Obstetricians Quotes

Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.

Art Linkletter

Pregnancy, Kids, Marijuana

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My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.

Joan Rivers

Dog, Baby, Memorable

"Funny Ladies". Book by B. Adler, 2001.

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It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate.
Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling

Frederick Leboyer

Children, Communication, Hands

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Birth is not an emergency. It is simply an emergence.

Jeannine Parvati Baker

Yoga, Emergencies, Birth

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Reluctant doctors like to believe that they haven't much influence over their patients, but that is clearly not the case. Several studies have found that when doctors genuinely encouraged women to have VBACs, most of them did, and when they said nothing or acted neutral, most women didn't. Finally, when obstetricians discouraged VBAC in women who wanted to try it, none of them did.

Henci Goer

Believe, Doctors, Trying

Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.163, Penguin

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A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and lose; in the second you don't fight because you know you can't win. However, in the highest level of power differential, your preferences are so manipulated that you act against your own interests, but you are content. Elective [meaning requested for no medical reason, not to be confused with needed surgery planned in advance] repeat cesarean exemplifies that highest level.

Henci Goer

Confused, Fighting, Winning

Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.163, Penguin

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Loving everything about yourself - even the 'unacceptable' - is an act of personal power. It is the beginning of healing.

Christiane Northrup

Healing, Loving Everything, About Yourself

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How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.

Fran Lebowitz

Children, Abdomen, Excuse

"Opinions You Won’t Find on Twitter: Fran Lebowitz Talks" by Ginai Bellafante, www.nytimes.com. November 21, 2010.

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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.

Grantly Dick-Read

Mothers Day, Baby, Food

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

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As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps wiring the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn't just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself honey. This is hardcore science.

Christiane Northrup

Love, Inspirational, Doctors

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Experiences have clearly shown that an approach which 'de-medicalizes' birth, restores dignity and humanity to the process of childbirth, and returns control to the mother is also the safest approach.

Michel Odent

Inspiring, Mother, Medicine

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When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence of anybody who might release adrenaline. The best situation I know for an easy birth is when there is nobody else around than an experienced, motherly and silent midwife who does not behave like a guide or an observer.

Michel Odent

Numbers, People, Silence

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She gave Pretty Boy a surreptitious glance. Did he honestly expect her to believe he was gay? True, there were the gay boots and those stunning good looks. But, even so, he blasted enough heterosexual mega-wattage to light up the entire female population. Which he’d undoubtedly been doing since he shot out of the birth canal, glimpsed his reflection in the obstetrician’s eyeglasses, and gave the world a high five.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Believe, Gay, Reflection

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2009). “Natural Born Charmer”, p.20, Harper Collins

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When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch of surgeons or a bunch of male obstetricians, because physiologically, birth doesn’t happen the same way around surgeons, medically trained doctors, as it does around sympathetic women.

Ina May Gaskin

Doctors, Together, Males

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It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.

Ina May Gaskin

Mistake, Doctors, Physicians

FaceBook post by Ina May Gaskin from Jun 28, 2012

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There's a a right to privacy for all individuals and all who have legal rights - and that includes the unborn. As an obstetrician, if I cause any harm to a fetus, I will be sued. If someone kills or harms a fetus they're liable in a court of law.

Ron Paul

Rights, Law, Fetus

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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We have an epidemic of obese six-month-olds. We actually have an epidemic of obese newborns. They don't diet and exercise. How do you explain that? It's what the mother consumed. Well, who told her to do that? The obstetricians.

Robert Lustig

Mother, Exercise, Epidemics

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