Grantly Dick-Read Quotes
- A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge…
- 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…
- Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never previously been aware.…
- No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception
- It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to…
- What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?
- Fear can be overcome only by Faith.
- 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…
- 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 or…