Don't criticize nature, stand in awe of it.

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

Breast stimulation is especially effective in starting labor at term when it is combined with sexual intercourse. Unless your partner is an abysmally poor lover, this combination is by far the most enjoyable method of induction.

Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?

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

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 had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.