 The midwife's role is to support a pregnant person's journey through each stage of pregnancy, birth, and the early days with their new baby. Midwives believe that you know what is best for you and your baby and will work together with you to ensure your experience of pregnancy and birth is safe and positive. Okay, now we can all agree, hopefully, that human milk and chest milk are the most disturbing and revolting rebranding attempts in world history, even worse than New Coke, probably.