(111 quotes found)
“Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last”
Charles Dickens
“The hot, moist smell of babies fresh from naps.”
Barbara Lazear Ascher
“Of course you can talk to the baby after the birth and cuddle them and hold them close.”
Pat Felske
“Most of these women are returning to work anywhere from six to 12 weeks after giving birth. There isn't a lot of research out there on women's general postpartum health, and almost nothing specifically looking at working women.”
Pat McGovern
“Child birth is one of the most natural and ancient things to occur, and the fact that 95 percent (of babies) are delivered in the hospital, and a huge percent are C-sections, is rather telling to our detachment from the process.”
Aaron Wolf
“It is almost like giving birth to a newborn baby. I've seen this all before, but only in my mind. And now it's real.”
Tony Teixeira
“[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
“I think these folks have been very real. When you have a birth of a baby, when you have to travel with your work, when you have stress because there's changes of jobs at your household and when you have struggled because your family doesn't want to eat what you want, that is reality.”
Patti Milligan
“Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, so. What did you think?”
Steven Wright
“The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact that the man didn't have to watch.”
Dave Barry