The midwives’ guild has seen some strange things- and sometimes discretion is the most important thing they can offer -- Weirdlet
When is a Guild not a Guild? When it has no chapterhouses, no schools, and little in the way of formal prenticeships. When there is no set uniform and the tools are those that the practitioners find handy, and are only available locally. Where the school is at two pairs of knees, and one is the patient. Yet, despite all of that, they are all unified in ethics and spirit.
Rule one: Save as many lives as possible.
Rule two: Tell the truth unless it puts rule one at risk.
Rule three: Get the expectant co-parents the fuck out of the area, they are more hinderance than help.
Rule four: Listen, understand, and leave your judgement between your ears.
Rule five: Sometimes, it is necessary to be sure that there won't be a birth.
Midwives don't have to be married, though they usually were. They knew all the secrets of their area of service and kept them tight and secure. That is, if they were any good. Nobody liked to tell the truth to a gossip, and truth can save more than one life.
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