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 love to receive babies into this world, so crawling around on my knees in the birth room is my best place, and most often you can still find me there.

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

The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am astonished every time.

I get happy very easily and very often.

I became a fierce advocate for gentle birth as a solution for the most pressing problems of our times - a solution that begins at the source.

Like my sister, 981 women die every day on Earth from pregnancy and birth-related complications.