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

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.

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.

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we

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.

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

Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.