This Midwife Helps Women Cross Over Into Motherhood When a newborn baby is safely nested in his or her mother’s arms or breast right after birth, I congratulate her with,“Today is your Baby’s Birthday, and also your Birthing Day!” I believe a woman becomes a mother long before that blissful day of bonding with her baby on the outside - it happens the day she begins to consciously think about becoming a mother. During their nine months or so of pregnancy, women gestate their