Gestational work or servitude conceptualises pregnancy and birth as a form of labour of the same ilk as plowing a field or reading for a postgraduate diploma. This is a grave error when it is embraced uncritically. Perhaps, by contrast, a mother’s journey with new life from conception to birth and beyond is the canvas on which her renewed self is being painted. She is not the worker; She is the work.

I made this decision knowing that it is in every way counterintuitive for a business... Yet, I’d had a growing awareness of my conscience calling me in this direction for some time… I’m embracing being harder to find, off the beaten track, perhaps a little bit mysterious… I now feel more aligned with my hopes for the birth community and the women I work with.