“Many Western doctors hold the belief that we can improve everything, even natural childbirth in a healthy woman. This philosophy is the philosophy of people who think it deplorable that they were not consulted at the creation of Eve, because they would have done a better job.” - Kloosterman (ha ha!)
"In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Giving birth entails enabling the mother rather than the persons in attendance to be central to the arrival of her child. Even when the arrival, as is sometimes true, must be effected surgically.” - Ruth W. Lubic
“To witness the birth of a child is our best opportunity to experience the meaning of the word miracle.” - Paul Carvel
"You do not need a vaginal exam to have a baby. I am serious. They will still come out." - Mama Birth
“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” - Elizabeth Stone
“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers ~ strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.” - Barbara Katz Rothman
“Babies are bits of star-dust blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star.” - Larry Barretto
“Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new-born child?” - Caroline Norton
“Birth is an experience that demonstrates that life is not merely function and utility, but form and beauty.” - Christopher Largen
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