Angelina Jolie Quotes

With Ciel and with Rex, I said 'no epidural.' I recovered, I was walking right after I had them, just did a lot of praying all through my pregnancy that they would be healthy and my deliveries would go without a problem. I was really blessed.

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

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

I feel I've learned a lot about [experience of giving birth], and I think it's amazing. Men and women who are ob-gyns are pretty amazing.

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

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'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.

Birth is really judgy, and people get really opinionated. Everyone's entitled to the experience they want.

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!

I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

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.

How may child bearing women be most encouraged and supported in the time of childbearing?

When I was pregnant with my first child, I was 35 years old, and I was working in a pet shop.

I, as a man, don't even pretend to know what a woman goes through during pregnancy.

We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'

From conception to delivery, it has been a great experience. I was determined to give a natural birth.

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.

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

The best gift you can give a baby is a full nine months of pregnancy.

I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

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

There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.

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.

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.