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.

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.

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.

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

When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

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.

It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby... it inspires him.