Quote by Roberta Rich

“I had no idea how we were going to figure this out. but women had been having babies since the beginning of time without…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“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

“We must always remember that we are only midwives—if we want praise for progeny we must give birth to our own.”

— Diana Athill

“No one should have to go through life feeling inadequate because of what she was denied by birth or circumstance.”

— Barbara Cutrera

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“What would she have made of her life in the absence of childbirth? Maybe no more than she did in its presence and to…

— Debbie McGowan

“I politely told my doctor that instead of taking her advice, I’d dedicate myself to researching other options for my healing and care. She…

— Alisa Vitti

“All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but history teaches…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“When women exclusively breastfed after birth they were less likely to die.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

“The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there's trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as trouble; if…

— Sheila Stubbs

“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