Art Donovan Quotes

With River's birth, nothing went according to plan. My water broke three weeks early, and after 12 hours of labor and Pitocin, I was in incredible pain and still only one-centimeter dilated.

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.

Because I was very big and she was very small, my mother had a horrible birth when I was born. So she always said: 'I'm never having any more kids!'

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky.

I know that I have this platform with our fans and with social media and all of that good stuff. I really hope that people become more aware of premature birth, and I hope there's more that can be done to prevent this.

We see very, very high rates of C-sections, Cesarean sections, in India. Lots of reasons for it, high levels of malnutrition have meant that women have very small pelvic areas often, so if they have larger babies, it's very hard to deliver.

Many premature babies are never given a chance to make it out of the hospital.

I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.

I was born nine months premature.

I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a birth survivor.

On social media, we have a lot of fans. It's so important to me to spread awareness of premature babies and premature birth.

I might not be here if it wasn't for the research and the technology that March of Dimes provided for my family and me.

My back is broken because of the last pregnancy.

I'm working with the March of Dimes to help make sure more babies have the chance of tomorrow.

I came into the world weighing one pound, 14 ounces. My family knows what it's like to go through the struggle of not knowing if your baby is going to be OK.

When I was born, I was born very prematurely so I was very tiny and small. And so, my mom just nicknamed me Pixie, like a little fairy.

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.

Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.

My pregnancy was great, but the last three weeks were manic because my blood pressure was going up and up.