I would never have had the confidence to do had I not joined Authored”