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

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Author:Sarah J. Buckley

“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.”

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Book:A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization

Source: A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization

“If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.”

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Author:Ina May Gaskin

“The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.”

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Book:The Fortress

Source: The Fortress

“After disasters, reproductive healthcare falls by the wayside. Yet babies continue to be born. When all infrastructure falls apart, when the hospitals and all their technological equipment are destroyed, midwives come in handy. They can help women give birth with or without electricity, running water, equipment - even shelter is optional. When babies are ready, they come.”

“My first experience of having a baby was about as natural as birth can be, and though I didn't know it at the time, it set my feet on a path that eventually led me to become a childbirth author and a midwife.”

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Author:Robin Lim

“I had amazing midwives when I first became a teen-aged mom, and each of the five times I gave birth.”

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Author:Robin Lim

“Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.”

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Author:Jostein Gaarder

“Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.”

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Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick