Eartha Kitt Quotes

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

I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.

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

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.

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

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

I am scared of becoming a mother.

When you're pregnant or living with an infant, there's a kind of sacredness around your body that affects everything you do.

I'm doing it. I'm going to become a mom.

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.

It's a very nice thing to have a baby.

I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!

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

I love being pregnant in general.

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.'

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.'.

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

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

Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.

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.

We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son.

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.

I delivered my son. There were other people with me, but I was actively involved.