Labor Experience Quotes

My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. So...if [a cesarean] doesn't happen, I'll be like, 'Epidural, please!' Hopefully my athletic abilities will take over.

My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.

My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'

We found a great rhythm. Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJ-ing this Brazilian music.

What most women live in, is fear of the next contraction, or they're reliving the pain of the one they just had. And nature really builds in these breaks, if you can be in the present and not feel the pain and not sort of anticipate the pain to come.

I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and push and finally the baby pops out...to tell you the truth I don't even rember that much about it except there was a very nice guy standing over me and every time a strong contraction started he gave me a whiff of gas.

I had, like, four Sigur Ros records on my playlist when I was in labor.

I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.

It slightly annoys me when people assume that I've never worked a day in my life. I've held many jobs, I've worked since I was 15.

There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.

Auditioning for television shows - to find a guy who has a lot of experience as a laborer is a bit of an anomaly. We do exist. I know several other actors who have made their living, instead of a waitress job, framing houses or blacktopping roads.