More Birth Quotes
Quotes About Birth - Part II

Here are more birth quotes...be inspired!

To leave a comment or review about more birth quotes ~ Click Here

More birth quotes ~ Read others' comments and reviews.

Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear. ~ Jane Weideman

You are constructing your own reality with the choices you make...or don't make. If you really want a healthy pregnancy and joyful birth, and you truly understand that you are the one in control, then you must examine what you have or haven't done so far to create the outcome you want. ~ Kim Wildner

If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished every moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle. ~ Irma Bombeck

If we are to heal the planet, we must begin by healing birthing. ~ Agnes Sallet Von Tannenberg

We are made to do this work and its not easy...I would say that pain is part of the glory, or the tremendous mystery of life. And that if anything, it's a kind of privilege to stand so close to such an incredible miracle. ~ Simone

If a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it. ~ John H. Kennell

I think one of the best things we could do would be to help women/parents/families discover their own birth power, from within themselves. And to let them know it's always been there, they just needed to tap into it. ~ John H. Kennell

The whole point of woman-centered birth is the knowledge that a woman is the birth power source. She may need, and deserve, help, but in essence, she always had, currently has, and will have the power. ~ Heather McCue

Just as a woman's heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth. ~ Virginia Di Orio

Mothers need to know that their care and their choices won't be compromised by birth politics. ~ Jennifer Rosenberg

If I don't know my options, I don't have any. ~ Diana Korte

Women's bodies have near-perfect knowledge of childbirth; it's when their brains get involved that things can go wrong. ~ Peggy Vincent

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 ... To such a woman childbirth is a monument of joy within her memory. She turns to it in thought to seek again an ecstasy which passed too soon. ~ Grantly Dick-Read

Natural childbirth allows the hormones that have been working for women for thousands of years to fulfill their functions. This is more important than just helping a woman through labor and delivery. Birth-related hormones also affect well-being much later in life. ~ Janet Schwegel

In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has gained. We are left with the physical husk; the transcending significance has been drained away. In doing so, we have reached the goal which is perhaps implicit in all highly developed technological cultures, mechanized control of the human body and the complete obliteration of all disturbing sensations. ~ Sheila Kitzinger

Childbirth is a time when a woman's power and strength emerge full force, but it is also a vulnerable time, and a time of many changes presenting opportunities for personal growth. ~ Annemarie Van Oploo

I have personally come to believe that childbirth is a blessing to women sent straight from God. I mean, in its purest form, birth is the most fantastic orgasm married with a miracle! What more heavenly gift could there be? ~ Laurie Annis Morgan

Attending births is like growing roses. You have to marvel at the ones that just open up and bloom at the first kiss of the sun but you wouldn't dream of pulling open the petals of the tightly closed buds and forcing them to blossom to your time line. ~ Gloria Lemay

Midwives see birth as a miracle and only mess with it if there's a problem; doctors see birth as a problem and if they don't mess with it, it's a miracle! ~ Barbara Harper

Every [hospital] intervention is a lesson in who really owns your body and your baby's body. ~ Jock Doubleday

Many Western doctors hold the belief that we can improve everything, even natural childbirth in a healthy woman. This philosophy is the philosophy of people who think it deplorable that they were not consulted at the creation of Eve, because they would have done a better job. ~ Kloosterman

Treating normal labors as though they were complicated can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~ Rooks

The truth for women living in a modern world is that they must take increasing responsibility for the skills they bring into birth if they want their birth to be natural. Making choices of where and with whom to birth is not the same as bringing knowledge and skills into your birth regardless of where and with whom you birth.

Unfortunately, the role of obstetrics has never been to help women give birth. There is a big difference between the medical discipline we call "obstetrics" and something completely different, the art of midwifery. If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them. ~ Michel Odent

The best way to avoid a cesarean is to stay out of the hospital. ~ Brooke Sanders Purves

There is no scientific evidence that doing over 10 percent of births with a cesarean improves the outcome for the woman or improves the outcome for the baby. ~ Marsden Wagner

Only about 15% of medical interventions are supported by solid scientific evidence...This is partly because only 1% of the studies in medical journals are scientifically sound and partly because many treatments have not been assessed at all. ~ Richard Smith

Reluctant doctors like to believe that they haven't much influence over their patients, but that is clearly not the case. Several studies have found that when doctors genuinely encouraged women to have VBACs, most of them did, and when they said nothing or acted neutral, most women didn't. Finally, when obstetricians discouraged VBAC in women who wanted to try it, none of them did. ~ Henci Goer

Women's strongest feelings [in terms of their birthing], positive and negative, focus on the way they were treated by their caregivers. ~ Annie Kennedy & Penny Simkin

A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and lose; in the second you don't fight because you know you can't win. However, in the highest level of power differential, your preferences are so manipulated that you act against your own interests, but you are content. Elective repeat cesarean exemplifies that highest level. ~ Henci Goer

More Birth Quotes: Reviews

Any thoughts? A comment or a story? A suggestion? Share with us!