In most societies birth has been an experience in whichwomen draw together to help each other and reinforce bonds in the community. Now that eradicat…

- Sheila Kitzinger

In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical…

- Sheila Kitzinger

In acknowledging woman-to-woman help it is important to recognize that power, within the family and elsewhere, can be used vindictively, and that it …

- Sheila Kitzinger

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart is written with great awareness and sensitivity. Deborah Davis gets it just right.

- Sheila Kitzinger

In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has gained.…

- Sheila Kitzinger

For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do thems…

- Sheila Kitzinger

All that is needed for the majority of labors to go well is a healthy, pregnant woman who has loving support in labor, self-confidence , and attendan…

- Sheila Kitzinger

Fathers' sharing in the birth experience can be a stimulus for men's freedom to nurture, and a sign of changing relationships between men and women. …

- Sheila Kitzinger

Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world…

- Sheila Kitzinger