Helen Skelton Quotes

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

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 got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

I had both my children at home. It came naturally to me.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

I've been beaten, I've been bruised, I was left for dead as well.

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother.

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.

I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.

I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.

When you become a mother, it's your mission in life to protect your child. I therefore can't imagine what a hell it must be crossing the sea with a crying child on your lap without any certainty of making it to the other side alive.

In the spring of 1978, when my parents were 23, my mother gave birth to me on their friend Robert's farm in Oregon with the help of two midwives. The labor and delivery took three hours, start to finish.

There were moments where I was called many derogatory names. I've gotten into a couple of fights. People have jumped me. You know, I've had a lot of things that have happened to me, but I look past those things now.

You know, I've been hit with a Greb boot in the face and I've been spat on. And my kids light up when they hear these stories. It really takes their minds off their troubles.

I was actually born in the front bedroom while my dad sat on the wall outside, feeling sick. Twenty minutes after my mother gave birth, she went downstairs and made my old man a cup of tea.

So many people have been abused. It's not rare; it's a very common human experience, and we survive.

You know I could get hit with a baseball bat and it don't mean nothing.

I'm pretty chill, but once birth starts, I go the opposite of chill.