It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby... it inspires him..

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad..

When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter..

Let your monkey do it..

It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that ob….

If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospita….

I have never observed even the slightest laceration in a woman who used clitoral stimulation as a relaxation method during birth. Clitoral stimulatio….

Squat 300 times a day, you’re going to give birth quickly..

Birth Matters... It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother's bodies. It's the means from which we ent….

I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species of mammals and sa….

It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight..

Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are..

A society that places a low value on its mothers and the process of birth will suffer an array of negative repercussions for doing so. Good beginning….

The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undistur….

When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea..

Don't criticize nature, stand in awe of it..

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we.

Breast stimulation is especially effective in starting labor at term when it is combined with sexual intercourse. Unless your partner is an abysmally….

Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female ….

Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know..

Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life..