Mother Quotes by Michel Odent

When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence…

— Michel Odent

We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we…

— Michel Odent

Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four children at…

— Michel Odent

I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the…

— Michel Odent

So many words commonly used to describe childbirth-support, patient, management, delivered by, coached, helped, guided-suggest that a woman does not have the power to…

— Michel Odent

It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their role should be to protect the emotional…

— Michel Odent

People never sing...except in the bathroom. Birthing women also make their natural sounds next to running bath water. There is something about the power…

— Michel Odent

If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to…

— Michel Odent

Let us imagine, for example, that a mother is still in such a state of consciousness that she has forgotten the rest of the…

— Michel Odent

To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born,

— Michel Odent

Experiences have clearly shown that an approach which 'de-medicalizes' birth, restores dignity and humanity to the process of childbirth, and returns control to the…

— Michel Odent

According to traditional wisdom in rural France, a baby in the womb should be compared to fruit on the tree. Not all the fruit…

— Michel Odent

The truth for women living in a modern world is that they must take increasing responsibility for the skills they bring into birth if…

— Michel Odent

...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.

— Michel Odent

The only significant effect of continuous electronic fetal monitoring was an increase in the cesarean rate.

— Michel Odent