Top 182 Childbirth Quotes & Sayings

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

You can equate our music to childbirth. It's brutal and harsh, but there's still a beautiful thing occurring.

Give it up for the process that leads to childbirth!

The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?

I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.

There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.

It turns out childbirth is really... messy.

People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap in the two because they are both pure agony.

Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

I may have been through the pain of childbirth three times, but I'm incredibly nervous about having my upper ear pierced.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

War and armed conflict disproportionately affect women and can turn what is supposed to be a joyous and beautiful experience - childbirth - into a horrific or even fatal one.

Protecting the lives of women in childbirth and in their postpartum months should be a common priority.

Ladies, you wake up tomorrow and the newspaper reads Scientists have discovered a way for men to experience childbirth. That would be awesome.

Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

Mimicking childbirth on 'Grey's' has taken the mystery out of it.

In an industrialized country as advanced as the United States, no mother should have the fear of dying during childbirth or in the following months.

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

I became a passionate seeker of childbirth knowledge.

Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never previously been aware. To such a woman, childbirth is a monument of joy within her memory. She turns to it in thought to seek again an ecstasy which passed too soon.

When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.

Natural childbirth scares me. I think before you have natural childbirth you should find out how big the baby is. Three pounds -- natural childbirth. Anything over three pounds -- heroin.

Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

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

Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.

'Singin' in the Rain' and childbirth are two of the hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.

Childbirth is no more a miracle then eating food and a turd coming out of your ass.

It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.

It's still one of my biggest fears, childbirth, but I'll definitely, definitely want a baby some day.

To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.

It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth.

There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!

In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth.

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.

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.

I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of a book; it's like childbirth. And, like childbirth, one forgets the pains immediately so that when you come to write another one you dare to take it up again. Some precious anesthesia sees you through.

Menopause, perimenopause, childbirth and breast-feeding can all cause a woman's sex drive to shut down.

I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

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

O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after childbirth! O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!

The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.

I think that once you go through childbirth, you can do anything. It's like Wow! I can conquer the world now!

Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

But where did this veneration of childbirth come from? I missed that meeting. Childbirth is wonderful, childbirth is a miracle. Wrong. It's no more a miracle than eating food and a turd coming out your ass.

I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.

There is a largely-ignored healthcare calamity in the United States that sees between two and three women die every day during pregnancy and childbirth.

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.