Birthing Experience Quotes

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 wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered!

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

Birth is the epicenter of women's power

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Having my daughter, I screamed for twenty-three hours straight. And that was just during conception.

I learned a long time ago that it doesn't make me less of a woman because my babies come out of a different place. My C-sections have been fine.

During labor the most important thing is to get primal and surrender to the process.

I really enjoy being the child's 'welcoming committee' and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me.

I had such a nurturing team of midwives looking after me with my first little girl, and their support gave me so much confidence as a mother.

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.