childbirth quotes
"the power and intensity of your contractions cannot be stronger than you, because it is you."
"the parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety."
"birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have."
"300,000 women will be giving birth with you today."
"the same movements that get the baby in, get the baby out."
"you gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop and look fear in the face."
"just as a women's heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth."
"if you lay down, the baby will never come out."
"meconium happens."
"life only demands the strength you possess."
"we cannot prepare for the future without embracing the meaning and the relevance of the baby's perspective on life."
"the knowledge of how to give birth without outside interventions lies deep within each woman. Successful childbirth depends on the acceptance of the process."
"for far too many women pregnancy and birth is something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves."
"if you are an expectant mother, you must eat a good, nutritious, balanced diet every day during your pregnancy. A good diet is the best insurance that your baby will be healthy and strong with a normal weight at birth!"
"birth is not only about making babies. birth is about making mothers...strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength."
"we have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. it's that women are strong."
"birth is an experience that demonstrates that life is not merely function and utility, but form and beauty."
"Women's bodies have near-perfect knowledge of childbirth; it's when their brains get involved that things can go wrong."
"Birth is as safe as life gets."