Everyday we experience moments of choice.  In every situation, our response is a choice.  To respond with kindness does not mean giving your power away, or compromising yourself.  Quite the contrary, kindness is simply a manor in which we choose to communicate, whether we are saying no thank you, or thank you, being kind simply takes no effort. I really had a chance to see this in practice, in the intense environment of a public health birth unit. It was a day, like many others, where the ward was full to the brim with laboring mothers.   Every nurse, midwife and gynae was rushed off their feet.  Many of them…