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“If you had a natural, drug-free, unmedicated, vaginal, out-your-vagina birth, make sure you tell the world. You should never talk about birth, but you should always talk about it if it was straightforward or without drugs.”

Book:Needs Adult Supervision

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“What happens when the order of birth and death are disrupted? Stillbirth goes against the way most people think about life and death, and the timeline in which they occur. It's unsettling. When death takes a life before birth, is it a life? I don't know. I don't think there will ever be an answer that feels certain, or one that is right for everyone. But right here, right now, I wonder, is it really just a single breath of air that creates a life? And the absence of it that makes a death?”

Death Loss Grief Birth Stillbirth Child Loss

Book:Still: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Motherhood

Source: Still: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Motherhood

“Unfortunately, we live on a planet with many limitations — genetic, mental, physical, etc — and on top of that, we have our memory erased at birth, which I believe to be a very diabolical thing, even though many spiritualists see it as a positive thing. So in a way, being delusional does provide more comfort, which is why many people want it. Why think about growing old when I can just play video games and forget about it? And why not waste my time with as many distractions as possible?”

Birth Comfort Waste Memory Limitations Planet Distractions Video Games Spiritualists

Author:Dan Desmarques

“The gendered expectations of parenting were dissolving, but even though women could be found working in creches now, there was still an enormous difference between the person who produced an egg and the person who cared for the little being that crawled out of it.”

Children Birth Parenting Motherhood Parents

Book:The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

Source: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

“Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?”

Birth Anger Motherhood Rage Pregnancy Babies

Book:Nightbitch

Source: Nightbitch

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