Ken Kesey. Over the cuckoo's nest (№ 151018)

Pete had looked out first and seen all the delivery-room machinery waiting for him and somehow realized what he was being born into, and had grabbed on to everything handy in there to try to stave off being born.
Pete first looked around, saw the equipment waiting for him in the maternity ward as I realized where he was born, and began to grasp at anything, to not be born.