Inspirational Pregnancy Quotes

• 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

  Love, Baby, Pregnancy

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

  Barbara Katz Rothman

  Mother, Baby, Pregnancy

  Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press

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• There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

  Jill Churchill

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mothers Day

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• If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

  Nora Ephron

  Inspirational, Baby, Pregnancy

  Heartburn ch. 4 (1983)

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• I'm never as happy as when I'm pregnant. I literally would have 10 babies if I could!

  Tori Spelling

  Baby, Pregnancy, Being Pregnant

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  People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

  Jessica Simpson

  Pregnancy, People, Pregnant Women

  "10 things not to say or do to a pregnant woman" by Ella Alexander, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 2, 2017.

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• Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.

  Holly Madison

  Pregnancy, Journey, Goal

  "Holly Madison Reveals How Pregnancy Has Changed Her (for the better!)". Interview with Elena Donovan Mauer, www.thebump.com. January 15, 2013.

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• Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.

  Rita Rudner

  Baby, Funny Inspirational, Pregnancy

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Happiness, Smile, Mom

  "Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented". Volume II,

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  Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

  Barbara Katz Rothman

  Mother, Strong, Pregnancy

  Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press

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• Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically.

  Brooke Burke

  Pregnancy, Forever, Challenges

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• Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

  E. B. White

  Pregnancy, Motherhood, Waiting

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• Birth is the epicenter of women's power

  Ani DiFranco

  Pregnancy, Birth, Pregnant Inspirational

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• If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

  Laurence Housman

  Marriage, Mothers Day, Mom

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.

  Irena Chalmers

  Baby, Pregnancy, Cat

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• Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

  Sam Levenson

  Baby, Children, Fun

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.

  Penelope Leach

  Baby, Children, Pregnancy

  Penelope Leach (1989). “Your Baby & Child: From Birth to Age Five”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

  Robert Genn

  Pregnancy, Waiting, Busy

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• I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb.

  Michel Odent

  Baby, Pregnancy, Book

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• A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mom, Pregnancy, Two

  Poor Richard's Almanack (1734)

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• Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

  Erma Bombeck

  Graduation, Pregnancy, School

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• Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

  Bill Cosby

  Pregnancy, Over You, Lips

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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

  Crescent Dragonwagon

  Love, Pregnancy, Swimming

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• People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water. But it's certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool.

  Elayne Boosler

  Baby, Funny Inspirational, People

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• 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.

  Al Roker

  Pregnancy, Female, Realizing

  Al Roker (2000). “Don't Make Me Stop this Car!: Adventures in Fatherhood”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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