Pregnancy Quotes - Page 3

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced.

Natural childbirth allows the hormones that have been working for women for thousands of years to fulfill their functions. This is more important than just helping a woman through labor and delivery. Birth-related hormones also affect well-being much later in life.

All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.

Being pregnant was the healthiest I've ever been in my life. Except for the cupcakes.

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

My pregnancy was amazing. I was happy that whole time, I felt good, I had energy, I was like Superwoman. I wish I could feel like that for the rest of my life, that's how fantastic it was.

Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion. What should be the safest place to live in America - a mother's womb - is now the most dangerous place.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

Beyond the immediate risks to her health and the health of her baby, when a woman chooses c-section, she decreases the chance that she will be able to get pregnant again and increases the chance that if she does get pregnant, the pregnancy will occur outside the uterus, a situation that never results in a live baby and is life-threatening to the woman. Furthermore, the risk of having an unexplained stillbirth doubles when a woman has had a previous c-section.

Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

Envy the kangaroo. That pouch setup is extraordinary; the baby crawls out of the womb when it is about two inches long, gets into the pouch, and proceeds to mature. I'd have a baby if it would develop in my handbag.

Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

America doesn't have an abortion problem - it has an unwanted pregnancy problem, and an abortion symptom.

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.