Squat 300 times a day, you’re going to give birth quickly.

Ina May Gaskin

Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make your a better person.

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

Let your monkey do it.

It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.

Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.

The suckling relationship is one of the sources of real sweetness that we have in human existence...The suckling baby can teach adults about the expression of sweet love and gratitude in a way no words can.

The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

I have never observed even the slightest laceration in a woman who used clitoral stimulation as a relaxation method during birth. Clitoral stimulation seems to increase vaginal engorgement as the baby emerges.

When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.