Monica Potter Quotes

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.

We decided to have the baby at home because we wanted it to be a natural birth, and it turns out that it was 30 hours of natural. Eight hours of pushing - that's the part that men don't understand. Women go, 'Oh, dear, oh, dear God, eight hours of pushing?' And the men are like, 'Okay, eight hours of pushing.'

Labor is really going to hurt.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!

Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.

It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.

If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.

A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, 'Oh! I have a baby!' So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me.

I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.

Personally, I'd have a baby just for the epidural.

My mother was in labour for two full days before having me on a sunny August afternoon. She went into labour on the 7th, and I chose to make my big entrance on the 9th.

I have a whole new perspective on pregnancy and motherhood now that I'm experiencing it. Just because it's so hard and so confusing and so exciting. Women are so amazing that their bodies can do this and that they're strong enough to do this. I can't believe almost every woman goes through this, because it's so hard.

Having my daughter, I screamed for twenty-three hours straight. And that was just during conception.

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

my cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception.

After about five hours of pushing, my midwife and my birthing assistant said, 'You know, we have a few suggestions.' And I was like, 'Really? After five hours of pushing you have a few suggestions? You couldn't have told me five minutes in?'

I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?

I think I'm past my due date. I just feel it.