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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

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

We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.

— Ina May Gaskin

Seeing what midwives do on a day-to-day basis - you really have this renewed respect for them.

— Emma Willis

“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

“Midwives generally understood breastfeeding better than doctors.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

Midwives not only save lives. They are also actors of social change.

— Isabella Lovin

“a midwife’s role was to work with nature, whereas a doctor was trained to seek out its defects and remedy them.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

In a majority of hospitals, in a majority of places, it is the nurses that are on the frontlines. They're the ones working every…

— Deborah Birx