~Christine Northrup M.D.

July 2010

“I am a midwife, looking for the truth.” 

~Socrates, whose mother Phainarete, was a midwife.

June 2010

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

~Robin Lim
Midwife  & Relief Worker

May 2010

When we realize that birth is of a person by a person, then perhaps we will truly value humanity.

~ Connie Livingston
Owner/founder, Perinatal Education Associates, inc.
www.birthsource.com & www.thebirthfacts.com

April 2010

I wanted to give birth rather than being delivered.

~Ricki Lake on the birth of her 2nd son

March 2010

Hospitals should implement policies that support breastfeeding with particular attention to eliminating supplementation of healthy newborns.

^{~ Eugene Declercq}

February 2010

Another reason for the gap between evidence and practice is the excuses often given by physicians for why they reject evidence in their medical practice. These excuses include: the evidence is out of date; collecting evidence is too slow and prevents progress; I use clinical judgment and my experience; using anecdotal 'horror stories' to try to prove the need for an intervention which the evidence has found unnecessary; quoting evidence which is of poor and/or inadequate quality; 'trust me, I am a doctor'; 'stop doctor-bashing'; evidence erodes physician autonomy. In addition to these excuses, in maternity care common excuses include: our women have smaller pelvises (no evidence), our babies are getting bigger (no evidence), our population is not as homogenous (no evidence).

~ Marsden Wagner, from "Fish Can't See Water"

January 2010

"Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered."

- Sarah Buckley