Childbirth Quotes
Childbirth Quote of the day
Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.
The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.
The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.
Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.
Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental birth. And like childbirth, Wisdom often comes with pain.
There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.
No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception
I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.
Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.
I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.
I think that once you go through childbirth, you can do anything. It's like Wow! I can conquer the world now!
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
I know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions.
Planning your own coming-of-age experience may wither you prematurely, but just think of it this way: If you can get through this, childbirth should be a breeze.
13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.
Ahhhhhhhh. There is nothing natural about natural childbirth. It is as close to a freak accident as anything I can think of. Why I picked a time like this to go off drugs?
In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.
During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.
Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of all, change.
It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.
Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.
I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.
The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.
Ladies, you wake up tomorrow and the newspaper reads Scientists have discovered a way for men to experience childbirth. That would be awesome.
I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?
Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.
She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.
Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.
In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.
O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after childbirth! O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!
It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of 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!
Everybody was upset that Vladimir Putin was missing. He was in Switzerland with his girlfriend. She had a baby in Switzerland because in Russia childbirth is not covered by Putin-care.
There is a largely-ignored healthcare calamity in the United States that sees between two and three women die every day during pregnancy and childbirth.
