Birthing Quotes

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  • The cause I am most passionate about is natural birthing. I had my son at home, and it was the most primal, intuitive, empowering, and loving experience I've ever had.

    "NCIS: New Orleans Actor Zoe McLellan: The Inspiration Equation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know God the birthing mother. A world that does not preserve the planet, does not know God the creator. A world that does not honor the spirit of compassion, does not know God the spirit. God the lawgiver, God the judge, God the omnipotent being have consumed Western spirituality and, in the end, shriveled its heart.

  • It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their role should be to protect the emotional state of pregnant women

  • The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal.

  • People never sing...except in the bathroom. Birthing women also make their natural sounds next to running bath water. There is something about the power of water. People are drawn to water, spas, and sacred streams. Women in labor are drawn to water, too.

  • Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

    Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press
  • 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 (1956). “Love or perish”
  • Menoeceus is a great name. (Astrid) For an old man or a feminine hygiene product. Not for my son. And next time I get to name the kid and it won’t be something that sounds like meningitis. (Zarek) You keep that up and next time you’ll be the one birthing it, and don’t mess with me, bucko, I have connections in that department. A pregnant man is not an impossibility in my neighborhood. (Astrid)

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

  • Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet birthing itself.

    Linda Hogan (1996). “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World”, p.106, Simon and Schuster
  • Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.

    Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press
  • I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absorb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattle and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care.

    Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.31, Pan Macmillan
  • Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

    Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.41, University of Missouri Press
  • Experience of the phenomenal capacity of our birthing body can give us an enduring sense of our own power as women. Birth is the beginning of life; the beginning of mothering, and of fathering. We all deserve a good beginning.

  • If men were in charge of carrying and birthing our babies, we'd have a lot fewer people on Earth, because we'd only do it once- I can promise you that!

    Phil Robertson, Mark Schlabach (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.170, Simon and Schuster
  • All forms of birth--physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional--bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life spirit birthing all, the seen and the unseen.

  • Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces. In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist.

    Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Spiritual Midwifery”, p.270, Book Publishing Company
  • Waking your kids up for school the first day after a break is almost as much fun as birthing them was.

  • I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

  • 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 (1989). “Your Baby & Child: From Birth to Age Five”, Alfred A. Knopf
  • There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.

  • Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

  • Fear can be overcome only by Faith.

    Grantly Dick-Read (1950). “The birth of a child: obstetric procedure in normal chidbirth for those who attend women in labor”
  • Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

  • While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.

  • It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this sense of timing, that he or she respect... periods of receptivity as part of the mystery of creativity and creation.

    Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.

  • From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.

    Barbara Lazear Ascher (1987). “Playing after dark”, Harpercollins
  • Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

    Brown Daily Herald, March 24, 1995.
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