"Don’t only wish for a beautiful birth, prepare for one."

"My midwife was inside the house preparing a few things, and I started feeling 'pushy.'"

"My midwife arrived at 2:30 p.m., and I promptly ripped my clothes off. I moved around from floor to birthing tub to toilet to birthing stool to bed. I bellowed until my throat was sore."

"I was standing up, leaning over on the bed to get comfortable, and breathing through contractions when my husband and the paramedics walked in. I told them if they laid me down on the bed to check me I wasn't going to be getting up without a baby."

"The contractions were at their strongest at this point and the thought of standing while having one was not appealing to me."