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.

Let your monkey do it.

Breast stimulation is especially effective in starting labor at term when it is combined with sexual intercourse. Unless your partner is an abysmally poor lover, this combination is by far the most enjoyable method of induction.

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.

Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

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

If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.