Well it is for me because it was having my girls and nothing else that made me want to be a midwife - a few years before my sister told me she was thinking of training as a midwife and I was like - what on earth would you want to do that for! I still feel really bad about that - particularly as she now has my girls for me to train!

However, I think there are many things midwifery that I have been tainted toward - because of my experience - those girls on my cohort that haven't had any babies I envy in many ways - they don't have the stress of kids on top of everything else for a start! But they see everything from a learning point of view whereas sometimes I really struggle not to get involved emotionally - which I don't think helps anyone!

I often say that I wish I'd wanted to be a midwife before I'd had children - but I didn't so thats that!