Birth Rights Quotes

“The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“The birth of a child is divine miracle.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Breastfeeding does not have to be hard. Breastfeeding is natural. With rare exceptions, it becomes hard only because of all the interference caused by the medicalization of birth and unsupportive culture. Animals breastfeed instinctively with no need for supplementation, classes, or support. We as humans also have these instincts. We have become so disconnected. Breastfeeding my children has been one of my greatest joys in life, and I am filled with sorrow when I imagine how many mothers and infants haven’t been able to experience this because of misinformation.”
― Adrienne Carmack, Reclaiming My Birth Rights

“As a pregnant urologist,… I was often asked by hospital workers and physicians if I was going to circumcise the baby. I always answered a simple “no” immediately, without adding the unnecessary caveat that I already knew I was carrying a girl. Knowing that in some parts of the world circumcising girls (female genital mutilation) is as common a practice as circumcising boys, I wanted to use this to spark rethinking every chance I had. When the questioner would find out I knew I was having a girl and tried to use that to explain my choice to not circumcise, I told them, “I wouldn’t circumcise if the child were a boy, either.”
― Adrienne Carmack, Reclaiming My Birth Rights

“Time is life.
Time for birth, time for death.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Birthday, Birthday, Birthday!
Celebrate your day of birth, no matter the circumstances of your birth.
Be thankful and joyful for the gift of life on this divine day.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“With this pregnancy, unlike my others, I was fully aware of the possibility of blissful, painless, potentially even orgasmic, and fully natural, unmedicalized childbirth from the beginning. After reaching my second trimester, I was relaxing in the bath after my children had gone to sleep, when suddenly I felt a profound connection with the little girl within me. She communicated to me how this birth was going to go. How it was going to feel. In essence, I knew she would pass easily out of my body.”
― Adrienne Carmack, Reclaiming My Birth Rights

“The birth of a child is a joy to the parent and the world.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The day of birth is day of life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Life begins at the day of birth.
Birthday is a great day of honour.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!