Statistically, the United States rates number 39 in maternal mortality. This means that it is safer to be pregnant and to give birth in 38 other countries than the USA... and less expensive too.

I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

Oxytocin rocks the world.

My first experience of having a baby was about as natural as birth can be, and though I didn't know it at the time, it set my feet on a path that eventually led me to become a childbirth author and a midwife.

Research points to the fact that being born without trauma is the foundation for having an intact capacity to love and trust.

I am just one of many many thousands of midwives, who are devoted to saving lives gently.