Where did you come from, baby dear? / Out of the everywhere into here.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence... It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world... Like men since the beginning of time I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life?

If you bring the baby to us within 72 hours of birth and if there is no harm deliberately inflicted after the birth, then we take the baby, we ask no questions, and we're grateful that the baby's life has been saved,

To witness the birth of a child is our best opportunity to experience the meaning of the word miracle.

I was famous from birth