Liya Kebede Quotes

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

In some countries, as many as 91 percent of women have no one at their side to assist them during labor and delivery.

It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth.

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

I think that there's a real sense in which pregnancy should be something that you do with your doctor, but I think that for a lot of women the time you have with your doctors is limited and it can be difficult to get all of the answers to your questions.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.

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

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

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

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.

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.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

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.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

I quote the following statement which I saw the other day: "We have lost in all the wars waged in this country since the Declaration of Independence, 244,000 men, killed in battle, and in the past twenty-five years we have lost 375,000 mothers in child birth." Prenatal care in the early months is vitally important and we should do all we can to educate young mothers to go to a doctor if they can afford it, if not to a free clinic to be taught how care for themselves. This is necessary not only for mothers but the babies. With proper care before birth, a child will come into world stronger and healthier.

Access to maternal healthcare is a human right.

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

Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.

It's true what they say, and I am now a firm believer in the fact that every pregnancy is different for every woman!