Childbirth Quote by Margaret Mead

“When avoidance of pain becomes the major emphasis of childbirth care, the paradoxical effect is that more women have to deal with pain after…

— Ina May Gaskin

Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of…

— Riane Eisler

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

— Grantly Dick-Read

“Twinge” and “surge” and “pressure” were the euphemisms that a lot of the people in the natural childbirth community had been using for contractions.…

— Julia Kent

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

— Freeman Dyson

“...The premise that birthing, by nature, had to be a painful ordeal was totally unacceptable to me. I could not believe that a God…

— Marie F. Mongan

Fear of pain has resulted in many women losing sight of birth as normal and natural, and of themselves as powerful and capable. Labor…

— Deepak Chopra

I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own…

— Hugh Laurie

People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap in the…

— Colson Whitehead

Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other…

— Sam Brownback

Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.

— Dave Barry

I've found childbirth to be so unique in its ability to completely humble you while also completely empowering you. It reduces you to your…

— Eva Amurri