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

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.

The suckling relationship is one of the sources of real sweetness that we have in human existence...The suckling baby can teach adults about the expression of sweet love and gratitude in a way no words can.

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

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.

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

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?