Quotes About Labor And Delivery

#1. He used to say that life was all about a boy finding the perfect girl; he was lucky enough to have been handed his in a labor and delivery room.

Jodi Picoult

#2. Natural childbirth allows the hormones that have been working for women for thousands of years to fulfill their functions. This is more important than just helping a woman through labor and delivery. Birth-related hormones also affect well-being much later in life.

Janet Schwegel

#3. a mothers labor and delivery never ends, and you just have to keep remembering to breathe

Ann Voskamp

#4. In a way, I realized, every woman risked her life when bringing a child into the world. Labor and delivery were serious business, and not for the faint of heart. Yet down through the centuries women took that risk, willing to trade life for life.

Mindy Starns Clark

#5. a labor and delivery room that contained some very interesting equipment. It made me only slightly less comfortable than that time I got to sit in an actual electric chair. You know, for giggles.

Darynda Jones

#6. Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse ... I've seen ultrasounds ... you know that those babies are real.

Naomi Judd

#7. Mmmm ... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'

Jack Dee

#8. I like my coffee light.

Elizabeth Banks

#9. But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Karl Lagerfeld

#10. If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. You are my Princess and when I say I love you, I mean I fucking LOVE you. I want to take care of you forever. Let me.

Lilly James

#12. It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

Ricky Williams

#13. Seamus shuddered in horror, before he pulled himself together. Determined, he reached between my thighs and shoved hard. Pain, like the fire of a thousand suns, burned through my belly. I tried to squirm away from his hands, using mine to push him away.

A.B. Shepherd

#14. Mickey Mouse is just a rat in suspenders.

Stuart Gibbs

#15. Failing to listen to the woman is one of the biggest mistakes a practitioner can make.

Helen Varney

#16. By adopting, I was not a full-fledged mother in their eyes. I hadn't paid the price of pregnancy, hadn't earned the badge of labor or the award for delivery, and would forever be an outside --an associate member at best. I looked like the other women, but I felt like less of one.

Jana Wolff

#17. My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.

Mario Batali

#18. I was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in a motorcade. It looked to me like a million police cars buzzing around the vehicle in which i, a woman in labor, was riding. And they all followed. Into Elmhurst Hospital and up to the delivery room. They surrounded the hospital.

Assata Shakur

#19. I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do.

Mandy Moore

#20. There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.

Charles Portis

#21. When Baby Boomer women started choosing hotel-like birthing centers over hospital delivery rooms, hospitals quickly wised up. Now even rural hospitals offer well-designed labor-delivery-recovery suites.

Virginia Postrel

#22. I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

Linda Pastan

#23. I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way.

Sarah Wayne Callies