Ina May - Author, Activist, Innovator

Births completed at home - 95.1%

Non-emergency transports - 3.6%

Emergency transports - 1.3%

First-time mothers - 44.7%

Women having their 6th baby or more - 5.4%

All others - 49.9%

Vaginal births - 98.6%

Cesarean sections - 1.4%

US national average for 2001 - 24.4%

Cases with no preeclampsia - 99.61%

Cases of preeclampsia - .39%

Cases with no hemorrhage - 98.2%

Cases of postpartum hemorrhage - 1.8%

It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.

-- Barbara Katz Rothman, Sociologist, Author of The Tentative Pregnancy, Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations and other books.