Grantly Dick-Read Quotes About Birth

• A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three.

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  Mothers Day, Baby, Food

  Grantly Dick-Read (2006). “Childbirth Without Fear”, p.388, Pollinger in Print

• It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must go further. We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical, achievement. . . The birth of a child is the ultimate perfection of human love.

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  Mother, Spiritual, Children

• Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never previously been aware. To such a woman, childbirth is a monument of joy within her memory. She turns to it in thought to seek again an ecstasy which passed too soon.

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  Uplifting, Spiritual, Memories

• Fear can be overcome only by Faith.

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  Overcoming, Birth, Birthing

  Grantly Dick-Read (1950). “The birth of a child: obstetric procedure in normal chidbirth for those who attend women in labor”

• No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

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  Pregnancy, Birth, Painful

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