Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.
I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
Whether you plan to labor with an epidural or the Pitocin Fairy pins you down or you end up having an emergency C-section, there are still choices you can make throughout your entire birth experience that allow you to feel some control over what is probably the most dramatic day of your life.
When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.
Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.
Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
Every man should see the birth of his children.
Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.
Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.
The experience of giving birth itself made me feel more womanly.
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 have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless!
To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.
When I first held my daughter, right after she was born, I felt like it was the moment I'd been waiting my whole life for, and it just felt even more miraculous than I ever could have imagined.
My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.
Birth Matters... It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother's bodies. It's the means from which we enter and feel our first impression of the wider world. For each mother, it is an event that shakes and shapes her to her innermost core. Women's perceptions about their bodies and their babies' capabilities will be deeply influenced by the care they receive around the time of birth.
You never know what state you're going to be in after giving birth.
I was there at the birth of my son and had the extraordinary feeling when I first saw him of thinking this was the first person I would willingly die for. I had the same strong feelings when my daughter was born.
Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it.
Once my husband said to me, 'I'm going to have some coffee. Do you want me to put some hot water on for you?' I thought that was the least he could do considering I was giving birth.
