Admission Quote by Ina May Gaskin

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

“Scandinavia and Holland became safer places to give birth long before the UK and USA. They established high-quality training of midwives and were less…

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds…

— Ina May Gaskin

There is no scientific evidence that doing over 10 percent of births with a cesarean improves the outcome for the woman or improves the…

— Marsden Wagner

We see very, very high rates of C-sections, Cesarean sections, in India. Lots of reasons for it, high levels of malnutrition have meant that…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“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

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

Countries where women have access to professional life are also those where the birth rate is higher.

— Claude Martin

“The World Health Organization estimates that 536,000 women perished in pregnancy or childbirth in 2005, a toll that has barely budged in thirty years.…

— Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

It is a country that professes to care for babies. But in the United States, the infant death rate is twice as high as…

— Annie Lowrey

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

— Jessica Capshaw