A Few Quotes

Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.
--Augustine

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
--Mother Teresa

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
--Mahatma Gandhi

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

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.
--Maya Angelou

Attending births is like growing roses. You have to marvel at the ones that just open up and bloom at the first kiss of the sun but you wouldn't dream of pulling open the petals of the tightly closed buds and forcing them to blossom to your time line.
--Gloria Lemay

Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD: and a reward from Him.
--Psalms 127:3

Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of our greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.
--Mother Teresa

Ask me for strength and I will lend not only my hand, but also my heart.
--Unknown

Babies are such nice ways to start people.
--Unknown

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
L. I. Sweet

The knowledge of how to give birth without outside interventions lies deep within each woman. Successful childbirth depends on an acceptance of the process.
--Unknown

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.
--Unknown

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

You are a midwife, assisting at someone else's birth. Do good without show or fuss. Facilitate what is happening rather than what you think ought to be happening. If you must take the lead, lead so that the mother is helped, yet still free and in charge. When the baby is born, the mother will rightly say: "We did it ourselves!"
--from The Tao Te Ching

It is no small thing that they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
--Charles Dickens

Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; He rises to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!
--Isaiah 30:18

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart.
--Helen Keller

The woman about to become a mother, or with her newborn infant upon her bosom, should be the object of trembling care and sympathy wherever she bears her tender burden or stretches her aching limbs…. God forbid that any member of the profession to which she trusts her life, doubly precious at that eventful period, should hazard it negligently, unadvisedly or selfishly.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other, the tranquil sky reflected on the face of the mother nursing her child.
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety.
--Sarah Buckley

Remember. Meconium happens
--Unknown