PREGNANCY QUOTES II
quotations about pregnancy
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.
H. L. MENCKEN
"Minority Report", Notebooks
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to conceive.
DON HEROLD
Strange Bedfellows
How can I have morning sickness when I don't get up till noon?
RITA RUDNER
attributed, Oh Baby, I'm Having a Baby!
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
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!
True, the reason you don't have to worry about getting pregnant is because you're already pregnant, but hey -- you don't have to worry about getting pregnant. If you're a frisky pregnant lady, that's a perk to enjoy.
SABRINA JOY STEVENS
"10 Necessary Mantras For Women Who Hate Pregnancy", Romper, September 21, 2016
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
attributed, Oh Baby, I'm Having a Baby!
All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming, growing, turning, floating, swimming deep, deep inside?
CRESCENT DRAGONWAGON
attributed, Postcards from the Bump
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
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
Pregnancy is a disease from which you recover in 18 years and 9 months.
CARRIE LATET
attributed, Oh Baby, I'm Having a Baby!
Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged.
CHRISTINE FEEHAN
Ruthless Game
You are pregnant and you are powerful. You are bold and you are beautiful. Go forward in your boldness, in your beauty and in your contentedness. Trust your body to birth and know that the collective power of women worldwide will be with you.
ANONYMOUS
The first pregnancy is the most self-indulgent thing in the world because you get massages and prenatal yoga and hypnotherapy CDs. During this one I forget that I'm even pregnant. I'm hoisting my 2-year-old around.
EMILY BLUNT
"Anne Hathaway Is the Epitome of Perfect Spring Fashion in First Post-Pregnancy Red Carpet Appearance", E Online, May 13, 2016
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
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
All the earth is made anew--
Far the false, and fair the true--
Where a little life begins,
Free of sorrow, free of sins,
And Baby comes.
MARY CLEMMER AMES
"When Baby Comes"
Morning sickness ranks high on the list of "Least Favorite Pregnancy Symptoms," right along with sore breasts and crying at insurance commercials. Morning sickness, which is, of course, all day and night sickness (ever woken up in the middle of the night to dry-heave? It's pretty rad) affects up to 90% of all women during the first three months of pregnancy. It can range from mild nausea here and there to "toilet, you're my only friend" level puking. Some have it for just a few months, while other poor souls can have it for their entire pregnancies. Some can eat whatever they want without a problem, while for others just thinking the word "fish" can send them running to the nearest bathroom. But no matter what kind of morning sickness you have, we can all agree that it sucks big time.
MEREDITH BLAND
"Morning Sickness During Pregnancy Is Actually A Good Sign", Scary Mommy, September 27, 2016
Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. Every pregnant woman has body and self taken over by a chthonian force beyond her control. In the welcome pregnancy, this is a happy sacrifice. But in the unwanted one, initiated by rape or misadventure, it is a horror. Such unfortunate women look directly into nature's heart of darkness. For a fetus is a benign tumor, a vampire who steals in order to live. The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.
CAMILLE PAGLIA
Sexual Personae
Once pregnancy is confirmed, women find themselves under surveillance. They are expected to attain (and are measured against) standards and targets which they cannot hope to achieve unless they successfully fulfil criteria relating to health appointments, screening, diet and lifestyle. Thus, 'choices' about what to eat and drink, and how best to cope with the work involved in managing pregnancy, are rarely left to the discretion of the pregnant woman herself.
CAROLINE GATRELL
Embodying Women's Work