Approach Quote by Michel Odent

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful…

— Scott Adams

When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence…

— Michel Odent

There's a a right to privacy for all individuals and all who have legal rights - and that includes the unborn. As an obstetrician,…

— Ron Paul

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

Birth is not an emergency. It is simply an emergence.

— Jeannine Parvati Baker

“Obstetricians also doubted the female intellectual capacity to grasp the anatomy and physiology of childbirth, and suggested that they could not therefore be trained.…

— Jennifer Worth

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

Loving everything about yourself - even the 'unacceptable' - is an act of personal power. It is the beginning of healing.

— Christiane Northrup

As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac…

— Christiane Northrup

We have an epidemic of obese six-month-olds. We actually have an epidemic of obese newborns. They don't diet and exercise. How do you explain…

— Robert Lustig

A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the…

— Grantly Dick-Read

It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after…

— Frederick Leboyer