Home birth Quote by Jennifer Worth

Excellent outcomes with much lower intervention rates are achieved at home births. This may be because the overuse of interventions in hospital births introduces…

— Henci Goer

“The links between hospital deliveries, over-medicalised birthing practices and the 20th-century decline of breastfeeding are strong.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from…

— Jessica Mitford

“In the 1940s women were changing from home to hospital where they gave birth alone and thus birth became a mystery to the next…

— Robert A. Bradley

“between 1915 and 1930, US maternal mortality did not decline and deaths of babies from birth injuries actually increased. Hospitals advertised widely, urging mothers…

— Gabrielle Palmer

I think it's important to balance out what people see today as normal birth, in a hospital room, flat on their backs, usually with…

— Ricki Lake

Pregnancies spaced too closely together lead to increased rates of infant mortality.

— Ralph Northam

“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

“current birth rate in Liverpool, the provision of a maternity unit cannot wait. They are calling it a baby boom apparently, and you have…

— Nadine Dorries

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

— Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving birth don't…

— Elizabeth Noble

Birth Matters... It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother's bodies. It's the means…

— Ina May Gaskin