Excellent outcomes with much lower intervention rates are achieved at home births. This may be because the overuse of interventions in hospital… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth. — Ethan Suplee Copy Share Image
Having a highly trained obstetrical surgeon attend a normal birth is analogous to having a pediatric surgeon babysit a healthy 2-year-old. — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth.… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
“Today, the lay midwife is a response to a growing home-birth movement. In my own community most physicians have decided to withhold… — Susan McCutcheon Copy Share Image
But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I changed my mind. Maybe I do want a black hole for a vagina. How bad could it be? I wouldn't need… — Tara Sivec Copy Share Image
If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“Why do men stay together? It is easy to understand why they fuck, but why do they stay together, what is the… — Jim Grimsley Copy Share Image
A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it's such a violent moment inside of the… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I had a home birth because I really believe in the body's natural ability to give birth. The medical profession has kind… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not the person who's gonna sit anywhere and tell you that home birth is the only way to have a… — Eva Amurri Copy Share Image
“The fashion, or trend, is reversing slightly today, and the home birth rate is around two per cent. Perhaps this is because… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out. — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“When ACOG (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) claims that home birth and midwives are unsafe, they imply that the women who… — Jennifer Block Copy Share Image
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