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I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm…

— Jennifer Granholm

“This means that most of the births they have seen were to women on epidurals lying still during labor, waiting for it all to…

— Ina May Gaskin

Labor ends when the baby is born.

— Anonymous

. . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and over: turn…

— Susan Piver

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

— Erma Bombeck

“A cesarean takes 88 percent less time to perform than a vaginal birth while producing almost twice the revenue.”

— Roanna Rosewood

“As I'm sure you know, "labor" is the term for the process by which a woman gives birth, and it is a Herculean task,…

— Lemony Snicket

The only significant effect of continuous electronic fetal monitoring was an increase in the cesarean rate.

— Michel Odent

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must…

— Grantly Dick-Read

When a child is born, the exact moment it draws its first breath should be noted, as that moment, and not the time of…

— Max Heindel

If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these…

— Ina May Gaskin