Looking for for blessings to give at a Blessingway ceremony? Here are a few poems and quotations that I thought were relevant for the context that might give you some inspirations.
Quotations
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star. ~Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul
I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine — she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~Terri Guillemets
“We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.”
~Sameerah Shareef
A mother’s love is like a circle, it has no beginning and no ending. It keeps going around and around ever expanding, touching everyone who comes in contact with it. ~Art Urban
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.” ~William MacNeile Dixon
We have a secret in our culture, it’s not that birth is painful, it’s that women are strong. ~Laura Stavoe Harm
Women’s bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered. ~Sarah Buckley
There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby’s. Your body is the child’s instrument of birth. ~Penelope Leach
“The power and intensity of your contractions cannot be stronger than you, because it is you.” ~Unknown
“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
You will emerge from uncertainty into great peace and freedom. ~ Unknown
You’re braver than you believe. Stronger than you seem. And smarter than you think.
~ Christopher Robin in Pooh’s Grand Adventure
Women’s bodies have near-perfect knowledge of childbirth; it’s when their brains get involved that things can go wrong.
~Peggy Vincent, Baby Catcher
Poems
Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
~George Cooper
Who fed me from her gentle breast
And hushed me in her arms to rest,
And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
My Mother.
~Anne Taylor
Life is the fruit she longs to hand you,
Ripe on a plate.
And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you.
~Phyllis McGinley
Morning Song
Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
In a drafty museum, your nakedness
Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.I’m no more your mother
Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow
Effacement at the wind’s hand.All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
A far sea moves in my ear.One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
In my Victorian nightgown.
Your mouth opens clean as a cat’s. The window squareWhitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons.~Sylvia Plath
I am a willow tree,
Strong, yet fluid
graceful.
I can bend with the wind,
but my roots are tough,
indestructible.
Opening to birth my child
is flowing with the wind:
from a soft and gentle breeze
to a stormy gale
back to a soft and gentle breeze.
My body is strong, but flexible.
It is my friend, it knows how to open.
I am a friend to my body
eating well, walking, and loving myself.
I shall birth safely, freely, openly . . .
among my loved and trusted ones.
I am the willow, flexible
beautiful resilient
endowed with the power of surrender
to the wind rustling through my leaves,
my branches.
My roots reach deep into Mother Earth
Anchored in Her strength
I bring forth life
In joy!– Author Unnknown
Sources
http://www.quotegarden.com/mothers.html
http://thinkexist.com/quotations/motherhood/
http://www.dailycelebrations.com/motherhood3.htm
http://ask.metafilter.com/90853/Quotes-or-poems-for-a-soontobe-mother
http://prepforbirth.com/2009/11/preparing-for-birth-quotes-about-childbirth/
http://birthwithoutfearblog.com/2010/11/29/birth-without-fears-favorite-quotes/
http://www.beforeandafterthebirth.org/quotes/
http://www.mothering.com/community/t/906544/poetry-for-labor-birth
http://birthbuddy.wordpress.com/resources/affirmations/
http://www.notable-quotes.com/c/childbirth_quotes.html
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