Dr. Sarah Buckley is trained as a family physician (GP) with qualifications in GP obstetrics. She is the author of the best-selling book Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering and the 2002 article, “Ecstatic Birth, Nature’s Hormonal Blueprint for Labour,” which was one of the most popular ever published. Sarah has a special interest in the hormones of labor and birth and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Queensland studying oxytocin in childbirth. Sarah is also a mother of four home-borne children and a writer and lecturer on pregnancy, birth, and parenting, based in Brisbane, Australia. See  sarahbuckley.com