Quotes

I think of midwifery as a seed full of potential - a seed that will grow into a lush, blossoming tree with green branches and plenty of ripe fruit for nurturing women, babies, and families. 

Women’s bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered. 

My body knows just what to do. My baby grows just as it should be. 

We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong. 

If a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it. 

Birth is an experience that demonstrates that life is not merely function and utility, but form and beauty. 

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers ~ strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.

We’ve put birth in the same category with illness and disease and it’s never belonged there. Birth is naturally safe, but we’ve allowed it to be taken over by the medical community. 

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn’t fail at all.