Pregnancy Quotes - Page 6

• 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, Book, Moon

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• I am not pregnant, but I've had three kids, and there is a 'bump.' From now on, ladies, I will have a 'bump' and it will be my 'baby bump,' and let's just all settle in and get used to it. It's not going anywhere.

  Jennifer Garner

  Baby, Children, Kids

  "Jennifer Garner Gets Real About Her ‘Baby Bump’ That Isn’t Actually A Baby" By Jessica Samakow, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2014.

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• It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

  Lewis Wolpert

  Life, Marriage, Death

  "From Egg to Embryo: Determinative Events in Early Development". Book by J.M.W. Slack, Ch. 1, 1999.

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• Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.

  Madisen Beaty

  Mom, People, Needs

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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, Body

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

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• Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Giving, Perspective, Miracle

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

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• In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

  Leon Kass

  Abortion, Fetus, Pits

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• There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

  Honore de Balzac

  Smile, Literature, Bachelors

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• If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

  Adriana Lima

  Baby, Looks, Brazil

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• Birth is the epicenter of women's power

  Ani DiFranco

  Birth, Inspirational Pregnancy, Pregnant Inspirational

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• In pregnancy, there are two bodies, one inside the other. Two people live under one skin. When so much of life is dedicated to maintaining our integrity as distinct beings, this bodily tandem is an uncanny fact.

  Joan Raphael-Leff

  Integrity, Two, People

  Joan Raphael-Leff (2001). “Pregnancy: The Inside Story”, p.8, Karnac Books

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• It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Powerful, Motherhood, Growing

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• A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.

  Gracie Allen

  Children, Doctors, Should Have

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• The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.

  Madeline Tiger Bass

  Inspiring, Gratitude, Sweet

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• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new." and so in you the child your mother lives on and through your family continues to live... so at this time look after yourself and your family as you would your mother for through you all she will truly never die.

  Rajneesh

  Mother, Spiritual, Children

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• You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.

  Pink

  Beautiful, Children, Life Changing

  "Pink's Daughter Willow Sage's First Photo" by Marisa Laudadio, people.com. June 22, 2011.

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• You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

  Dave Barry

  Baby, Women, Boys

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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

  Bill Cosby

  Over You, Lips, Bottom

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

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• A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

  Joseph Joubert

  Love, Kindness, Women

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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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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• All of [motherhood] surprised me. It surprised me from the very first second I saw Jack. I'd believed that my pregnancy was a condition. It never computed. And there he was. Everyone made fun of me because I stared at him for months and months, not being able to believe he was real.

  Meg Ryan

  Fun, Real, Believe

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• When I first got pregnant, I freaked out. Then I had to remind myself: I'm turning 30

  Melissa Joan Hart

  Firsts, Turning 30, Pregnant

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• I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Writing, Tonight

  Pablo Neruda (1969). “Pablo Neruda: the early poems”

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• So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Brother, Laughter, Black

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• Enjoy the pregnancy, not racing ahead and relishing the moment. I think people see pregnancy as something to get over with, but every stage of becoming a mother is really special.

  Olivia Wilde

  Mother, Thinking, People

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