Natural Childbirth Quotes

• If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.

  Michel Odent

  Inspiring, Children, Team

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• The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.

  Stephen Gaskin

  Inspiring, Pregnancy, Healing

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  Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

  Barbara Katz Rothman

  Mother, Strong, Pregnancy

  Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press

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• Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.

  Barbara Katz Rothman

  Mother, Baby, Pregnancy

  Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press

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• What's done to children, they will do to society.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Love, Family, Happiness

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

  Robin Lim

  Inspiring, Pregnancy, Profound

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• No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Pregnancy, Birth, Painful

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• Having a highly trained obstetrical surgeon attend a normal birth is analogous to having a pediatric surgeon babysit a healthy 2-year-old.

  Marsden Wagner

  Years, Healthy, Normal

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• Natural childbirth allows the hormones that have been working for women for thousands of years to fulfill their functions. This is more important than just helping a woman through labor and delivery. Birth-related hormones also affect well-being much later in life.

  Janet Schwegel

  Pregnancy, Later In Life, Years

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• The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety.

  Sarah J. Buckley

  Passion, Safety, Giving

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• We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down.

  Michel Odent

  Lying, Thinking, Giving

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• There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.

  Penelope Leach

  Baby, Children, Pregnancy

  Penelope Leach (1989). “Your Baby & Child: From Birth to Age Five”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence

  Smiley Blanton

  Children, Love Is, Giving

  Smiley Blanton (1956). “Love or perish”

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• Ahhhhhhhh. There is nothing natural about natural childbirth. It is as close to a freak accident as anything I can think of. Why I picked a time like this to go off drugs?

  Jane Wagner

  Thinking, Drug, Freak

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• Natural childbirth scares me. I think before you have natural childbirth you should find out how big the baby is. Three pounds -- natural childbirth. Anything over three pounds -- heroin.

  Rita Rudner

  Baby, Thinking, Scare

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• My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.

  Robin Williams

  Mother, Makeup, Ideas

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• The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man such a personally invasive question as "Is your wife having natural childbirth or is she planning to be knocked out?" But someone might ask that of you. No matter how much you wish for privacy, your pregnancy is a public event to which everyone feels invited.

  Jean Marzollo

  Pregnancy, Men, Wife

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