Today, what's normal is being redefined: from vaginal birth to surgical birth; from 'My water broke, ' to 'Let's break your water;' from 'It's time' to 'It's time for the induction.' As medical anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd writes, 'in the early twenty-first century, we do not know what normal birth is.' Most practicing obstetricians have never witnessed an unplugged birth that wasn't an accident. Women are even beginning to deny normal birth to themselves: if 'normal' means being induced, immobilized by wires and tubes, sped up with drugs, all the while knowing that there's a good chance of surgery, well, might as well just cut to the chase, so to speak. 'Just give me a cesarean, ' some are saying. And who can blame them? They want to avoid what they think of as normal birth. . Jennifer Block
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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Unknown
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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Mark Twain
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
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E.B. White
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.
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Fernando Pessoa
I've been embarrassing myself since about birth.
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Phil Lester
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