Babies being born Quote by Barbara Katz Rothman

“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers--strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.”

— Barbara Katz Rothman

Experience of the phenomenal capacity of our birthing body can give us an enduring sense of our own power as women. Birth is the…

— Sarah J. Buckley

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.

— Barbara Katz Rothman

“Giving birth does not make you a mother. Being there daily in good times and bad to provide, care, comfort, teach, sing, feed, clothe,…

— C. Toni Graham

“For a society that will tinker with any “natural” process—birth, death, aging, noses, or chicken pox—this clinging to the old-fashioned “man and woman make…

— Avital Norman Nathman

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

— Erma Bombeck

All forms of birth--physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional--bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life spirit birthing…

— Amy Wright

Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

— Anonymous

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

— Rajneesh

“All women need practical and emotional support around birth.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

natural birth is full of magnificent, life-changing wisdom.

— Christiane Northrup

They say that the essence of being a woman is to give birth

— Ritu Ghatourey