Giving birth Quote by Melody Carlson

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“From diapers on, I felt like there was something not good about me, but it was invisible to everybody but my mother. And whenever…

— Jerry Stahl

“I challenge the popular notions out there that are so often rooted in pseudoscience. I offer comfort to expectant and new mothers as they…

— Amy Tuteur

“I find it fascinating how the supernatural infiltrates your head, even when you reject such concepts. Just as cold germs go about their work,…

— Jason Arnopp

“Newborn babies can't do much on their own- They can't eat or walk or talk on the phone- But every parent is sure their…

— Jennifer Davis

“Soon, we are as naked as the day we were born. Except, y'know, were not covered in blood and attached to our mothers by…

— Fanny Merkin

“Do other mothers behold their newborn sons as I did? Do they all find themselves stopped, breathless, in what they were doing to merely…

— Elizabeth C. Bunce

“Being in the womb was like taking a nine-month bath. I wanted to take a shower, but no matter how hard I kicked, or…

— Jarod Kintz

“Moms were psychic and evil.”

— Gwenda Bond

“The story of my birth that my mother told me went like this: "When you were coming out I wasn't ready yet and neither…

— Sierra D. Waters

Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing.

— Karen Cushman