There is a largely-ignored healthcare calamity in the United States that sees between two and three women die every day during pregnancy and childbirth.

Gentle birth, protecting mother and baby, is a solution that I believe will result in positive change for our society.

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.

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.

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

Oxytocin rocks the world.