Favorite Birth Quotes

C H I L D R E N

I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. ~Liz Armbruster

D O U L A

"If a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it." John H. Kennell, MD

G R A T I T U D E

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. - Melody Beattie2

B L I S S

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. Deepak Chopra

IRREPLACABLE

"Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo planes don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devises and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable.” - Carl Sandburg

C R E A T I O N

“Pregnancy is a time of being in touch with the power of creation itself.” –Rahima Baldwin ...

Heal

If we are to heal the planet, we must begin by healing birthing. Agnes Sallet Von Tannenberg

PROFOUND

"...Fish can't see the water they swim in. Birth attendants, be they doctors, midwives or nurses, who have experienced only hospital based, high interventionist, medicalised birth cannot see the profound effect their interventions are having on the birth." - Dr. Marsden Wagner

O P E N

Birth is all about opening. It opens a mother's body, but it also opens her heart and her mind. — Laurie Fremgen

Strong Women

We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong.
Laura Stavoe Harm

U T E R U S

"There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we" — Ina May Gaskin

STRONG MOTHERS

“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers ~ strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.” Barbara Katz Rothman

FIT for BIRTH

"Childbirth was probably easier for most women in early cultures, especially in hunter-gatherer societies, where everyone was accustomed to physical labor and supple and fit from daily activity." Suzanne Arms

POWER of BIRTH

“When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing to assume responsibility for this, we will reclaim the power of birth and help move technology where it belongs–in the service of birthing women, not their master.” –Christiane Northrup

R O S E S

"Attending births is like growing roses. You have to marvel at the ones that just open up and bloom at the first kiss of the sun, but you wouldn't dream of pulling open the petals of the tightly closed buds and forcing them to blossom." ~Gloria Lemay