PREGNANCY QUOTES
quotations about pregnancy
You never understand life until it grows inside of you.
SANDRA CHAMI KASSIS
attributed, Atlas Girl: Finding Home in the Last Place I Thought to Look
Have you ever seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers? That's pregnancy, folks.
JENNIFER GERMANO
"12 Moments When You Realize Pregnancy Is Exactly Like A Horror Movie", Romper, September 28, 2016
Babies are bits of star-dust blown from the hand of God. Lucky is the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star.
LARRY BARRETTO
attributed, Chicken Soup for the New Mom's Soul
I had a complicated relationship with my body before I had kids. I have just never felt proud of it. Then I got pregnant, and I finally felt like my body was in its element. I had spent so long trying not to get pregnant, that when my husband and I decided to start a family, and it happened without much effort ... I finally felt like my body was cooperating with me.
LIZA WYLES
"10 Reasons Your Second Pregnancy Is Way Harder Than Your First", Romper, October 7, 2016
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.
ERICA JONG
Fear of Flying
When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep it close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.
JODI PICOULT
Vanishing Acts
When I was pregnant with my first, I daydreamed a lot. The majority of my pregnant days were spent pondering questions like, what gender would our baby be (we didn't find out until the birth), what names I liked, and how we'd spend our days as a family. With my second, I didn't have the brain space to accommodate all that rumination. I was too busy figuring out what to pack my toddler for lunch at daycare, when we had to schedule our flu shots, who was taking off to cover childcare over the holidays, and what baby crap did we need to pull out of storage for the new arrival.
LIZA WYLES
"10 Reasons Your Second Pregnancy Is Way Harder Than Your First", Romper, October 7, 2016
I feel like I have a bowling ball sitting on my hoo-ha!
JESSICA SIMPSON
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
If men were equally at risk from this condition--if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains--then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
The Worst Years of Our Lives
Everyone knows food is important to pregnant women. But what the uninitiated might not realize is that time is of the essence. The bottom line is, when she says she's hungry, she means it. Feed that woman immediately or she will eat your f***ing face.
AARON GOUVEIA
"13 Things All Men Should Know About Pregnant Women", Huffington Post, April 29, 2014
Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy sense of duty. Mundane, because they were nothing unique on the suburban streets; ethereal because their attention was ever somewhere else. Whatever you said was trivial. And they had that preciousness which they imposed wherever they went, compelling attention, constantly reminding you that they carried the future inside, its contours already drawn, but veiled, private, an inner secret.
RUTH MORGAN
attributed, Thinking Outside the Church: 110 Ways to Connect with Your Spiritual Nature
To me, life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.
RITA RUDNER
on pregnancy, Naked Beneath My Clothes
Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.
CARRIE FISHER
attributed, Postcards from the Bump
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
NORA EPHRON
attributed, Woman to Woman
There is a power that comes to women when they give birth. They don't ask for it, it simply invades them. Accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it.
SHERYL FELDMAN
attributed, Thinking Outside the Church: 110 Ways to Connect with Your Spiritual Nature
You know how when you drive somewhere the first time it feels like it takes forever because you've never been there before and you're always anticipating that the next turn or exist is just around the corner? And then when you go back again you're surprised to find that it wasn't nearly as far as you'd thought. Pregnancy is like that, too. I'd also say this is in part due to the distraction of your eldest, but not being surprised by every new appointment, symptom, or development helps the time pass swiftly.
JAMIE KENNEY
"10 Reasons Your Second Pregnancy Is Way Easier Than Your First", Romper, October 13, 2016
It's an occupational hazard of being a wife.
PRINCESS ANNE
her view of pregnancy, TV interview, 1981
But the only thing harder than being pregnant is being just-no-longer pregnant. Right away, you long to go back to being pregnant, for two reasons. First, because when you were pregnant, at least you had a very good reason to look like Jabba the Hutt, and second, because when you were pregnant, every time your baby needed to eat in the middle of the night, you didn't have to get out of bed.
SHAUNA NIEQUIST
Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never.
OSHO
The Way of the White Cloud
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.
ROBIN LIM
attributed, Oh Baby, I'm Having a Baby