Birth is a rite of passage of women. Their journey should be honored, their rights should be fiercely protected, and their stories should be shared. – Marcie Macari

There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation. -Pamela Nadav

Just as a woman’s heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth. – Virginia Di Orio

A woman in Birth is at once her most powerful, and most vulnerable. But any woman who has birthed unhindered understands that we are stronger than we know. — Marcie Macari

Let choice murmur in your ear And love murmur in your heart. Be ready… here comes life. – Maya Angelou

A new baby is like the beginning of all things – Wonder, Hope, a dream of possibilities. – Edna J. Le Shan

Before you were conceived I wanted you Before you were born I loved you Before you were here for an hour I would have died for you This is the miracle of life.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. – Henry Ward Beecher

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility. – Kate Doulgas Wiggin

I love these little people and it is no slight thing that they, who are so fresh from God, love us. – Charles Dickens

Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. – Elizabeth Stone

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

“when we imagined all of us as once helpless, trusting, naked little creatures, beauty incarnate.”

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”
~Bill Bradley

“A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.”
~Frank A. Clark

 
“Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
~Paul J. Meyer

 
“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life”.
~Wayne Dyer

 
“I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring”. 
~Liz Armbruster

And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more. — Anonymous

At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past . — Isaac Asimov

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. — Dean Koontz

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted. — Benjamin Franklin

 In unlikely places, God frees our hearts to love our neighbors, His children. Inmates, addicts, outcasts. All of them. – Kelli Regan – – Author: Gary Chapman

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends. – Author: Willa Cather

 Life’s nonsense pierces us with strange relation. – Author: Wallace Stevens

 A love ethic presupposes that everyone has the right to be free, to live fully and well. – Author: Bell Hooks

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own. – Author: Robin Boyd

Her take is that I’m just a late bloomer – that I’m taking forever to ruin my life, she’s running out of patience. – Author: Rainbow Rowell

 But as long as negativity is there, use it. Use it as a kind of signal that reminds you to be more present. – Author: Eckhart Tolle

Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I’m not ashamed of my illness. I’ve been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too. – Author: Stanley Victor Paskavich

f we are to heal the planet, we must begin by healing birthing.
Agnes Sallet Von Tannenberg   

Giving birth should be your greatest achievement, not your greatest fear.
Jane Weideman

If a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it.
John H. Kennell, MD 

We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.
Laura Stavoe Harm 

The whole point of woman-centered birth is the knowledge that a woman is the birth power source. She may need, and deserve, help, but in essence, she always had, currently has, and will have the power.
Heather McCue

Just as a woman’s heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth.
Virginia Di Orio 

“The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.”

“Birth isn’t something we suffer, but something we actively do and exult in.”

“There is no force equal to that of a determined woman.”

“The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.”

“There is a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.”

“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers — strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.”

strength we can access in and through birth.”

“Giving birth should be your greatest achievement, not your greatest fear.”

“Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.”

“There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.”

“When you change the way you view birth, the way you birth will change.”

“The purpose exceeds the pain.”