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

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

In a nutshell, I am a mom, a grandma, and a midwife.

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 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.

I love to receive babies into this world, so crawling around on my knees in the birth room is my best place, and most often you can still find me there.

The number of maternal deaths is significantly understated because of a lack of effective data collection both in the US and around the world.