**Meet the editor**

Since graduating as a first BSc midwife in 2000 (after a period of 14 years when there were no midwives trained in Slovenia) Polona Mivšek has become the first midwifery educator in Slovenia in 2002 and is currently the only midwife with a PhD in Slovenia. Currently she is Head of midwifery chair at the Faculty of Health Sciences Ljubljana. She is lecturing midwifery and since

2007 she is leading also a course of Sexology in midwifery for undergraduate midwifery students. She strongly believes that in order to manage midwifery care with empathy, midwives need to reflect upon their own points' of view (and also prejudices) regarding sexual issues.
