Danica McKellar Quotes

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!

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.

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.'

I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.

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.

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

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

We're going to do a natural birth. At first she was like, 'We should do it at home,' and I said, 'Look, either way, when you go into labor, I will be checking into a hospital... so if you want to come along, come along.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

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.

It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.

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.

Mimicking childbirth on 'Grey's' has taken the mystery out of it.

My big thing is I think women should birth their babies, as long as they're healthy and their doctor says it's OK, however they want, whether that means in the hospital with no drugs, at home with an epidural, elective C-section, whatever.

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

It turns out childbirth is really... messy.

If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

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?'

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?

My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.

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.

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

I had a baby with no pain medicine, mainly because most people I talked to didn't think I'd be able to do it. So there!

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