Delivery Room Quotes

I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.

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

Meeting my daughter for the first time was the most special moment of my life. They laid Julia on my chest in the delivery room, and my heart completely melted. She was just so peaceful.

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?'

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

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.

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

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.

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

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.

There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway.

Any time I go to a hospital, the doctors treat me like an equal, and I'm terrified I'll be in the delivery room, and the doctor will say, 'Noah. Noah, why don't you get a hand in here?' and I'll pass out or throw up and be horribly embarrassed.

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

I feel like if you are with someone through the process of pregnancy and delivery, if nothing else, there is such an incredible amount of respect that would lead into some sort of love in one way or another.

On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.

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

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.

Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.

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.

There is nothing private about delivering a child with doctors and nurses surrounding you.

I was born, and the doctor left. And then the nurse is like, 'Doctor, I think there's another one.'

With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

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

Madame Lefoux acted as midwife. In her scientific way, she was unexpectedly adept at the job. When the infant finally appeared, she held it up for Alexia to see, rather proudly, as though she'd done all the hard work herself. 'Goodness,' said an exhausted Lady Maccon, 'are babies customarily that repulsive looking?