ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I reflect on what it is like to be a midwife who is not a mother. To do this, I draw mainly on my own experience of being a midwife who is childfree, that is, voluntarily childless. It is possible that some of the ideas I present here may also apply to the midwife who is childless; this means that, for some reason outside her control, she doesn’t have children. This latter group would include the midwife who is involuntarily infertile, as well as the midwife whose child(ren) have been miscarried or who have died.
