My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at…

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in…

— Liya Kebede

Every midwife knows that not until a mother’s womb softens from the pain of labor will a way unfold and the infant find that…

— Rumi

I had amazing midwives when I first became a teen-aged mom, and each of the five times I gave birth.

— Robin Lim

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

— Dan Simmons

After disasters, reproductive healthcare falls by the wayside. Yet babies continue to be born. When all infrastructure falls apart, when the hospitals and all…

— Robin Lim

Women are being told to get midwives [in UK] because there's not enough room and there's not enough pain medicine at the hospitals.

— Rush Limbaugh

When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch…

— Ina May Gaskin

It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.

— Barbara Katz Rothman

I am just one of many many thousands of midwives, who are devoted to saving lives gently.

— Robin Lim

“Then there were those girls who became midwives: girls who could not get enough of the tiniest of babies - girls who would grow…

— Chris Bohjalian

“Today, the lay midwife is a response to a growing home-birth movement. In my own community most physicians have decided to withhold prenatal care…

— Susan McCutcheon

“We must always remember that we are only midwives—if we want praise for progeny we must give birth to our own.”

— Diana Athill

I had such a nurturing team of midwives looking after me with my first little girl, and their support gave me so much confidence…

— Katie Piper

“Midwives do not fear life.”

— Anita Diamant

Midwives not only save lives. They are also actors of social change.

— Isabella Lovin