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About Our Guest:Heather Taylor is a midwife in Brantford, Ontario at the Brantford Community Midwives - https://www.communitymidwivesofbrantford.ca/. Heather joined the Community Midwives of Brantford in 2005 after completing her midwifery training through Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. Originally from Northern B.C. and more recently from Western Quebec, Heather now calls Paris, Ontario home.The Time Stamps:History of the Job - 00:03:24Interview Begins - 00:05:35The Social Stuff:Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram. The Business Details:Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.comSounds You Heard:Theme Music by CoopAdditional sounds in the episode:A thank you to Laura for letting us record sound of her newborn Isobel during one of her first home visits with Heather. Facts You Heard:Information on the History of Midwiveshttps://people.howstuffworks.com/midwife2.htmBiblical passages that reference Midwiveshttp://www.ccbirthcenter.com/midwifery-bible-i/?doing_wp_cron=1575433473.8874320983886718750000#:~:targetText=Mention%20in%20the%20Bible&targetText=The%20Hebrew%20term%20translated%20%E2%80%9Cthe,and%20in%20Exodus%201%3A16.History of Women Healers (including witchcraft claims in the Middle Ages)https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.82.2.288History of Midwives in Ontariohttps://www.jogc.com/article/S0849-5831(98)80058-X/pdfBirth Statistics from the Canadian Association of Midwiveshttps://canadianmidwives.org/midwifery-across-canada/#1467634074483-f50b550d-db87Statistics on Midwifery-led births in the UShttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6642827/Etymology of the Word Midwifehttps://www.etymonline.com/word/midwife