Beautiful Pregnancy Quotes:

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

- Barbara Katz Rothman

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

topic: Mother, Strong, Pregnancy, Childbirth, Inspirational Pregnancy

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

- Jill Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Perfect, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

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.

- Rajneesh

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

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

- Barbara Katz Rothman

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

topic: Mother, Baby, Birth, Childbirth, Inspirational Pregnancy

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

topic: Baby, Pregnancy, Flames, Maternity, Beautiful Pregnancy

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

- Tori Spelling

topic: Baby, Pregnancy, Pregnant, Inspirational Pregnancy, Being Pregnant

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

topic: Happiness, Smile, Mom, Inspirational Pregnancy, Mother's Love

In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has gained. We are left with the physical husk; the transcending significance has been drained away.

- Sheila Kitzinger

source: Sheila Kitzinger (1978). “Women as mothers”

topic: Pain, Parenting, May, Transcending, Childbirth

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

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

topic: Pregnancy, Journey, Goal, Inspirational Pregnancy, Being Pregnant

It’s all fun and games until someone loses a testicle. —T-SHIRT

- Darynda Jones

source: Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.125, St. Martin's Press

topic: Fun, Games, Sidekicks, Testicles, Slaying

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

- Laurence Housman

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

topic: Marriage, Children, Husband, Being A Mother, Inspirational Motherhood

Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Children, Pregnancy, Motherhood, Mother And Baby, Beautiful Pregnancy

Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin.

- Maggie Scarf

topic: Pregnancy, Skins, Company, Being Pregnant, Were Pregnant

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

- Nora Ephron

topic: Inspirational, Baby, Pregnancy, Inspirational Pregnancy, Being Pregnant

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

- Rita Rudner

topic: Funny Inspirational, Tough, Life Is, Inspirational Pregnancy, Life Is Tough

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

- Sam Levenson

topic: Baby, Children, Fun, Inspirational Pregnancy, Being Pregnant

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

topic: Pregnancy, World, Wonder, Inspirational Pregnancy, Maternity

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

- Jessica Simpson

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

topic: Pregnancy, People, Pregnant Women, Inspirational Pregnancy, Sweating

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

- Robert Genn

topic: Waiting, Busy, Keep Busy, Inspirational Pregnancy, Waiting For Something

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

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Mom, Pregnancy, Two, Inspirational Pregnancy, Being Pregnant

I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.

- Sherry Glaser

source: Sherry Glaser (1997). “Family secrets: one woman's affectionate look at a relatively painful subject”, Fireside

topic: Funny, Pregnancy, Realizing, Beautiful Pregnancy, Pregnant Women

By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Pregnancy, Common, Birth, Being Pregnant, Were Pregnant

If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Pregnancy, Miracle, Wish, Chances In Life, Beautiful Pregnancy

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

- Robin Lim

topic: Inspiring, Pregnancy, Profound, Initiation, Were Pregnant

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

- Crescent Dragonwagon

topic: Love, Swimming, Floating, Inspirational Pregnancy, Maternity

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

topic: Pregnancy, Cat, Milk, Inspirational Pregnancy, Being Pregnant

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

- E. B. White

topic: Pregnancy, Motherhood, Waiting, Inspirational Pregnancy, Being Pregnant

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

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Graduation, Pregnancy, School, Inspirational Pregnancy, Being Pregnant