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.

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

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

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.

Let your monkey do it.

Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.

It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.