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.

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

The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.

Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of women’s capacities in birth is lost to the people of that society—to professional caregivers, as well as to the women of childbearing age themselves.

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 obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.

I think that women can be just completely surprised by the change in them from giving birth-you have something powerful in you-that fierce thing comes up-and I think babies need moms to have that fierceness-you feel like you can do anything and that’s the feeling we want moms to have.

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