Helen George Quotes

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

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.

It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day.

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 always thought my alternative life, if I wasn't acting, would be to become a midwife. I love women. I want to help them exist.

Madame Lefoux acted as midwife. In her scientific way, she was unexpectedly adept at the job. When the infant finally appeared, she held it up for Alexia to see, rather proudly, as though she'd done all the hard work herself. 'Goodness,' said an exhausted Lady Maccon, 'are babies customarily that repulsive looking?

Whenever my water breaks it'll be like a fire hydrant!

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

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

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

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

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

I think I'm past my due date. I just feel it.

Wrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. It just killed me.

A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan.

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.'

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.

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.

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!

To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.

I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.

If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.