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

Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.

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.

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

As a midwife, I am immersed in Oxytocin day and night.

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