“[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.” PeopleHomeThreeHouseFourDoorsBirthChildbirthHome Birth Author:Joyce Maynard
“But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?” WellsMayHomeCausesSimpleEffectsBabyBirthRoseRatePopulationCreditGermanyMistakenCause And EffectTemptingCorrelationPseudoscienceBirth RateStorksHome Birth Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“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.” NeedsHomeCareRunningIndividualCan DoBirthHealth CareSectionsHealth Care SystemHome BirthCesarean Author:Ina May Gaskin
“A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it's such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be.” WantMomentsHomeBodyAbleBeautifulBirthWhat You WantViolentHome Birth Author:Erykah Badu
“I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.” KindHomeParentBornBirthWestHippieManhattanHome Birth Author:Ethan Suplee