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
“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 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
There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to… — Paulo Freire 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
“She was not as stupid as some I have had, and better company, but still perhaps her going was for the best.… — Karen Cushman Copy Share Image
I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
“The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there's trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as… — Sheila Stubbs Copy Share Image
My passion for maternal and child health led me to continue my studies and pursue the path of midwifery. And here I… — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding. — Frank Oski Copy Share Image
Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion… — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
