{"quotes":[{"text":"O smile, going where? O upturned look:new, warm, receding surge of the heart--;alas, we are that surge. Does then the cosmic spacewe dissolve in taste of us? Do the  angelsreclaim only what is theirs, their own outstreamed existence,or sometimes, by accident, does a bit  of usget mixed in? Are we blended in their featureslike the slight vagueness that  complicates the looksof pregnant women? Unnoticed by them in theirwhirling back into themselves? (How  could they notice?).","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["angels","dissolve","pregnant-women","surge"],"id":34119,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"Isn’t it wonderful to give birth to your own kind?","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["birth-control","birthday","birthday","childbirth","creation","delivery","giving-birth","parent-love","parenting","parents-and-children","pregnancy-humor","pregnancy","pregnant-women","women"],"id":263382,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Her body accepted my brutal seed and took it to swell within, just as the patient earth accepts a falling fruit into its tender soil to cradle and nourish it to grow. Came a time, just springtime last, our infant child pushed through the fragile barrier of her womb. Her legs branched out, just as the wood branches out from these eternal trees around us; but she was not hardy as they. My wife groaned with blood and ceased to breathe. Aye!, a scornful eve that bred the kind of pain only a god can withstand.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["babies","baby","blood","chidbirth","child","cradle","death","death-and-dying","death-inspirational","dying","earth","eternal","fruit","god","god-s-love","growth","infant","life","nourish","nourishment","pain","painful","pregnancy","pregnant","pregnant-woman","pregnant-women","soil","sorrow","sorrowful","stillbirth","womb"],"id":414935,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice-for-daily-living","advice-for-women","advices","birth","birth-mother","birthday-present","birthday","challenge-and-attitude","challenges","chidbirth","childhood","circumstances","circumstances-and-attitude","daily-living","daily","faith-in-god","faith","gratefulness","gratitude","healthy-living","inspirational","joyful-living","joyful-living","life","life-and-death","life-and-living","life-experience","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","live-your-life","living-in-the-moment","living-life","opportunities-in-life","opportunity-life","optimism","parental-love","parents-and-children","pregnancy","pregnant-woman","pregnant-women","spiritual","thankful","wise","wise-sayings","wise-words"],"id":448134,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}