It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.

When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch of surgeons or a bunch of male obstetricians, because physiologically, birth doesn’t happen the same way around surgeons, medically trained doctors, as it does around sympathetic women.

Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

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

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 undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

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 hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.

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.