Birth Quote by Michel Odent

...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.

— Michel Odent

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesn't have of given birth to another human being.

— Peter Kreeft

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

— Peter Kreeft

PREPARED CHILDBIRTH: A contradiction in terms.

— Nikhil Saluja

Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she…

— Emily James Smith Putnam

“A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to…

— John Stevenson

Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she's going to lose her baby or…

— Hillary Clinton

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

Birth is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such…

— Elizabeth Noble

I believe every woman has the right to any birth experience she wants, wherever she chooses and with whatever care provider she's comfortable. It's…

— Ricki Lake

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

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