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“She didn’t think of the debt she was repaying, that each of the babies she brought into the world might someday be counted against the babies that had died, by her hand, after the war.”

Book:The Good Muslim

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“She felt the urge to tell him more, to explain about the abortions she had done after the war, and that she hadn’t realised until later, much later, that she had racked up a debt she was still struggling to repay. How could he know – he was just a soldier, he had killed as a matter of principle, but the war babies, the children of rape, had been left to junior doctors, the volunteers in ragged tents on the outskirts of town.”

War Abortion Babies

Book:The Good Muslim

Source: The Good Muslim

“With Ashleigh we had to try forever. But Callie and I .. we were just going to see what happens." "Babies." I grin at hi because he's a doofus right now. "Babies are what happens, Captain.”

Alex Babies Devin

Book:Game On

Source: Game On

“you like babies, don't you? he asked... I have a marginally higher opinion of them than Herod, she said.”

Babies

Book:Murder at the Old Vicarage

Source: Murder at the Old Vicarage

“Lena walked into the dining room with a plate of pancakes for both Knox and Bea. "Work for this family for fifty years, you'd think they'd have the decency to tell me when they got married. I'm only giving you breakfast so I can make sure you have enough strength to make babies." "Good morning, Lena. Thank you for breakfast," he said, knowing she was only half kidding. "Lots of babies," Lena repeated. "And soon.”

Babies Lena

Book:Deadly Secret

Source: Deadly Secret

“We should understand the mother and child as a mutually responsive dyad. They are a symbiotic unit that make each other healthier and happier in mutual responsiveness. This expands to other caregivers too. -Darcia Narvaez”

Attachment Mothers Babies Breastfeeding

Book:Impact of Sleep Training and Cry it Out: Excerpt from The Science of Mother-Infant Sleep

Source: Impact of Sleep Training and Cry it Out: Excerpt from The Science of Mother-Infant Sleep

“You’re born cute. Babies are cute. Not hard to guess why – it’s so everyone will forgive them for being such a pain. You grow a little older, and people say, what beautiful hair, or get a load of those baby blues,’ or something nice that keeps you thinking you’re still on the cuteness track. Then you hit twelve or thirteen and boom, they tell you everything needs fixing.”

Cute Babies Cuteness

Book:Down the Rabbit Hole

Source: Down the Rabbit Hole

“Babies are my Life”

Baby Babies

Author:Cynthia Severson

“I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.”

Love Life Death Relationships Loss Transplant

Book:In a Heartbeat

Source: In a Heartbeat

“A woman's body does a thousand different things, toils, runs, studies, fantasizes, invents, wearies, and meanwhile the breasts enlarge, the lips of the sex swell, the flesh throbs with a round life that is yours, your life, and yet pushes elsewhere, draws away from you although it inhabits your belly, joyful and weighty, felt as a greedy impulse and yet repellent, like an insect's poison injected into a vein.”

Children Motherhood Pregnancy Babies Breeding Childbearing Greatbabyshowerquotes

Book:The Lost Daughter

Source: The Lost Daughter

“Jacqueline and Jillian, who were crying for some of the many reasons that babies cry—they were cold, they were distressed, they were offended by the existence of gravity—continued to wail.”

Humor Babies

Book:Down Among the Sticks and Bones

Source: Down Among the Sticks and Bones

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