Shweta Menon Quotes

I don't understand why you would want to watch someone giving birth.

I delivered my son. There were other people with me, but I was actively involved.

I feel I've learned a lot about [experience of giving birth], and I think it's amazing. Men and women who are ob-gyns are pretty amazing.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

I love being pregnant in general.

I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It's difficult to recoup, but still amazing nonetheless. I would have another one.

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

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

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

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.

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.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn't find it a sacrifice, and I didn't find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.

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!

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

I'm not a great pregnant woman.

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

I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.

You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

I'm pretty sure I don't want a camera in my face when I am in labor.

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.