“You will go to the hospital with a cute little bag of stuff you’ve packed. If your mom friends were honest with you, you have extra room for the mesh underwear and will have brought with you nothing you’d ever like to wear again.”— Kate Auletta, huffpost.com
“I believe the most important thing about a birth story is that the birthing person felt empowered, heard, and in control, able to advocate for what matters to them and ensuring everything that was done was done with consent.”— Alyssa Garrison, randomactsofpastel.com
“Tim Taylor: I like to create, Wilson. Everything I do, I wanna make bigger and better. Wilson: Well, Tim, this obsessive desire to create partly happens because men feel inferior to women. [Tim grunts, perplexed] It's because we can't bear children. Tim Taylor: Ah, I don't mind the boys that much. W…”— Susan Estelle Jansen, Tim Taylor, Tim Allen, imdb.com
“Some people think the scariest part is coming to the hospital to have the baby. The scariest part is leaving the hospital with the baby.”— Dan Fogelman, Kay Oyegun, Jack Pearson, Milo Ventimiglia, imdb.com
“Been waiting at the pub for my wife to pick me up for hours now. How long does it take to have a baby, for fuck sake.”— raydeep, reddit.com
“As I get older, I see that everyone on my social media newsfeed is either getting married or having a baby. I don’t understand it. As a woman in my early twenties, I am still trying to figure out who I am as a person, how could it be that people my age are adding others into the picture already?”— Cheyanne Dunn, thoughtcatalog.com