Some quotes to help me mentally prepare for labor, I am starting to get scared after the doc just told me Paige is probably going to be 9 lbs at birth.

"We are made to do this work and its not easy...I would say that pain is part of the glory, or the tremendous mystery of life. And that if anything, it's a kind of privilege to stand so close to such an incredible miracle." --Simone in Klasson 2001

"Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers ~ strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength." --Barbara Katz Rothman

"Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile…initially scared me to death." -Betty Bender

"We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong." --Laura Stavoe Harm

"There is power that comes to women when they give birth. They don't ask for it, it simply invades them. Accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it." --Sheryl Feldman