If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.

Don't criticize nature, stand in awe of it.

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

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.

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.

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

I have never observed even the slightest laceration in a woman who used clitoral stimulation as a relaxation method during birth. Clitoral stimulation seems to increase vaginal engorgement as the baby emerges.