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

Midwives have skilled hands and know how to sit on them. – Author Unknown

The dreams that we have in pregnancy are tainted with the worries and joys of pregnancy and the changing roles of our lives. – Robin Elise Weiss

To be pregnant is to be vitally alive, thoroughly woman, and distressingly inhabited. Soul and spirit are stretched – along with body – making pregnancy a time of transition, growth, and profound beginnings. – Anne Christian Buchanan and Debra K. Kingsporn, The Quickening Heart: A Journal