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

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

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

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.

Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor, are against the rules?

Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth as well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.