Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.
Every baby's first breath on Earth could be one of peace and love. Every mother should be healthy and strong. Every birth could be safe and loving. But our world is not there yet
Gentle birth, protecting mother and baby, is a solution that I believe will result in positive change for our society.
I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote my life to making it happen.
Oxytocin is the hormone of love. We share it when we have a good conversation, we share it when we make love, and when we hug, and BIRTH is the biggest brightest time of rich oxytocin-sharing.
I came to the conclusion that bringing Humans to earth with an intact ability to LOVE is essential if we are to survive as a species.
I learned that a healthy society is made up of loving, trusting individuals, and that these individuals in turn protect their environment, become stewards of our land, air and water, and they make peace, rather than war.
I became a fierce advocate for gentle birth as a solution for the most pressing problems of our times - a solution that begins at the source.
Research points to the fact that being born without trauma is the foundation for having an intact capacity to love and trust.
Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.
The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am astonished every time.
Women will always pay the price for love, that is why God makes us so much stronger than men.
Oxytocin rocks the world.
I am just one of many many thousands of midwives, who are devoted to saving lives gently.
I cry when I work in the garden, because the Sun, the rain, the wind and the Earth all work together to make us food and flowers. It just blows me away.
In a nutshell, I am a mom, a grandma, and a midwife.
Statistically, the United States rates number 39 in maternal mortality. This means that it is safer to be pregnant and to give birth in 38 other countries than the USA... and less expensive too.
I love to receive babies into this world, so crawling around on my knees in the birth room is my best place, and most often you can still find me there.
I get crazy upset when I feel mothers or babies are not getting the loving care they need.
I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."
My passion for maternal and child health led me to continue my studies and pursue the path of midwifery. And here I am now... still catching babies.
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.
I get happy very easily and very often.
I became a passionate seeker of childbirth knowledge.
Like my sister, 981 women die every day on Earth from pregnancy and birth-related complications.
