Childbirth Quotes - Page 3

• A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit.

  Peter Jackson

  Beautiful, Pregnancy, Tree

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• Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hurt, Poverty, Know How

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• So many words commonly used to describe childbirth-support, patient, management, delivered by, coached, helped, guided-suggest that a woman does not have the power to give birth without being dependent on somebody else. This isn't the case at all.

  Michel Odent

  Giving, Support, Doe

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• The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Pregnancy, Moose, Birth

  Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Ina May's Guide to Childbirth”, p.141, Random House

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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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• Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Pregnancy, Thinking, Moose

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• Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.

  Carrie Fisher

  Love, Baby, Pregnancy

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• Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four children at home. She can also speak like a medical doctor. By intermingling the language of the heart and the scientific language she is driving the history of childbirth towards a radical and inspiring new direction.

  Michel Odent

  Mother, Children, Home

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• Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.

  Debra Evans

  Dream, Expectations, Heaven

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• Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth

  Christiane Northrup

  Pregnancy, Giving, Bed

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• All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!

  Gabriela Mistral

  Night, Sweat, Flesh

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• In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.

  Nora Ephron

  Pain, Men, Way

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Mar 11, 2014

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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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• Having a baby can be a scream.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Scream, Having A Baby

  Joan Rivers, Jerrilyn Farmer (2009). “Murder at the Academy Awards (R): A Red Carpet Murder Mystery”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.

  Anne Frank

  Children, Pain, War

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from May 10, 2015

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• I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit.

  Erma Bombeck

  Firsts, Hysterical, Frightened

  Erma Bombeck (1996). “Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• When my husband Edgar and I were courting, he said he couldn't wait to have a baby. It was only after we were married that he changed his mind and decided that I should have the baby.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Husband, Should Have

  Joan Rivers (1978). “Having a Baby Can Be a Scream”, Avon Books

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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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• Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world of 'now' with the world of the ancestors, and is part of the great tree of life extending in time and eternity.

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Past, Tree, Culture

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• One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women's choices concerning childbirth.

  Adrienne Rich

  Religious, Law, Giving

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• I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.

  Sherry Glaser

  Funny, Baby, Pregnancy

  Sherry Glaser (1997). “Family secrets: one woman's affectionate look at a relatively painful subject”, Fireside

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• Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.

  Robin Lim

  Baby, Birth, Forgotten

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• I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic Vor youths. For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'. Well, they do die romantically of disease sometimes, but somehow it's always an illness that makes you interestingly pale and everyone sorry and doesn't involve losing bowel control.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Girl, Sorry, Play

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• When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Mother, Husband, Pain

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• According to physiological law, all natural, normal functions of the body are achieved without peril or pain. Birth is a natural, normal physiological function for normal, healthy women and their healthy babies. It can, therefore, be inferred that healthy women, carrying healthy babies, can safely birth without peril or pain.

  John Dye

  Baby, Pain, Pregnancy

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