10 Powerful Birth Quotes for New Moms

Birth is a spiritual and emotional experience, just as much as a physical one. Check out these 10 birth empowerment quotes to get ready for your birth!

  1. Mothers need to know that their care and their choices won’t be compromised by birth politics. – Jennifer Rosenburg

  2. There is a 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

  3. In this way, every birth is a natural birth: each of us is part of nature, nor separate from it, and nature is always stunning in its variety. Your birth, then, is part of the natural world, however it unfolds. – Lauralyn Curtis

  4. The power and intensity of your contractions cannot be stronger than you, because it is you. – Unknown

  5. Birth is not a cerebral event; it is a visceral-holistic process which requires all of your self – body, heart, emotion, mind, spirit. – Baraka Bethany Elihu

  6. Labour is not about dilation. Your body knows how to give birth whether or not you ever have a pelvic exam during labour. Birthing women need encouragement to trust their bodies, and to be the stars of their own labours. – The Doula Guide to Birth

  7. My body opens, my mind quiets, my baby descends.– Unknown

  8. The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.– Rajneesh

  9. Just as a woman’s heart knows how to pump, her lungs to fill with air, and her hand to pull back from fire, so her body knows how to birth.– Virginia Di Orio

  10. No woman should ever feel guilty about the choices she makes regarding childbirth, breastfeeding, or the manner in which she cares for her baby.– Amy Tuteur, MD

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