“And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?”
Source: Terminal Boredom: Stories
“But in the bearing of her son Miriel was consumed in spirit and body; and after his birth she yearned for release from the labour of living. And when she had named him she said to Finwe: 'Never again shall I bear child; for strength that would have nourished the life of many has gone forth into Feanor.”
Source: The Silmarillion
“To fully grasp the extent and peerless importance of the sensory intelligence, sensitivity and vulnerability of the newborn is to change not only our understanding of birth, but of humanity itself.”
Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
“Mother: a humanoid thing blinded by bandages, nurturing breasts hidden, limbs restrained, tongue lolling from its slack mouth, and with no recognisable sweat signature.”
Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
“Have you ever stood alone in a wild meadow, smelling the rich soil rising over the grass crushed beneath your feet and watched the birth of a tree?”
Source: the dust of hope: rune poems
“Make sure you subtly encourage the idea that a c-section or medicated birth or a birth with interventions is a lesser birth, so that the other mum knows she hasn’t reached the pinnacle of birthing. Because we all know that when children are at school, they separate out the kids by their type of birth, rank them, then the ones who had the most natural of births get the meet the queen.”
Source: Needs Adult Supervision
“Dirt is the closest thing to a womb a person can hope for.”
Source: Out Behind the Barn
“When something goes 'wrong,' it is not the outer event that ought to be changed, but our inner state which responds to it. If we can build inner balance, we will no longer be blown over by the slightest gust, whether 'good' or 'bad'.”
Source: Natural Birth: A Holistic Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Breastfeeding
“In sharing his vision of the ‘black light’ – significantly, Brady wanted the phrase to be the title of his autobiography – he was again calling attention to the genesis of his sociopathy.”
Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
“These associations, between childbirth and feminine effacement, and between feminine silencing and violence, would, for the first time, become imprinted on the subconscious in relation to birth, creating, in place of passionate and proud attachment, a terror-based antipathy between mother and child, and between the feminine and its biology.”
Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine