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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.