Quotes About Pregnancy And Childbirth

#1. In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.

Katha Pollitt

#2. FACT: Women are up to five times more likely than men to have urinary incontinence problems, primarily due to trauma the body experiences during pregnancy and childbirth.

Cary McNeal

#3. Thousands of women could be saved each year if they had access to skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth, and access to emergency obstetric care. Most of the interventions they need are simple, affordable, and highly effective.

Lee Jong-wook

#4. Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social experiences that, in modern America, just as when abortion was criminalized in the 1870s, serve to restrict women's ability to participate in society on equal footing with men.

Katha Pollitt

#5. 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

#6. Men need women. Women need men.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. 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.

Brigitte Bardot

#8. The holy time establish the holy-event.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Our reality teaches us that, as Christians, we must create a Church of the poor, that we don't need a Church imposed from outside which knows nothing of hunger.

Rigoberta Menchu

#10. Perhaps all the difficulties of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering in the early years wouldn't

Laura Moriarty

#11. I grew up in Mossel Bay in South Africa on the Garden Route. It's really windy there, and I like it. I enjoy links golf a lot.

Louis Oosthuizen

#12. The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.

Aberjhani

#13. Our self- development is all about cultivating the traits that we need to achieve our life purpose, success and to carry out our mission

Sunday Adelaja

#14. The sacred-time will hold my babies in my hand.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Nobody asks about Beethoven's mother's own life - a fairly miserable round of pregnancy, childbirth, and child death. Was Maria Magdalena Keverich van Beethoven put on earth only to produce her wunderkind? Might she have had gifts of her own that she never got to offer the world?

Katha Pollitt

#16. Children are lovable and adorable.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. The health of your future kids does not start with their birth - it starts with you, right now, well before you plan to impregnate your wife.

Pratik Patil

#18. Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don't go over my lines or try to solve the world's problems, I just enjoy the scenery and the wildlife.

Kevin Whately

#19. Books were something that happened to readers. Readers were the victims of books.

Holly Black

#20. Isn't it wonderful to give birth to your own kind?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

Karen Horney

#22. Any references to pregnancy or childbirth are coarse, and should be carefully side-stepped by the truly well-bred, as should intrusive comments on love-affairs.

Josephine Ross

#23. Children see beauty in everything.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Stephen Gaskin

#25. The day of birth is a sacred day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. Pregnancy, childbirth, healing and old age all required gee force. No amount of gengineering by the Biomistresses of the great stations could circumvent that inescapable evolutionary fact.

Jay Lake

#27. Birthday is a glorious day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. $13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

Frank A. Oski

#29. I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I'm not going to live to read all the books I want to read, I remind myself that the important ones find their way to me (Rosanne Cash (Musician/Write)

Rosanne Cash

#30. No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

Grantly Dick-Read

#31. Holy moment is a sacred existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.

Michel Odent

#33. I will hold my babies in my hand at sacred-time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.

Sherry Glaser