The Guardian freebirth article 28.4.17

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/28/experience-i-had-a-free-birth?CMP=fb_gu

Lacey's description of her early encounters with midwives as being without joy is so interesting - they appear to have been about delivering the menu of care, the conveyor belt her GP described, inducting her into the system, and not about embarking with her on her individual journey of a lifetime, route as yet unknown.  If there is no "added-value" in antenatal care for a woman, then there is little point to it for most healthy women.  NICE has largely reduced antenatal care to one long screening exercise (with some mass medication thrown in), not preparation for healthy birth and parenthood.

Lacey's Instagram page is here in case the article disappears:
https://www.instagram.com/verylacey/?hl=en