Christy Turlington Quotes

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

How may child bearing women be most encouraged and supported in the time of childbearing?

It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth.

I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.

I think that there's a real sense in which pregnancy should be something that you do with your doctor, but I think that for a lot of women the time you have with your doctors is limited and it can be difficult to get all of the answers to your questions.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.

You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. We inform, engage, and mobilize audiences to take action and raise funds that support maternal health programs around the world.

If we can't support a woman while she is giving life, then we don't support women.

When 1970s feminism hit the United States, women demanded the right to natural childbirth and to have their husband or another support person in the delivery room. My mother gave birth to me during this time.

Access to maternal healthcare is a human right.

From conception to delivery, it has been a great experience. I was determined to give a natural birth.

I was always interested in midwifery; it was my plan B.

I am particularly interested in helping to heal women who have a fistula after their pregnancies.

I am not just pro-birth. I believe in supporting a woman during and after pregnancy.

Birth Matters... It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother's bodies. It's the means from which we enter and feel our first impression of the wider world. For each mother, it is an event that shakes and shapes her to her innermost core. Women's perceptions about their bodies and their babies' capabilities will be deeply influenced by the care they receive around the time of birth.

Every era in history has needed, and will need, reproductive health services.

Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she's going to lose her baby or that her baby will lose her mother.

...thousands of women could be saved each year if they had access to skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth, and access to emergency obstetric care. Most of the interventions they need are simple, affordable, and highly effective.