Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.
The process of birth and the growth of human body into a complicated system are still a marvel for me.
No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.
The mind is more powerful than anything. So, during the birth I wasn't thinking about the pain. I was in a meditation state. I was concentrating the whole time, thinking, 'Oh my God, it's time. I am going to meet my baby. What is he going to look like?'
The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.
There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town.
Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.
I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
It's no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea.
The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.
I was young, maybe 4, when I learned where babies came from.
Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.
Birth Matters... It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother's bodies. It's the means from which we enter and feel our first impression of the wider world. For each mother, it is an event that shakes and shapes her to her innermost core. Women's perceptions about their bodies and their babies' capabilities will be deeply influenced by the care they receive around the time of birth.
The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it.
All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!
All birth is unwilling.
What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.
I don't understand why you would want to watch someone giving birth.
When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.
I was born, and the doctor left. And then the nurse is like, 'Doctor, I think there's another one.'
To live is to be slowly born.
If you are lying down to give birth, gravity is not helping you. You know, you stand up and, you know, a baby will basically kind of fall out of you, if you keep walking 'round.
A living thing is born.
