A couple months ago I had the honor of attending the labor of a woman named Kate and the birth of her beautiful little girl. Kate and I had been chatting throughout the day about ways to encourage her labor as she was overdue. I was making dinner for my family, and lets call it doula intuition, made me reach out to Kate again. After a quick conversation, I immediately ran out of my house and hurried to hers. When I arrived, Kate was inactive labor, but handling her contrac