Postpartum Care Quotes

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

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

The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.

A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something.

You always wonder when you get pregnant what projects and opportunities will come in or come knocking.

Women are more likely to have a ruptured uterus if they've had multiple C-sections because there's more scar tissue.

There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'

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

There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.

When I found out I was pregnant, the first thing that had to go was the acne medicine and chemical-filled face washes and lotions. I made sure everything was natural and organic, and I started reading blogs by other pregnant women.

With my first, I gained 40 pounds; in the second, I gained 35, and with Stella, I gained 25. My thing is to get most of your weight off, or at least get into good eating habits and exercise routinely, the sooner the better.

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

When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages.

...thousands of women could be saved each year if they had access to skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth, and access to emergency obstetric care. Most of the interventions they need are simple, affordable, and highly effective.

I am not just pro-birth. I believe in supporting a woman during and after pregnancy.

There are women who literally squeeze a baby out of their bodies or get cut open in major surgery, have a human being, the next generation of the human race pulled from their bodies, and within a couple of weeks have to go back to work, because if they don't, they can't pay their bills. Something's wrong with that.

Breastfeeding is this savage ritual that just reminds you that your body is a cafeteria now.

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.

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.

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.

Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.

I've had great pregnancies, and healthy, beautiful children.

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.

Maternity leave is for women to hide and heal their disintegrating body.

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.