Homebirth Quotes & Sayings

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 from the home-birther. This is judgmental and vindictive. These doctors have decided that home birth is not safe, and by withholding prenatal care they are doing their best to make sure it is unsafe. Often it is lay midwives who step forward to fill the void and help eliminate the unnecessary dangers of home birth. They are essential for screening out women who really should not have a home birth. For considerably less money than a physician charges, they spend many more hours with a pregnant woman before, during, and after the birth. and in most places they courageously face the opposition of the established medical community. — Susan McCutcheon

Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients. — Mallory Ortberg

Man, who is the only creature on earth which God willed for itself, can fully find himself only through a sincere gift of himself. — Pope John Paul II

$13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding. — Frank A. Oski

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down. — Martin Parr

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing. — Ami McKay

You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal — Martin Amis

The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest. — John Arlott

I'm mischievous. The idea of taking risks and having real-world consequences energizes me. — Shepard Fairey

If I get the idea, and I get some clarity on how I feel about that idea, then I can safely assume I'll find the right words. I do have that confidence. — Philip Schultz

A superpower that no longer stands for anything, that no one believes in anymore, that is seen only as a bully, will fall despite its military might. If the Bush administration ever wanted to reflect on history, it might think about this. — Mark Kurlansky