There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!
I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.
If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it.
I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.
Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.
We will look into the issue of expense-free childbirth broadly.
It's been a good exercise in patience. But I kind of consider this like childbirth ? as soon as the baby is born you forget about all of the pain.
Childbirth is a miracle. No, it's not. . . . It's a chemical reaction, that's all.
The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.
It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.
Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.
She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.
Having a baby is definitely a labor of love.