A response to a Sunday Times piece on home birth that conflated safety with medicalisation and experience with risk. A collection of voices pushing back against the false choice between a good birth and a safe one.

Following the Morecambe Bay investigation, midwife Oli asked key figures in maternity care what the Kirkup report meant for them personally. Responses from Sheena Byrom, Jenny Hall, Mary Newburn, Lesley Page, Rebecca Schiller, Shawn Walker and Oli herself.

What does "reasonable" actually mean? A late-night detour through philosophy, law, human rights legislation and NIH consensus statements, prompted by an undergraduate midwifery dissertation on vaginal breech birth. Useful exercise or excellent procrastination? Possibly both. Curiouser and curiouser..