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

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

I have never observed even the slightest laceration in a woman who used clitoral stimulation as a relaxation method during birth. Clitoral stimulation seems to increase vaginal engorgement as the baby emerges.

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.

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.

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?

I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species of mammals and saw that there were lessons there to be learned.