Birth Quote by Henci Goer

“The fashion, or trend, is reversing slightly today, and the home birth rate is around two per cent. Perhaps this is because hospital delivery…

— Jennifer Worth

“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

A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it's such a violent moment inside of the body that…

— Erykah Badu

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

Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations.

— Liya Kebede

In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is,…

— Jean Marzollo

Family is so important and as a country we must allow for parents to spend time with their babies because providing parents the ability…

— Colin Allred

...thousands of women could be saved each year if they had access to skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth, and access to emergency obstetric…

— Lee Jong-wook

In order to improve maternal health, we have to focus on improving all women's health and access to care - not just during labor…

— Leana S. Wen

Infancy is a vulnerable stage of development, therefore, it's not enough that babies receive good care, the care must be excellent.

— Magda Gerber

I'm definitely not the person who's gonna sit anywhere and tell you that home birth is the only way to have a baby because…

— Eva Amurri

The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs…

— Ina May Gaskin