Poppy Montgomery Quotes

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 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 turns out childbirth is really... messy.

After about five hours of pushing, my midwife and my birthing assistant said, 'You know, we have a few suggestions.' And I was like, 'Really? After five hours of pushing you have a few suggestions? You couldn't have told me five minutes in?'

I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.

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.

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

Mimicking childbirth on 'Grey's' has taken the mystery out of it.

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

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

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

We both gaze down at my swollen tummy for a while. I still can't quite get my head round the fact that there's a baby inside my body. Which has got to come out... somehow. OK, let's not go there. There's still time for them to invent something.

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

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

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

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.

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

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

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

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.

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

The mind is more powerful than anything. So, during the birth I wasn't thinking about the pain. I was in a meditation state. I was concentrating the whole time, thinking, 'Oh my God, it's time. I am going to meet my baby. What is he going to look like?'

With Ciel and with Rex, I said 'no epidural.' I recovered, I was walking right after I had them, just did a lot of praying all through my pregnancy that they would be healthy and my deliveries would go without a problem. I was really blessed.

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.