Quotes About Birth

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Water birth is one of many lovely ways to enter the world. ~ Judy Edmunds

The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety. ~ Sarah Buckley

The effort to separate the physical experience of childbirth from the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of this event has served to dis-empower and violate women. ~ Mary Rucklos Hampton

The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women. ~ Stephen Gaskin

We have a secret in our culture, it's not that birth is painful, it's that women are strong. ~ Laura Stavoe Harm

The knowledge of how to give birth without outside interventions lies deep within each woman. Successful childbirth depends on an acceptance of the process. ~ Anonymous

We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down. ~ Michel Odent

Only with trust, faith, and support can the woman allow the birth experience to enlighten and empower her. ~ Claudia Lowe

Natural childbirth has evolved [was designed] to suit the species, and if mankind chooses to ignore her advice and interfere with her workings we must not complain about the consequences. We have only ourselves to blame. ~ Margaret Jowitt

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have. ~ Robin Lim

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception. ~ Grantly Dick-Read

Birth is an experience that demonstrates that life is not merely function and utility, but form and beauty. ~ Christopher Largen

Women today not only possess genetic memory of birth from a thousand generations of women, but they are also assailed from every direction by information and misinformation about birth. ~ Valerie El Halta

One is constantly having to balance the high expectations of modern health care with the need to respect the human soul. This is especially so with birth. ~ Benig Mauger

There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth. ~ Penelope Leach

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence. ~ Smiley Blanton

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

Having a highly trained obstetrical surgeon attend a normal birth is analogous to having a pediatric surgeon babysit a healthy 2-year-old. ~ Marsden Wagner

There is power that comes to women when they give birth. They don't ask for it, it simply invades them. Accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it. ~ Sheryl Feldman

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