Quotes About Maternal

In the countries with the best maternal and infant outcomes—the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark—women and babies benefit from lifelong universal healthcare, but that care is markedly different: obstetricians attend only high-risk pregnancies. The vast majority of laboring women get individual support from a midwife, are free to move about and birth in whatever position feels best, and are rarely induced, anesthetized, or cut.

once becoming a mother, a woman might be radicalized in her feminism. She had a greater stake in saving the earth from male politicians. She had a greater stake in education and health, in the environment, in all social policy. She finally understood the way our society makes children and mothers the lowers of priorities. ...... I was hardly mellowed by the maternal transformation. If anything, my feminism grew more fierce.

Polly was all too aware that much of her time on holiday would be spent doing the laundry and the cooking and the child-care and all the other chores that back in London would be shared with her cleaning lady. A holiday with Theo and the children represented two weeks of domestic and maternal drudgery.

It was a festival of maternal love, all day, every day.

Birth control is an important part of women's healthcare. It allows women to plan and time their pregnancies, and reduces preterm births and maternal complications.

Every second minute, a woman or a girl dies in the world due to pregnancy.

I am particularly interested in helping to heal women who have a fistula after their pregnancies.

I want to use my voice to better health care for pregnant women.

If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine.

I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

Rose blanched but complied, earning laughter in return from Dimitri. "Rose Hathaway, notorious rebel, showing her maternal side.

the automatic, fixed-action patterns of these animals work very well the great majority of the time. For example, because only healthy, normal turkey chicks make the peculiar sound of baby turkeys, it makes sense for mother turkeys to respond maternally to that single "cheep-cheep" noise.

Infuse oxytocin into the brain of a virgin rat, and she'll act maternally—retrieving, grooming, and licking pups. Block the actions of oxytocin in a rodent mother,*23 and she'll stop maternal behaviors, including nursing. Oxytocin

Infuse oxytocin into the brain of a virgin rat, and she'll act maternally—retrieving, grooming, and licking pups. Block the actions of oxytocin in a rodent mother,fn6,23 and she'll stop maternal behaviors, including nursing.

So oxytocin is central to female mammals nursing, wanting to nurse their child, and remembering which one is their child.

Two complications illustrate some endocrine principles.fn16 Estrogen contributes to maternal aggression. But estrogen can also reduce aggression and enhance empathy and emotional recognition. It turns out there are two different types of receptors for estrogen in the brain, mediating these opposing effects and with their levels independently regulated. Thus, same hormone, same levels, different outcome if the brain is set up to respond differently.51

Life would be much nicer if one could carry the smells and tastes of the maternal home wherever one pleased.

Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.

Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I turned my mind firmly to the problem at hand.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

Even an imbecile knows that you never come between a grizzly - bear mama and her cub.

If WHO statistics were to be believed, the U.S. had the worst maternal mortality in the industrialized world.

La persona umana ama con entrambe le coscienze, materna e paterna, ad onta del fatto che esse sembrino contraddirsi l'una con l'altra. Se conservasse solo la coscienza paterna diventerebbe dura e disumana. Se conservasse solo quella materna perderebbe la capacità di giudizio e ostacolerebbe se stessa e altri nel loro sviluppo.

I said no more and made off. It is no use quarrelling with excited maternal instincts. They have the moral support of the entire world behind them.