Quotes Tagged With :midwife

Remember this, for it is as true and true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The....

Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something....

What's it like here?There's a biscuit factory next door. We get the broken ones.

The baby, when he or she is ready to be born, will send a message that tells the mother’s body that....

My dear boy, in Ireland the midwife uses one hand to hold the baby's best fighting arm from the font....

When a woman births, not only is a baby being born but so is a mother. How we treat her will affect how....

Failing to listen to the woman is one of the biggest mistakes a practitioner can make.

The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there's trouble.....

One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask....