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

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.

I get happy very easily and very often.

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 became a passionate seeker of childbirth knowledge.

I had amazing midwives when I first became a teen-aged mom, and each of the five times I gave birth.

Oxytocin rocks the world.