Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?

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.

Let your monkey do it.

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.

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

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

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