“Birth is the beginning of death”
Thomas Fuller
“We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.”
Jean Kerr
“I was famous from birth”
Peter Fonda
“My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.”
Chanakya
“In women who are pregnant, it may make it more likely to have premature babies or have low birth weight babies, ... And in everyone, you can have less energy, you may be more tired and irritable, perhaps feel cold.”
National Center
“[For instance, there is a direct link between infant mortality and premature birth. Clearly the more premature an infant is when he is born, the greater likelihood of complications. In fact, according to the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services National Center for Health Statistics, complications stemming from short gestation and low birth weight are the second leading causes of infant mortality in the United States. Ironically, the advanced medical technologies used in the United States tend to increase our infant mortality rate, not decrease it. In the United States, advanced technologies and procedures have made it more practical in recent years for medical professionals to attempt to save severely premature infants. Such attempts do not always succeed, adding to the rate of infant mortality.] Resuscitation is more likely to be attempted on extremely premature babies born in the United States than in many other countries, ... The extremely premature babies on whom resuscitation is unsuccessful are then counted as infant deaths, whereas they are counted as fetal deaths when resuscitation has not been attempted.”
John Abramson
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