Quotes About Childbirth

There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!

I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.

This talk of exploding spleens scared the hell out of me. I went back to the apartment and told Dominique what the doctor had said and that he had advised me not to participate in the natural childbirth. She thought it all sounded preposterous. "If anybody's going to explode, it's me if I don't have this baby soon.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

Oh Daddy, can't you give her something to make her stop screaming? asked Nick. No. I haven't any anesthetic, his father said. But her screams are not important. I don't hear them because they are not important. -Indian Camp-

My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'

A lot of television shows, when you see births, the baby is coming out, and the wife is freaking, 'You did this to me!' but she is still super beautiful. There's none of the realism that we just went through.

Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.

A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into this world" (John 16:21).

They say men can never experience the pain of childbirth. They can... if you hit them in the goolies with a cricket bat for fourteen hours.

If you don't yell during labor, you're a fool. I screamed. Oh, how I screamed. And that was just during the conception.

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.

You probably wouldn't remember, but that night you had Noah?" he said. "You hunkered down on the side of the road and held my shoulders while you pushed him out.

Labor is the closest a woman may ever be to the threshold between life and death while she is still very much alive.

It's still one of my biggest fears, childbirth, but I'll definitely, definitely want a baby some day.

When 1970s feminism hit the United States, women demanded the right to natural childbirth and to have their husband or another support person in the delivery room. My mother gave birth to me during this time.

My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.

It does appear that in some other cultures the work of motherhood is not left entirely up to one person the way it is here, so a baby can be handed around to many relatives, which gives the mother some blessed relief. Our society tends to elevate pregnancy and childbirth to unrealistic romantic heights then leave women on their own to struggle with the task, making them wonder what they are doing wrong when at times it all seems too much.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

I watched my friend Eleanor give birth, she said. Once you've seen a child born, you realize a baby's not much more than a reconstituted ham and cheese sandwich. Just a little anagram of you and what you've been eating for nine months.

Arré Ahmed!" Amina Sinai yelled, "Janum, the baby! It's coming—bang on time!

They say women have a much higher pain threshold. They say it's because we are the ones who have to go through childbirth. I say it's because women have a much higher everything than most men.

A woman's pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When the mother's diet is insufficient, nutrients are pulled from her own teeth and bone. Women are built to be selfless.