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Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.
Maya Angelou
The experience profoundly changed my perspective. In the hospital, I hadn't perceived the anxiety and foreboding that permeated birth until I experienced the impact of its absence among the midwives. The peace, wonder, and intimacy were infinitely greater. What a compelling difference!
Heidi Rinehart
We are made to do this work and its not easy...I would say that pain is part of the glory, or the tremendous mystery of life. And that if anything, it's a kind of privilege to stand so close to such an incredible miracle.
Simone
Whose eyes sparkle like the stars?
Whose smile outshines the sun?
Whose skin is soft as moon-glow?
Our precious little one!
Our families rejoice - a new life's begun
Our circle is richer with the birth of this one!
The bassinet is ready
the time has come
we hope you'll stop and visit
our newest little one!
Our little caboose has finally arrived!
It's early to bed
And earlier to rise
Since our darlin' little cowgirl
has blessed our lives
Booties that haven't touched the floor
the pony that stands by the stable door
the tiny saddle that's polished up bright
wait for our cowpoke to sleep all night!
Right on Par!
As you can see
our little golf pro
is fitting right into our family!
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.
Robin Lim
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
Anytime anyone has anything done to them by a physician, there is risk. Even a blood draw.
Dr. Tim Johnson
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
$13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.
Frank Oski
If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
Irma Bombeck
If we are to heal the planet, we must begin by healing birthing.
Agnes Sallet Von Tannenberg
To know the way ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese proverb
People never sing...except in the bathroom. Birthing women also make their natural sounds next to running bath water. There is something about the power of water. People are drawn to water, spas, and sacred streams. Women in labor are drawn to water, too.
Michel Odent
Well behaved women rarely make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Midwifery is rooted in the natural approach. Pregnancy and birth are considered fundamentally healthy processes which have many normal variations; it is normal part of life, not a medical condition…Only when complications occur which are beyond the midwife’s expertise, is the woman transferred to obstetric care.
Steiger
The woman’s choice itself may influence her level of anxiety and apprehension, and in obstetrics levels of anxiety have been shown to predict obstetric complications.
Wiegers study
Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile…initially scared me to death.
Betty Bender
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
I knew how to deliver breech babies vaginally.... I knew how to keep my hands off the breech.... how to let the baby's legs and body drop and hang, suspending its weight; I knew to allow the baby's head to notch out, nape hair by nape hair, from under the mother's pubic bone.... I knew how to concentrate on watching...to observe while physics and mechanics, uninterrupted, synchronized the birth.... If it became surgically necessary to intervene, there was time, but there was time for the breech delivery, too...."
Penny Armstrong
...experiences have clearly shown that an approach which "de-medicalizes" birth, restores dignity and humanity to the process of childbirth, and returns control to the mother is also the safest approach.
Michel Odent, MD
Treating normal labors as though they were complicated can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Rooks
In every country where I have seen real progress in maternity care, it was women's groups working together with midwives that made the difference.
Marsden Wagner
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