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

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.

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

My sister had health insurance; she should have been warned by her doctors that she was at risk. But she was a minority. The doctors took little interest in her as an individual, and she fell through the cracks. And died.

I get happy very easily and very often.

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.

I became a passionate seeker of childbirth knowledge.