Thom Tillis Quotes

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.

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

The thing that every parent hopes for is that the baby's healthy, I'm healthy. No matter how you feel, that's the most important thing.

In giving to the March of Dimes, my fans can help support vital research and programs to help babies and their families.

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.

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.

All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.

I feel so privileged as a mom to be part of a significant organization like the March of Dimes that works hard to prevent prematurity and helps moms to have healthy babies.

Zika could become the newest flashpoint in America’s debate on abortion. With nearly 1,000 pregnant women in the U.S. infected with Zika and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advising all expectant mothers to be screened for exposure to the virus, the USA is beginning to get a hint about why the issue became so contentious in Latin America this year.

I could foresee some terrific political and legal battles if women find out they have Zika in the later terms of their pregnancy.

The Zika virus invades and disrupts the development of the fetal brain, but the effects on the brains of infants and young children are unknown.

Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

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

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

They are very healthy. Yes, they were sucking and breathing on their own and everything when they came out. So there was no need to stay in the hospital. So we took them home the next day.

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

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.

The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

The best drop of milk for the child--is the milk from its mother's breast.

Some children need help from the day they are born.

People don’t take it [the Zika Virus] seriously…. They haven’t seen any babies with microcephaly, YET!