For the last 35 years, Ina May Gaskin, author of the classic Spiritual Midwifery and A Guide to Natural Childbirth, has been at the forefront of a movement that has seen midwife-attended births rise from an estimated 20,000 in the 1970s to almost 300,000 today. By taking the fear and misinformation out of childbirth, a woman's chances for safe, spontaneous birthing increases and makes the healthy mother/healthy baby natural birth experience a more likely option for virtually any woman.  [More]