Postnatal Care Quotes

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

I hate babies.

After I had the Caesarean, I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her, I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.

They are very healthy. Yes, they were sucking and breathing on their own and everything when they came out. So there was no need to stay in the hospital. So we took them home the next day.

The process of birth and the growth of human body into a complicated system are still a marvel for me.

I first got sick after I had my daughter, Kimberly, 21 years ago. I'd always been energetic and never had any serious medical problems. Then I got very sick with a high fever. They told me I had mononucleosis. I became pregnant right away with Sean, and after he was born, I never seemed to recover.

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

South Carolina's lack of access to quality maternal health care is pervasive.

You never know what state you're going to be in after giving birth.

How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.

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.

Babies born to women who are infected with hep B - and mothers can carry the virus without their knowledge - will almost certainly be infected if they are not vaccinated within twelve hours of birth.

The work I do when I'm not making music is very much about service, helping women give birth or aiding in family planning.

My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

Pregnancy changed my body; it changed the way I walk.

There are disparities in accessing quality maternity health care in most every country, and most all health systems could and must be improved upon if we want to create healthy families who will thrive.

Access to maternal healthcare is a human right.

As a former fetus ....

I always said, 'Whenever I get pregnant, I'm going to embrace all of the body changes that happen.' My focus has not been on any sort of snap-back or anything like that, because your body won't be the same after giving birth, and if anything, that's something to be celebrated, embraced, and owned.

Nothing could be more important for a child affected by Zika virus than to have continuity of care, seamlessly from before birth to after birth.

I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.

I always think, look at how people were before they were pregnant. If you were a toned, healthy, energetic person, most likely you will be like that again.

I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by 'recovery' from childbirth.