About Quote by Liya Kebede

“Many midwives work as employees in large hospital practices, where the techno-medical model of care is still the rule. In practices like these, midwives…

— Ina May Gaskin

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

“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

“Midwives generally understood breastfeeding better than doctors.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

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

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

— Jessica Capshaw

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

— Ina May Gaskin

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

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

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

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