A birth plan isn’t a schedule. I’ve seen women cry when their labour takes a turn the pamphlet didn’t name, not because they’re afraid, but because they feel they’ve failed some test. Autonomy isn’t controlling what happens. It’s being present for what does. I don’t deliver babies. I deliver the space where a woman can listen to her body and trust it, even when it roars off the map. That’s the opposite of being scheduled. It’s letting time belong to the body, not the clock. In that room, there’s no such thing as late.
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