quotations about pregnancy

If you have a chronic health condition, such as asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, or even multiple sclerosis, you may find your symptoms are less severe, or even disappear, in pregnancy. Experts aren't sure why this happens, but it's thought to be the big changes happening to your hormones and your immune system. Sadly, once those hormones settle down after the birth, conditions tend to re-appear. But at least you get a break!
JOHN MUTURI
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"11 ways pregnancy is good for you", Eve: Woman's World, April 30, 2016
You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.
SANDRA DALLAS
A Quilt for Christmas
The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.
JENNIFER MCMAHON
Don't Breathe a Word
Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Essays and Aphorisms
Yes, pregnancy is wonderful and beautiful and all of those great, magical things, but it's also scary and kind of gross and, well, like every horror movie I have ever seen.
JENNIFER GERMANO
"12 Moments When You Realize Pregnancy Is Exactly Like A Horror Movie", Romper, September 28, 2016
Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged.
CHRISTINE FEEHAN
Ruthless Game
During my first pregnancy, the people I was around told me how great I looked, asked me how I was feeling, saved the comfiest chairs for me, and stocked the office with decaf tea. This time around, the person I spend the most time with -- although she seems to think I'm swell -- insists on eating my food and waking me up early every morning.
EMILY FISK
"5 Ways My Second Pregnancy Is Different Than My First", Huffington Post, April 25, 2016
How can I have morning sickness when I don't get up till noon?
RITA RUDNER
attributed, Oh Baby, I'm Having a Baby!
Nah ... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?
DIABLO CODY
Juno
Conception may surprise a woman who finds herself pregnant when she has hardly begun to think about having a baby, or had time to recover from the last one, or had even been determined to avoid pregnancy. It may be the fulfilment of a long-held childhood dream, or reversal of her child-free existence. Pregnancy may fill an aching, inner void or reflect a broody baby hunger, or it may constitute an unwanted invasion. It may be a first pregnancy; a second or third to extend a family; a first with a new partner; or one replacing a previous miscarriage or loss. Conception may be motivated by a compelling need to undo the past, or change the future.
JOAN RAPHAEL-LEFF
Pregnancy: The Inside Story
My first pregnancy, my pregnancy was the only thing on my mind at all times, more or less. At the very least it co-occupied space with more pressing matters. I could tell you how many weeks and days pregnant I was. Second time around I frequently forgot.
JAMIE KENNEY
"10 Reasons Your Second Pregnancy Is Way Easier Than Your First", Romper, October 13, 2016
When I was pregnant with my first child, if I wasn't at work I was doing one of three things: sitting on my couch half asleep, eating on my couch half asleep, or sleeping (probably on my couch). That was one chill-ass pregnancy, folks. Sure, I had nausea, sciatica, shortness of breath, but no one symptom lasted a terribly long time and life was OK. My second pregnancy I was chasing a two-year-old all over the place, commuting over an hour to my job, vomiting for 24 weeks, and I never rested. Still, somehow, my second pregnancy was way easier than my first.
JAMIE KENNEY
"10 Reasons Your Second Pregnancy Is Way Easier Than Your First", Romper, October 13, 2016
The only time a woman wishes she was a year older is when she's expecting a baby.
MARY MARSH
attributed, Oh Baby, I'm Having a Baby!
The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.
ROBERT HEINLEIN
Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long
If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished every moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
ERMA BOMBECK
Reader's Digest, 1982
Pregnancy is a wonderful thing for the woman, it's a wonderful thing for the husband, it's certainly an inconvenience for a business. And whether people want to say that or not, the fact is it is an inconvenience for a person that is running a business.
DONALD TRUMP
interview, Dateline, October 2004
I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.
LORETTA LYNN
attributed, Oh Baby, I'm Having a Baby!
With all of my pregnancies, I lived a minimum of 45 minutes from the hospital, so roadside delivery was a very real possibility. I always kept towels in the car just in case. Too bad I couldn't fit a midwife in the glove compartment, too!
KRISTI PAHR
"10 Moments During Labor And Delivery That Are Just Plain Terrifying For Anyone", Romper, October 19, 2016
That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it's just the horizon -- and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it's suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you've had the right shots.
EMILY PERKINS
Novel About My Wife
The pregnancy, I wouldn't really wish that upon anyone. Anyone. It's all worth it in the end, so I would definitely suffer through that, but pregnancy was not a good experience for me.
KIM KARDASHIAN
"13 Brutally Honest Celebrity Quotes About Pregnancy", Marie Claire, March 30, 2016