HSE home-birth midwife Ali Boylan. Photo: Ruth MedjberUntil this week, when I met Ali Boylan, a registered HSE midwife, who cleared up some very common myths that besiege her profession. Ali is a home-birth midwife and believes greatly in empowering eligible women and their partners to have their babies from the comfort of their own homes. But it’s you having the baby, you’re having the baby and you’re OK.’”Ali says that “the free HSE home-birth service is the best kept secret of the HSE”. Imagine if all the women, all your friends that had babies were feeling on top of the world and they felt like they did something that can change the world, rather than coming home a bit broken, a bit shook, scared and traumatised.

Source: Irish Independent April 03, 2026 09:03 UTC