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

Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies can flourish and quickly spread into the popular culture when the medical profession is unable to distinguish between ancient wisdom and superstitious belief.

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.

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.

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

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

Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.