Birth Quotes

From experts in the natural birth scene

• The Doula Guide to Birth

  "…labor is not about dilation. Your body knows how to give birth whether or not you ever have a pelvic exam during labor. Birthing women need encouragement to trust their bodies, and to be the stars of their own labors…"

• John H. Kennell, MD

  "If a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it."

• Annie Kennedy & Penny Simkin

  "Women's strongest feelings [in terms of their birthings], positive and negative, focus on the way they were treated by their caregivers."

• Suzanne Arms

  "The knowledge of how to give birth without outside interventions lies deep within each woman. Successful childbirth depends on the acceptance of the process"

• Laura Stavoe Harm

  "We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong."