Lessons of Labor Quotes

“How do we have patience with a process that is so uncomfortable and so slow that it seems like it will always stay the same? I think we can only live out that question in our hearts.”
― Julia Aziz, Lessons of Labor: One Woman's Self-Discovery through Birth and Motherhood

“There may be something more to our stories than just whether we had a good or bad birth experience, though. We might consider questions beyond whether or not everything went the way we wanted. Instead, we might ask what these birth stories tell us about ourselves. What meaning can we find in the particular way we came face to face with pain, with the unknown, and with the delivery of new life into this world? How might we use this experience in the future? Can it teach us something about how we mother our children or about who we are becoming in this next phase of our lives?”
― Julia Aziz, Lessons of Labor: One Woman's Self-Discovery through Birth and Motherhood

“What does it mean to trust, and how do I become more trusting? What I know so far is this: when I approach life’s uncertainty with a willingness to not know the answers, more is possible than I could ever dream of.”
― Julia Aziz, Lessons of Labor: One Woman's Self-Discovery through Birth and Motherhood