I came across this passage today as I was flipping through midwifery journals. It was published on the cover of Midwifery Matters, Winter 2009 no. 123, quoted from the Tao te Ching, 5th century BCE.
You are a midwife
You are helping at someone else's birth.
Do good without show or fuss.
Facilitate what is happening
rather than what you
think ought to be happening.
If you must lead,
lead so the woman is
helped, yet still free
and in charge.
When the baby is born,
the woman will rightly say,
"We did it ourselves."
Brave Melissa - adding another commitment! I searched and searched for midwifery student blogs when applying to the MEP and only found one. Thanks for adding your voice.
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