Mother Quotes by Grantly Dick-Read

“I am persuaded from long years of experience amongst women of many nationalities that good midwifery is essential for the true happiness of motherhood…

— Grantly Dick-Read

Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them.

— Grantly Dick-Read

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

“Faith eliminates fear.”

— Grantly Dick-Read

The women in labor must have NO STRESS placed upon her. She must be free to move about, walk, rock, go to the bathroom…

— Grantly Dick-Read

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

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

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

“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

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

— Grantly Dick-Read

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

Fear can be overcome by faith.

— Grantly Dick-Read

If left alone in labor, the body of a woman produces most easily the baby that is not interfered with by its mother's mind…

— Grantly Dick-Read

“I emphasize this because some of my colleagues, for whose academic attainments I have great respect, argue" 'You assume too much; this is not…

— Grantly Dick-Read

Fear can be overcome only by Faith.

— Grantly Dick-Read