Childbirth Quotes - Page 4

• The scriptures provide one of the best ways to find our course and stay on it. Scriptural knowledge also provides precious protection. For example, throughout history, infections like “childbirth fever” claimed the lives of many innocent mothers and babies. Yet the Old Testament had the correct principles for the handling of infected patients, written more than 3,000 years ago! Many people perished because man’s quest for knowledge had failed to heed the word of the Lord!

  Russell M. Nelson

  Mother, Baby, Men

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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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• Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter of outrage that over half a million women die annually from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. This is nearly half the annual global death toll, and arguably, a direct reflection of the disempowerment of women in social, economic and political life.

  Navi Pillay

  Pregnancy, Reflection, Rights

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• Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is... bigger than the transatlantic slave trade was in the nineteenth. They will be perplexed that we shrugged as a lack of investment in maternal health caused half a million women to perish in childbirth each year.

  Sheryl WuDunn

  Sex, Years, People

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2010). “Half The Sky: How to Change the World”, p.243, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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• There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Struggle, Men, Battle

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.561, Dell

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• It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It should be stopped. It is simply absurd that, with our modern science, painless childbirth does not exist as a matter of course.... I tremble with indignation when I think ofthe unspeakable egotism and blindness of men of science who permit such atrocities when they can be remedied.

  Isadora Duncan

  Men, Thinking, Matter

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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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• Having a baby is definitely a labor of love.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Children Love, Labor

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• Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Rain, Two, Hardest

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

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• When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.

  Caitlin Moran

  Husband, Feminist, Cooking

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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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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• Planning your own coming-of-age experience may wither you prematurely, but just think of it this way: If you can get through this, childbirth should be a breeze.

  Mimi Pond

  Thinking, Age, May

  Mimi Pond (1993). “A Groom of One's Own: And Other Bridal Accessories”, Plume Books

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• It is a well-established fact that in healthy loving women, uninjured by the too frequent lesions which result from childbirth, increasing physical satisfaction attaches to the ultimate physical expression of love. ... Love between the sexes is the highest and mightiest form of human sexual passion.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Sex, Passion, Love Is

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• There is a largely-ignored healthcare calamity in the United States that sees between two and three women die every day during pregnancy and childbirth.

  Robin Lim

  Pregnancy, Two, United States

  "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.

  Jessica Mitford

  Fashion, Media, Class

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• The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

  Leo Rosten

  Food, Years, Community

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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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• One of the things that really impressed me about Anna Karenina when I first read it was how Tolstoy sets you up to expect certain things to happen - and they don't. Everything is set up for you to think Anna is going to die in childbirth. She dreams it's going to happen, the doctor, Vronsky and Karenin think it's going to happen, and it's what should happen to an adulteress by the rules of a nineteenth-century novel. But then it doesn't happen. It's so fascinating to be left in that space, in a kind of free fall, where you have no idea what's going to happen.

  Elif Batuman

  Dream, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Baby, Mind, Tears

  Samuel Johnson (écrivain), Hester Lynch Piozzi (1788). “Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson LL.D., to which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed”, p.302

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• [On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.

  Joyce Maynard

  Home, Doors, People

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• I think there can always be beauty in struggle. I mean, as far as childbirth, I had my son in the hospital, but then I had my daughter at home. There's no doubt that there's a struggling in birth, and a beauty and a horror and fear and joy too.

  Patricia Arquette

  Daughter, Struggle, Mean

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Challenges, World, Minutes

  "'Grey's Anatomy' star Jessica Capshaw puts spotlight on global maternal health care needs" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Yes, we've cut the maternal mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don't count for much if they're not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice - not just on paper. Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.

  Hillary Clinton

  Religious, Cutting, Rights

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