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
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
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
How can I have morning sickness when I don't get up till noon?
RITA RUDNER
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
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!
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
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"
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: not enjoying every minute of pregnancy doesn't make you a bad mom, or a bad person, or an unappreciative human. You can be grateful and excited about the ability to have a baby, and well-prepared to raise a baby and super devoted to and already in love with your upcoming baby, and still hate the day-to-day reality of being pregnant.
SABRINA JOY STEVENS
"10 Necessary Mantras For Women Who Hate Pregnancy", Romper, September 21, 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
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 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
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
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 disease from which you recover in 18 years and 9 months.
CARRIE LATET
attributed, Oh Baby, I'm Having a Baby!
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!
People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.
JESSICA SIMPSON
"13 Brutally Honest Celebrity Quotes About Pregnancy", Marie Claire, March 30, 2016
Nah ... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?
DIABLO CODY
Juno
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