I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural -… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
“We were born as a free soul. We only become enslaved in the world.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
It's still one of my biggest fears, childbirth, but I'll definitely, definitely want a baby some day. — Maura Higgins Copy Share Image
Natural childbirth scares me. I think before you have natural childbirth you should find out how big the baby is. Three pounds… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
Planning your own coming-of-age experience may wither you prematurely, but just think of it this way: If you can get through this,… — Mimi Pond Copy Share Image
“Discrimination is the most polite word for abuse aka denying equal opportunity by anyone in power based on age, ancestry, color, disability… — Ramesh Lohia Copy Share Image
Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I survived a potentially life-threatening childbirth-related complication after delivering my daughter. I learned that hundreds of thousands of girls and women die… — Christy Turlington Copy Share Image
“The desires for both a good experience and a healthy baby are very much connected, and there is nothing wrong with wanting… — Jennetta Billhimer Copy Share Image
“On this one long, blessed night we refused to worry, allowing only hopes and dreams for the future of the human race,… — A.B. Shepherd Copy Share Image
Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Listen to me. Forget all you saw. Leave it. Take your mind from it. It has nothing to do with you. But… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how… — Poppy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Birth unites women in the power of oneness; the extraordinary gift we deeply share as mothers. Belly dance for birth reflects this… — Maha Al Musa Copy Share Image
13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding. — Frank Oski Copy Share Image
“He carries no burden, he feels no pain. What man, like woman, lies down in the darkness and gets up with child?… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think that once you go through childbirth, you can do anything. It's like Wow! I can conquer the world now! — Lights Copy Share Image