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.

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

I learned that a healthy society is made up of loving, trusting individuals, and that these individuals in turn protect their environment, become stewards of our land, air and water, and they make peace, rather than war.

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.

Every baby's first breath on Earth could be one of peace and love. Every mother should be healthy and strong. Every birth could be safe and loving. But our world is not there yet

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

I cry when I work in the garden, because the Sun, the rain, the wind and the Earth all work together to make us food and flowers. It just blows me away.