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Tuesday
12Sep

Birth Ecology Quotations

DateTuesday, September 12, 2006 at 08:51PM

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A homebirth midwife elaborates on the midwife's relationship with nature:  

Midwifery is ecologically attuned, involving the wise utilization of resources and respect for the balance of nature.
- Elizabeth Davis, Heart and Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth

The don't call it gyn-ecology for no reason... 

A woman's reproductive system needs to be not just a collaboration between organs, but a sustaining environment, an ecosystem.
- Alexander Tsiaras, From Conception to Birth: A Life Unfolds

It's amazing, you can find references to fertility and nature everywhere, even in Williams Obstetrics: 

The fertilization of an egg by a sperm is one of the greatest wonders of nature, an event in which magnificantly small fragments of animal life are driven by cosmic forces toward their appointed end, the growth of the living being. As a spectacle it can only be compared with an eclipse of the sun or the eruption of a volcano... It is in fact, the most common and the nearest to us of nature's cataclysms.
- George W. Corner, quoted in Williams Obstetrics, 20th edition

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