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.

Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.

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

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.

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.

Squat 300 times a day, you’re going to give birth quickly.