childbirth quotes

I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.