“Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She'll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week's episode, her first show since giving birth to daughter Alice on Sept. 10. I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement.” GivingFirstsShowsNightBehindsWeekBabyBirthDaughterAgreementGet BackContractsWeekendEpisodesDesksSaturdayAnchorsSaturday NightGiving BirthBack To WorkSaturday Night LiveNbcUpdatesMaternityFeyMaternity Leave Author:Tina Fey
“When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.” TryingThreeFatherBornWeekBirthCertificatesLoopholesBirth Certificate Author:Jackie Vernon
“If women experienced the ecstasy of birth, they would have the high that would get them through the hormonal changes of the next week. Your body and your inner wisdom give you that high.” IfsGivingBodyNextWeekBirthYour BodyEcstasyNext Week Author:Christiane Northrup
“The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.” FirstsHumansChildrenSometimesHumorReligiousWeekBirthSixDevilStealingSubstitutesInfant Author:Martin Luther
“Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.” NeedsHumansMatterMotherRightsWeekBirthSurvivalIncreaseRateHuman RightsPopulationAbortionOppositionMortalitySensibilityUrgencyDecreaseBirth ControlPrecedenceMorbidity Author:Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
“I'd like to put the record straight about that. I've been labelled an irresponsible role model for young mothers, but none of it is true. I couldn't even walk for two weeks after the birth, let alone exercise. I ate very healthily all the way through my pregnancy and afterwards. I didn't do anything extreme.” WayTwoYoungMotherWalksRolesRecordsWeekBirthExerciseModelsExtremesPregnancyRole ModelsTwo WeeksIrresponsibleYoung Mother Author:Anna Friel
“In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few weeks after giving birth women would return to their normal working life. We never had housewives in East Germany.” IfsGivingChildrenWeekReturnBirthNormalEastGermanyHousewifeGiving BirthWorking LifeEast Germany Author:Christian Schwochow
“When I asked my mother where babies came from, she thought I said rabies. She said you get them from being bitten by a dog. The next week, a woman on my block gave birth to triplets... I thought she'd been bitten by a Great Dane.” SaidMotherNextWeekDogBabyBirthBlockNext WeekTripletRabies Author:Woody Allen
“Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.” NeedsGivingWeekBabyBirthLikesPopeThirteenBirth Control Author:Laura Moriarty