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.

It's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women... But it's not nice, so let's stop it.

Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor, are against the rules?

Gardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds are germinating and sprouting, and they should be planted in a nutrient-rich soil. Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.

If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.

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.