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.

Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.

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

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.

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.

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.

We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.