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“ Only rarely do doctors in training have the opportunity to sit continuously with laboring women for hours. Most are taught to intervene in the normal process so often and so early that they have never witnessed a normal labor and birth. ”

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It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.

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Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?

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Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

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The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.

~ Ina May Gaskin