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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

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. — Frank A. Clark

A newborn already has nine months of experience when she is born. — T. Berry Brazelton

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. — Osho

Each night a child is born is a holy night. — Sophia Lyon Fahs

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility. — Kate Douglas Wiggin

A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. — Eda LeShan

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. — Deepak Chopra

Infancy is a vulnerable stage of development, therefore, it's not enough that babies receive good care, the care must be excellent. — Magda Gerber

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. — Osho

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding. — Erik Erikson

A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma. — Sri Yukteswar Giri

If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth. — Jaden Smith

A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature. — David Suzuki

Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one. — Frederick Leboyer

Newborn Baby Quotes

Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children. — Dante Alighieri

My sister just had a baby, a little newborn. The kid is adorable, so cute. She wouldn't let me hold him, she refuses. She says, 'No way, Anthony, I'm afraid you're gonna drop him.' I'm 32 years old. Like I'm some kind of idiot. Like I don't have a million other ways to hurt that baby. — Anthony Jeselnik

I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be. — Robert Munsch

Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful. - Charles Osgood

Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful. — Charles Osgood

Is it the duty of every good revolutionary to kill every newborn White baby? — Jose Angel Gutierrez

The more you give, the more you live. — Blake Mycoskie

Newborn child quote It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair and adult.
It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair and adult.

Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities to explore their worlds. — Sandra Scarr

The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction. — M. Russell Ballard

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. — Tina Brown

There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not live, when killing the newborn baby is not at all wrong ... not like killing the chimpanzee would be. — Peter Singer

Newborn Quotes

The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the newborn , knowledge and confidence for the young mother, a voice for those too weak to speak, and so on. — Virginia Henderson

In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you. — Martin Buber

The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it. — Maria Montessori

Newborn child quote A child can teach an adult three things: To be happy for no reason, to always be curious, to fight t
A child can teach an adult three things: To be happy for no reason, to always be curious, to fight tirelessly for something.

After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn. — Albert Hofmann

We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night. — Andrea Gibson

A song was heard at Christmas To wake the midnight sky: A saviour's birth, and peace on earth, And praise to God on high. The angels sang at Christmas With all the hosts above, And still we sing the newborn King His glory and his love. — Timothy Dudley-Smith

Newborn child quote A child learns to walk and falls down 50 times. He never thinks to himself, "maybe this isn't for me
A child learns to walk and falls down 50 times. He never thinks to himself, "maybe this isn't for me?".

I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child — Adrienne Rich

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. — Rabindranath Tagore

Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child. — Kate Douglas Wiggin

Birth Of A Child Quotes

The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women. — Stephen Gaskin

God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom he named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength — Barbara Katz Rothman

Newborn child quote Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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. — Grantly Dick-Read

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have. — Robin Lim

When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk. — Marvin Harris

Newborn child quote It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult.
It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult.

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?" — Eve Merriam

Every minute of every day, a child under 15 is infected with HIV - the overwhelming majority of children under 15 who are HIV-positive get infected through their mothers at birth. Without treatment, half of these children die before they reach their second birthday. — Gabriel Byrne

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers. — Barbara Katz Rothman

One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man-made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will be reduced to a pile of ashes. But every single child to whom a has given birth will live forever, for he has been given an immortal soul made to God's image and likeness. — Alice von Hildebrand

New Baby Quotes

Scott Bullett, as he takes left field, is getting congratulations from everybody. He and his daughter are parents of a new baby. — Harry Caray

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. — A. A. Milne

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him. — Erik Erikson

Newborn child quote A child needs your love most when they deserve it least.
A child needs your love most when they deserve it least.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day. — Emma Goldman

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice. - Barry White

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice. — Barry White

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. — Phyllis Diller

Newborn child quote Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars.
Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars.

There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it. — Irena Chalmers

Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato — The Notorious B.I.G.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. — Plato

You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. — Harvey Diamond

New Baby Boy Quotes

Children reinvent your world for you. — Susan Sarandon

The more you give, the more you can give. — Roy T. Bennett

Life is a wheel. The more you give, the more you get back. — Jerold Panas

Newborn child quote Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Every child begins the world again. — Henry David Thoreau

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. — Charles Dickens

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair. — George Bernard Shaw

Newborn child quote The creative adult is the child who survived.
The creative adult is the child who survived.

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother. — Mark Twain

A 66-YEAR-OLD woman has become the oldest new mum in Britain after giving birth to a baby boy. I'm amazed she needed to have a caesarean section though, you'd think at 66 she would have needed some masking tape down there just to stop it falling out. — Frankie Boyle

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl. — James Barrie

Michael Jackson has a new baby boy; no word yet who the father is. — Jay Leno

Baby Born Quotes

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for. — Thurgood Marshall

According to traditional wisdom in rural France, a baby in the womb should be compared to fruit on the tree. Not all the fruit on the same tree is ripe at the same time...we must accept that some babies need a much longer time than others before they are ready to be born. — Michel Odent

Each and every one of us is born with a clean heart. Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn – and only from us. We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start. — Ruby Bridges

Newborn child quote Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is an absolutely astonishing statistic. And it ought to be terrorizing to not just to people of color, but to all of us. — Bryan Stevenson

A world to be born under your footsteps. - Saint-John Perse

A world to be born under your footsteps. — Saint-John Perse

Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here. — Mildred D. Taylor

Newborn child quote Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to she shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to she shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen child. Anything can be.

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart. — Jeremiah

Rejoice and love yourself today 'Cause baby, you were born this way. — Lady Gaga

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run. — Bruce Springsteen

Comfort is everything. You start doing something and you want it to be perfect right away, but most babies are born ugly and then they shake it out and you get beautiful toddlers. — John Mulaney

Unborn Baby Quotes

...is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great cost, and murder millions of unborn children? — Alice von Hildebrand

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. - Gloria Swanson

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. — Gloria Swanson

What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves! — John Flavel

But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government. — Birch Bayh

There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day. — Matt Drudge

Kill an unborn baby and you still couldn't de-fetus. — Celph Titled

No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction. — R. C. Sproul

The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. — John Calvin

You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion. — Pope John Paul II

My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear. — Danica McKellar

Unborn Child Quotes

Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child. — Ronald Reagan

All who are genuinely committed to the advancement of women can and must offer a woman or a girl who is pregnant, frightened and alone a better alternative than the destruction of her own unborn child. — Mary Ann Glendon

Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion. What should be the safest place to live in America - a mother's womb - is now the most dangerous place. — Randy Alcorn

And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? — Mother Teresa

There are demons and there are evil people in the world, and you post a picture like that and some cultist gets a hold of it or a coven and they begin muttering curses against an unborn child. — Pat Robertson

Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them. — Susan B. Anthony

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much. — Alan Paton

The fingers and toes and beating hearts that we can see on an unborn child's ultrasound come with something that we cannot see: a soul — George W. Bush

We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? — Ronald Reagan

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Childbirth Quotes

...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily. — Michel Odent

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

Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life. — Debbie Reynolds

If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them. — Michel Odent

Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth. — Richard J. Codey

Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth. — Richard Codey

In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation. — Peter Wessel Zapffe

War is to men, childbirth is to women. — Indian Proverbs

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth. — Leo Rosten

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

Babies Being Born Quotes

To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. — Janusz Korczak

Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister. — Stephen King

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door. — Jeff Foxworthy

Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires. — Stephen Colbert

The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy. — Dave Barry

When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play. — Alveda King

Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end. — Nas

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too. — Tom Hanks

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. — Anne Ridler

Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions. — Elizabeth Hardwick

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More Newborn Child Quotes

I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you have to practice like a devoted mother of a newborn child. It takes the same energy but has a completely different quality. It's compassion and presence rather than having to defeat the enemy in battle. — Jack Kornfield

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow. — Rabindranath Tagore

Children are like a book which we should write in and which we should read. — Peter Rosegger

ISIS are actively recruiting Americans. The attacker in San Bernardino was an American citizen, born and raised in this country. He was a health inspector; had a newborn child and left all that behind to kill 14 people. — Marco Rubio

I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity — Richard Buckminster Fuller

We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood transplant from a sibling to bank cord blood from newborns should they decide to have another child. — Nathan Deal

A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed. — Homer

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child. — Carl Sandburg

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security. — Heston Blumenthal

In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family. — Pope John Paul II

Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people FORCE HIM to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior. — Ludwig von Mises

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child? — Dorothy Nolte

The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep while the baby sleeps. I've heard that so many times. I never realized how true it really is. If you don't, you'll be walking around like a zombie. — Tia Mowry

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance. — Leo Tolstoy

When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly person, Benjamin Button was, in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and in the film starring Brad Pitt, he dies as a newborn child. Michael Jackson's childhood was one of enormous, prodigious production.He was a child prodigy, he was a wunderkind. — Michael Eric Dyson

In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietà: a mother with her newly dead child on her lap. — Harry Mulisch

I looked down at the little pink face in the bundle. A newborn. The child had been alive only minutes but was already considered a criminal by the Soviets. — Ruta Sepetys

Imagine the one god himself has reversed his clock and reversed your regrets. Imagine knowing the bone-deep truth that whatever impossibility would make you truly happy has been granted. Imagine knowing you can once again hold your lost lover or your newborn child. Imagine what you feel during those first seconds of knowing. Now, imagine those first seconds last for days on end. .... Like I said, I'm a chemist. It's all coming back to me.p62 — Craig Clevenger

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