Mama Matters

Here are a few of my favorite birth quotes. If you have any great ones to add, let’s see them!

Good, bad, fair or unfair every choice you make affects the outcome of your birth! There are no inconsequential actions. -Kim Wildner

The right intervention in the right place is like a beautiful flower, appreciated and valued. But in the wrong place, it’s just a weed. -Unknown

You are constructing your own reality with the choices you make…or don’t make. If you really want a healthy pregnancy and joyful birth, and you truly understand that you are the one in control, then you must examine what you have or haven’t done so far to create the outcome you want. -Kim Wildner

If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle. -Irma Bombeck

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

I think one of the best things we could do would be to help women/parents/families discover their own birth power, from within themselves. And to let them know it’s always been there, they just needed to tap into 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

There is power that comes to women when they give birth. They don’t ask for it, it simply invades them. Accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it. 
Sheryl Feldman