We want to do this ourselves in the most comfortable setting we can think of - to be in each moment together and not be persuaded by a hospital's agenda.

Child birth is one of the most natural and ancient things to occur, and the fact that 95 percent (of babies) are delivered in the hospital, and a huge percent are C-sections, is rather telling to our detachment from the process.

Lindsay thought she might feel vulnerable in the hospital, partly because there is this hospital conceptualization of births as a medical emergency. You are on a time table and they want you in and out as quick as possible.

Because they are generated in what may seem to be a very comfortable setting, the frequent candor has led to multitudes of embarrassing moments,

Eternity isn't before or later; it is now.

One action is for now. One time is present. One action shall give up its seat for another. One time will phase into another.