Jasmine Guinness Quotes

I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks.

It is the patriotic duty of women to bear four children.

… men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this [childbirth] very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children, why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.

I love being a mom and having two kids. But I've had two C-sections, and I have suffered enough. That's my favourite mantra when it comes to motherhood.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny.

We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.

I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

The best gift you can give a baby is a full nine months of pregnancy.

If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.

I think when I was pregnant with my first child - he's about 10 or 11 now - I first noticed changes in my skin, which can make you panic a bit. I had a bit of melasma.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant.

My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.

My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time.

Giving birth to triplets at the age of forty-three is no walk in the park, but I had little choice. I got married at the young age of forty, and both my husband, Shirish, and I were keen to start a family soon.

I wanted to talk to a lot of women about their experiences along the path to motherhood - or along the path to not being a mother.

It turns out childbirth is really... messy.

I did marry, I did get pregnant, but as I was giving birth, my daughter and I almost died. We were rushed to the hospital. I had an emergency cesarean and in that moment, in the emergency room, I felt my grandmother come to me. She was with me and when my daughter was born, instead of naming her Hailey, I named her Lucy after my grandmother. Hailey lives in the pages of my books.

My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. So...if [a cesarean] doesn't happen, I'll be like, 'Epidural, please!' Hopefully my athletic abilities will take over.