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

Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.

Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.

The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.

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

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

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.