Zazie Beetz Quotes

I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.

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.

I was always interested in midwifery; it was my plan B.

I'm not sure filming a birth is as hard as actual labour, but it's a really long, arduous day!

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

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

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

It's amazing what it opens up in women when you tell them you've just played a midwife.

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

There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of my siblings and me. I assisted her. I helped women give birth to a lot of babies when I was very young.

Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.

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.

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.

When I asked what people would change about their bodies on Twitter, the birthing process was an extremely popular response!

There is nothing private about delivering a child with doctors and nurses surrounding you.

The work I do when I'm not making music is very much about service, helping women give birth or aiding in family planning.

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?'

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

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

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

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

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.'.

All mothers go through the exact same things.