Gisele Bundchen Quotes

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.'

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

I had both my children at home. It came naturally to me.

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological.

At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother.

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn't find it a sacrifice, and I didn't find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesn't have of given birth to another human being.

I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is doing - creating a child - it just blows my mind. I'm in awe of the process and science.

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

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

I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

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.

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

It's scary having a baby, especially as a first-time mother. I think a lot of women can relate to having a moment during the process where you're like, 'You know what? No thanks, I don't want to do this anymore.'

I wanted to be a 'jungle mom', where you're giving birth and getting up and doing things straightaway.

Childbirth and being pregnant is something that I've always wanted. I feel like you feel the most feminine; you look the most feminine.

In the spring of 1978, when my parents were 23, my mother gave birth to me on their friend Robert's farm in Oregon with the help of two midwives. The labor and delivery took three hours, start to finish.

I don't understand why you would want to watch someone giving birth.

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.

Pregnancy is magical, I've never felt more connected to my body.

Women are strong. We have babies. We do it all.

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.