Women today not only possess genetic memory of birth from a thousand generations of women, but they are also assailed from every direction by information and misinformation about birth. – Valerie El Halta

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour. – Ovid

A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die. – Attributed to Mary Mason, also Monica Mason and Mary Manson (Anyone know where I

In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves. – Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn, Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting