We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.

If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.

The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.