I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

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

It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.

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

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

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 a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.