Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

The statement treats childbirth as an “initiation”—a threshold experience that changes identity and perception. Lim suggests that the intensity of labor, the confrontation with vulnerability and power, and the emergence of new life can function like a spiritual rite, opening a woman to awe, humility, and a sense of connection beyond the self. The quote also implicitly critiques approaches that reduce birth to risk management alone: if birth is understood as spiritually profound, then dignity, consent, and emotional safety become central, not optional. In this framing, spirituality is not necessarily religious doctrine but an embodied, meaning-making encounter with creation, pain, love, and transformation.