I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

I'm definitely on the spectrum of socially awkward.

As a kid, I felt really weird.

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to try to make sense of it all. Anni Daulter has created what should be the new standard for today's mom: birth journals, labor workbooks, pregnancy memoirs, and holistic wisdom. It is gentle and enlightening, and lays the foundation for what we know helps women have the labor and birth they want and deserve: support, self-knowledge, and empowerment.