Jessica Raine Quotes

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.

I was always interested in midwifery; it was my plan B.

I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.

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 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.

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.

The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

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

I’ve even delivered a few of their babies. (Wulf) Really? (Cassandra) Oh, yeah. You have to love the days before modern roads, and hospitals when I was up to my elbows in placenta. (Wulf)

I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

When I began to study baby delivery, when I was about to have a baby, I became very into it and fascinated and what our body does and how a mother's body temperature will rise the minute that the baby touches her chest because she needs to get warmer.

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

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

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

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

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

When 1970s feminism hit the United States, women demanded the right to natural childbirth and to have their husband or another support person in the delivery room. My mother gave birth to me during this time.

I wanted to be a 'jungle mom', where you're giving birth and getting up and doing things straightaway.

You always wonder when you get pregnant what projects and opportunities will come in or come knocking.

I had such a nurturing team of midwives looking after me with my first little girl, and their support gave me so much confidence as a mother.

The work I do when I'm not making music is very much about service, helping women give birth or aiding in family planning.

It turns out childbirth is really... messy.

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.

I was always interested in becoming a midwife. Then, at my own birth, I didn't get the support I'd hoped for, and that changed everything. That's why I became a doula. There's such a need.