"birth is not only about making babies. birth is about making mothers...strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength."

-Barbara Katz Rothman

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“midwives see birth as a miracle and only mess with it if there’s a problem; doctors see birth as a problem and if they don’t mess with it, it’s a miracle!”

–Barbara Harper 

 

"women's bodies have near-perfect knowledge of childbirth; it's when their brains get involved that things can go wrong."

-Peggy Vincent

 

"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."

-Sarah Buckley

 

"300,000 women will be giving birth with you today."

 

"the same movements that get the baby in, get the baby out."

-Ina May Gaskin

 

“if a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it.”

–John H. Kennell, MD

 

"you gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop and look fear in the face."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

 

"birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have."

-Robin Lim

 

"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."

-Virginia Di Orio

 

"if you lay down, the baby will never come out."

native american saying

 

"meconium happens."

-unknown

 

"life only demands the strength you possess."

David Hammarskjold

 

"we cannot prepare for the future without embracing the meaning and the relevance of the baby's perspective on life."

-Michel Odent, MD

 

"the knowledge of how to give birth without outside interventions lies deep within each woman. successful childbirth depends on the acceptance of the process."

-Suzanne Arms

 

"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."

-Sheila Kitzinger

 

"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!"

-Dr.Brewer

 

"birth is an experience that demonstrates that life is not merely function and utility, but form and beauty."

-Christopher Largen

 

"birth is as safe as life gets."

-Harriette Hartigan

 

"there is power that comes to women when they give birth. they don't ask for it, it simply invades them. accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it."

-Sheryl Feldman

 

“the first intervention in birth that a healthy woman takes is when she walks out the front door of her home in labor. from that first intervention, all others will follow.”

-Michael Rosenthal, OB/GYN