For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves. – Sheila Kitzinger, The Experience of Childbirth

Miscarriages are labor, miscarriages are birth. To consider them less dishonors the woman whose womb has held life, however briefly. – Kathryn Miller Ridiman, Midwifery Today, 1997

The baby bounced gently off the wall of her uterus. She opened her dressing gown and put her hands back on her belly. It moved again, like a dolphin going through the water; that was the way she imagined it. – Roddy Doyle, The Snapper