It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must go further. We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical,… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
“I am persuaded from long years of experience amongst women of many nationalities that good midwifery is essential for the true happiness of motherhood – that good midwifery is the birth of a baby in a manner nearest to the natural law and design – and good midwifery, next to wise and healthy pregnancy, sets the pattern of the newborn… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share
Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them. — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
The women in labor must have NO STRESS placed upon her. She must be free to move about, walk, rock, go to the bathroom by herself, lie on her side or back, squat or kneel, or anything she finds comfortable, without fear of being scolded or embarrassed. Nor is there any need for her to be either 'quiet' or 'good.'… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share
Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never previously been… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
“The newborn has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
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