Birth

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• "Birth is as safe as life gets." ~ Harriette Hartigan

• “Birth is the begining of death.” ~ Thomas Fuller

• "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 to your time line." ~ Gloria Lemay

• "Babies are such a nice way to start people." ~ Don Herold

• "Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit." ~ Bill Cosby

• "When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." ~ James M. Barrie

• "Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad; babies never are." ~ Louisa May Alcott

• "A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on." ~ Carl Sandburg

• “To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.” ~ Wilson Mizner

• "Just as a woman’s heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth.” ~ Virginia di Orio

• “Having a baby is like taking your lower lips and forcing them over your head.” ~ Carol Burnett

• “Birth is not an emergency. It is simply an emergence.” ~ Jeannine Parvati Baker

• “Through soul-searching and listening more deeply to the women I was working with, I finally understood that women have to prepare for their birth in their heart and soul, not their head. And that giving birth is something a woman does in her body, not in her head.” ~ Pam England

• "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

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

• “I had a jewish delivery. They knock you out with the first pain and wake you up when the hairdresser shows.” ~ Joan Rivers

• “The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.” ~ Lucretius