My passion for maternal and child health led me to continue my studies and pursue the path of midwifery. And here I am now... still catching babies.

Oxytocin is the hormone of love. We share it when we have a good conversation, we share it when we make love, and when we hug, and BIRTH is the biggest brightest time of rich oxytocin-sharing.

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

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.