To witness the birth of a child is our best opportunity to experience the meaning of the word miracle.

We've put birth in the same category with illness and disease and it's never belonged there. Birth is naturally safe, but we've allowed it to be taken over by the medical community.

Birth is an experience that demonstrates that life is not merely function and utility, but form and beauty.

Birth is as safe as life gets.

The best way to avoid a cesarean is to stay out of the hospital.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.