Grantly Dick-Read famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Mother #Baby #Breastfeeding
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

#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.
-- Grantly Dick-Read

#Uplifting #Spiritual #Memories
No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception
-- Grantly Dick-Read

#Pregnancy #Painful #Natural
If left alone in labor, the body of a woman produces most easily the baby that is not interfered with by its mother's mind or the assistant's hand. If left alone, just courage and patience are required.
-- Grantly Dick-Read

#Mother #Baby #Hands
Fear can be overcome only by Faith.
-- Grantly Dick-Read

#Overcoming
Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them.
-- Grantly Dick-Read

#Males #Female #Share
The women in labor must have NO STRESS placed upon her. She must be free to move about, walk, rock, go to the bathroom by herself, lie on her side or back, squat or kneel, or anything she finds comfortable, without fear of being scolded or embarrassed. Nor is there any need for her to be either 'quiet' or 'good.' What is a 'good' patient? One who does whatever she is told-who masks all the stresses she is feeling? Why can she not cry, or laugh, or complain?
-- Grantly Dick-Read

#Stress #Lying #Moving
It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to insist upon dulling the consciousness of a natural mother who desires above all things to be aware of the final reward of her efforts, whose ambition is to be present, in full possession of her senses, when the infant she already adores greets her with its first loud cry and the soft touch of its restless body upon her limbs.
-- Grantly Dick-Read

#Mother #Ambition #Agony
What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?
-- Grantly Dick-Read

#Pregnancy #Mind #Holy

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