Shweta Menon Quotes

The first moment I saw my wife breastfeed our daughter minutes after birth, I was hit with a thunderbolt of understanding and awe for the miracle of it all, and I still feel that way.

I can't stop staring at my beautiful new baby.

All parents remember the moment when they first held their children - the tiny crumpled face, an entire new person, emerging from the hospital blanket.

It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.

I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world.

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

When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's so beautiful.' I unwrapped the baby from her blankets. She was average size, with long thin fingers and a random assortment of toes. Her eyes were close set, and she had her father's hooked nose. It looked better on him.

The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

I think it's such a blessing to be able to have a child, and good and bad, whatever you go through, it's so worth it, and it's such an unbelievable time - you have someone growing inside of you!

When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.

I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'

The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens!

The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

Meeting my daughter for the first time was the most special moment of my life. They laid Julia on my chest in the delivery room, and my heart completely melted. She was just so peaceful.

You don't know what love is until you meet your child.

I cannot even begin to express how happy my baby's birth has made me.

I've found the entire process of being pregnant to be such a miraculous, beautiful time.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

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

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

I was there at the birth of my son and had the extraordinary feeling when I first saw him of thinking this was the first person I would willingly die for. I had the same strong feelings when my daughter was born.

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It's difficult to recoup, but still amazing nonetheless. I would have another one.

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

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