Great Quotes
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What a wonder it is-this miracle [of birth] that happens
Every day and every hour! Only the unusual strikes us more.
God is always doing wonders.
George MacDonald
We are made to do this work and its not easy...I would say that pain is part of the glory, or the tremendous mystery of life. And that if anything, it's a kind of privilege to stand so close to such an incredible miracle.Simone in Klasson 2001
Just as a woman's heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth.
Virginia Di Orio
A woman giving birth to a child has pain because
her time has come; but when her baby is born she
forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child
is born into the world
John 16:21
Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile…initially scared me to death.
Betty Bender
If a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it.
John H. Kennell, MD
God raises the level of the impossible
Corrie Ten Boom
What's done to children, they will do to society.
Karl Menninger
My grace is sufficient for you,
for my power is made perfect in weakness
2 Corinthians 12:9
300,000 women will be giving birth with you today.
Relax and breathe and do nothing else.
Labor is hard work, it hurts and you can do it.
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So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed,
for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand
Isaiah 41:10
I lift my eyes up to the hills-where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.
He will not let your foot slip-he who watches over you will not slumber;
…The Lord watches over you-the Lord is your shade at your right hand;
The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
The Lord will keep you from harm-he will watch over your life; the Lord
will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.
Psalm 121
"As I recently spent an hour watching the highlights of a triathlon event on television, I could hardly believe my eyes. Nearly 1,000 men and women traveled all the way to Hawaii to compete in a race that required them to swim 2.5 miles in the Pacific Ocean (that’s 200 lengths in an Olympic-sized pool), then run out of the water to change and cycle 112 miles on a bike, only to return back to the starting point, change again, and run a 26-mile marathon.
What a testimony to the strength and endurance of the human body. Yet today many women worry about their bodies giving birth to a baby-a normal physiological function for which we were specifically designed- even without our participation in any type of voluntary advance training for labor. Both the triathlon and giving birth involve intense physical effort and a certain degree of pain once the event begins. But when we give birth, what a reward awaits us!"
Debra Evans, excerpt from The Christian Woman’s Guide to Childbirth
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