For this week’s podcast we talk with our listeners about boundaries for midwives: why they’re necessary, how to establish them, and ideas for making boundaries work while still being accessible to our clients.

Some of the points we hit on include:

• The importance of setting boundaries for sustainability
• Setting boundaries early in your practice
• Lack of boundaries and family emergencies
• Ideas for phone routing
• Methods of communicating with your clients
• Establishing work hours
• How a group practice allows for better boundary setting
• Taking time off when you’re sick
• COVID considerations
• Clients’ understanding and wishes for our wellbeing
• Resentment as a consequence of lack of boundary setting

We know that this is is a strangely difficult topic for lots of midwives, but it is so important!