Birth Trauma Quotes

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

When I was born, the umbilical cord came wrapped around my neck, so when I came out, I wasn't breathing.

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

I had a home birth because I really believe in the body's natural ability to give birth. The medical profession has kind of warped women's minds into thinking we don't know how to birth and we need doctors and epidurals and Pitocin.

When I was born, I had a birth injury in my second and third vertebrae. It gave me what they called spastic paralysis, which is actually cerebral palsy.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water. But it's certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool.

We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.

We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

I was fine, until I was born. And it's been downhill ever since.

... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.

My life failed on the very day I was born.

When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.

I was born dead. Yeah, the umbilical cord was like, floppy baby, the whole thing. Yeah, it was bad.

Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken