Quotes About Motherhood

So blissful in taking this time for creating all things blossoming new on the horizon ... album, baby & beautiful music to come.

My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.

I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.

She said she hated my children—her own children, Looloo-dirl, her own children!

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

The light of the years to come, to me; and the law would give them into your charge because you are their mother, no matter what kind of a woman you are.

The voices of children are easily silenced by the fear of not being believed. If 3-year-old Michael Smith had somehow miraculously survived, would he have told anyone that his mother tried to drown him? Would anyone have believed him? No one wants to believe that a mother would sacrifice her own child, especially the child.

Borderline mothers have difficulty allowing their children to grow up. The dependency of a newborn can be intensely satisfying to the borderline mother, but as the child becomes increasingly independent, conflict erupts.

Although she can function extraordinarily well in other roles, mothering is the single most daunting task for the borderline female.

Witch mothers are more likely to bring their children for treatment than to seek help for themselves. They project their own pathology onto their child, and often expect the child to be institutionalized. Because the no-good child is the target of the Witch's projections of self-hatred, the mother may wish for the child to be sent away.

Borderline mothers who threaten or attempt suicide keep their children emotionally trapped, and their children may suffer from extreme anxiety even as adults.

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

la opinión común a todos los hombres es que las mujeres nunca sirvieron para otra cosa que para traer hijos e hilar la lana.

Le] couple mère-enfant ne désigne pas une association d'individus mais essentiellement un système de rôles et d'obligations : une formation sociale. De surcroît cette formation sociale est le résultat empirique - en termes d'associations d'individus physiques - d'une structure d'exploitation : le système politique patriarcal.

I must tell you I've just been reborn." "Nicholas, you always think you can do things better than your mother. You can be sure you were born quite adequately on the first occasion.

We planned this beautiful, totally natural, unmedicated delivery. What kind of stupid-ass idea is that? Next time I want the epidural at the moment of conception. Numb for nine months.

Alwyn's mother could not square her identity as a sexualized woman with that of being a mother

I am a jack-of-all-trades. I edit and teach and at times desire to be a clothing designer or an artist (one who doesn't draw or paint or sew) and I write everything but poetry and I am a mother and a social maniac and a misanthrope and a burgeoning self-help guru and a girl who wants to look pretty and a girl who wants to look sexy and a girl who wants to look girly and a woman in her middle forties who wishes not to look like anything at all, who wishes sometimes to vanish.

I always wanted to be a mom.

I'm a lioness. I have four cubs. I'm a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.

Some lactation specialists suggest aiming your nipple toward your baby's nose and then directing it down to the lower part of your baby's upper lip to get him or her to open the mouth very wide. This prevents the lower lip from getting tucked in during nursing.

Once the mouth is open wide, move your baby closer. Do not move your breast toward the baby, and don't push your baby's head into your breast. And be sure not to stuff your nipple into your baby's unwilling mouth—let your baby take the initiative. It might take a couple of attempts before your baby opens wide enough to latch on properly.

The American College of Nurse-Midwives if you're looking for a CNM. Go to acnm.org or mybirthteam.com, or call 240-485-1800.