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Birth is really judgy, and people get really opinionated. Everyone's entitled to the experience they want.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emotions you never had before arrives, and a love you never had before in your life is now on tap.

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

The mind is more powerful than anything. So, during the birth I wasn't thinking about the pain. I was in a meditation state. I was concentrating the whole time, thinking, 'Oh my God, it's time. I am going to meet my baby. What is he going to look like?'

Someone told me that having a baby is like having your heart walking around outside of your body, and I didn't understand it until I had a baby. Now, like, everything he does literally crushes my heart. In a great way. And then if he's in pain, it's like my whole endeavor is to make sure he's not in pain.

The guilt of newborns is immense.