Top 1200 Natural Childbirth Quotes & Sayings

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

The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.

Give it up for the process that leads to childbirth!

For me I'm natural not because somebody else believes I'm natural, I'm natural because I don't use steroids, I don't use growth hormone, I don't use any of those enhancers. I'm natural in my own right because I don't do that and not because other people accept the fact that I'm natural or not.

Ahhhhhhhh. There is nothing natural about natural childbirth. It is as close to a freak accident as anything I can think of. Why I picked a time like this to go off drugs?

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

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.

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

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

Natural Magick is taken to be nothing else, but the chief power of all the natural Sciences; which therefore they call the top and perfection of Natural Philosophy, and which is indeed the active part of the same; which by the assistance of natural forces and faculties, through their mutual & opportune application, performs those things that are above Human Reason.

I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

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

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

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

She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural) This one's a beast, but way to wonderful to be compared to an animal

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

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present of the natural world: it has no memory of its previous actions, no plans for the future, or underlying purpose.

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.

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

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!

My first experience of having a baby was about as natural as birth can be, and though I didn't know it at the time, it set my feet on a path that eventually led me to become a childbirth author and a midwife.

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 know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions.

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

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

I don't even know what my natural colour is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables.

Relative to oil, however, natural gas is very cheap and very attractive. And I think that natural gas in emerging markets is very attractive. There is very little natural gas infrastructure in places such as China, where there is tremendous demand for natural gas.

The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man such a personally invasive question as "Is your wife having natural childbirth or is she planning to be knocked out?" But someone might ask that of you. No matter how much you wish for privacy, your pregnancy is a public event to which everyone feels invited.

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.

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

I became a passionate seeker of childbirth knowledge.

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are profoundly compatible; that in a beautiful work of imagination the natural should be ideal, and the ideal natural.

What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

It turns out childbirth is really... messy.

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

Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.

Natural childbirth allows the hormones that have been working for women for thousands of years to fulfill their functions. This is more important than just helping a woman through labor and delivery. Birth-related hormones also affect well-being much later in life.

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

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

So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

For my beauty routine, it's kind of complicated. It's not easy at all. I like being natural, but natural is not really natural. To be natural, you need to have really good skin. This is really important.

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