9 Quotes on Childbirth from Books
Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 9 quotes about Childbirth that I underlined from various books. I hope you will like these quotes too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Childbirth Quotes from The Frozen River book by Ariel Lawhon
- It is easy to assume that for a birth to go badly, something specific must go wrong. A breech presentation. A hemorrhage. An infection. I have faced all these difficulties, and more, but it is often the mortal threat of exhaustion that can cause a woman's life to ebb away. There is no condition on earth more draining than that of labor, and few ways to rouse a woman once she has succumbed to exhaustion.
- Labor renders every woman a novice. Every time is the first time, and the only expertise comes from those assembled to help.
- A woman is never more vulnerable than while in labor. Nor is she ever stronger. Like a wounded animal, cornered and desperate, she spends her travail alternately curled in upon herself or lashing out. It ought to kill a woman, this process of having her body turned inside out. By rights, no one should survive such a thing. And yet, miraculously, they do, time and again.
Childbirth Quotes from Lady Tan's Circle of Women book by Lisa See
- Having babies is central to every woman's life. But every pregnancy is a crisis of life or death. Will the mother survive and continue to run the household? Will the baby survive to become a descendant?
- A woman is the only animal on earth who should not deliver her offspring alone, because the baby comes out facedown, making it nearly impossible for a woman to pull it out by herself. A midwife is indispensable, whether you like it or not.
Childbirth Quotes from Yesteryear book by Caro Claire Burke
- No one, certainly no one, had mentioned how ugly childbirth could be, how gruesome and messy. If I was three ounces stupider, I might have expected the stork to drop a baby off at my doorstep, baked to perfection. Of course I'd known, in some rough practical sense, that my body would have to split open for a child to leave it, but I hadn't been remotely prepared for the bald terror of it; hadn't known that my softest and most private patch of skin would rip a full inch; hadn't known the delivery room would smell like iron from all the blood loss, not to mention literal human excrement. I felt like one of those teenage boys shipped off to Normandy for D-Day.
- No one said childbirth was easy, honey. They just said it would be worth it.
Other Childbirth Quotes
- Men like to think that women forget the pain upon seeing the blessed baby. No. A woman forgives the child, and she might even forgive the father. But she never forgets. - The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
- Pregnancy and childbirth aren't particularly fair. Women get the short end of the stick. They have to carry the baby, they endure the pain of delivery, and the time-consuming job of nursing ... and that's only the beginning. - 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand