PREGNANCY QUOTES II
quotations about pregnancy
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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
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"10 Necessary Mantras For Women Who Hate Pregnancy", Romper, September 21, 2016
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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
As I watched my belly grow, on one hand, I was self-conscious. Being pregnant felt dangerously similar to being fat. It sent me back to shame and regret, feeling like I was out of control, like I was in a car accident and was skidding slowly toward something I had already hit over and over again.
SHAUNA NIEQUIST
Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
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
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
Because they've either conveniently forgotten with time or they're trying to be supportive, most mothers won't tell you how hard pregnancy (and then childbirth) can be. Let me tell you, it is. It's brutal sometimes! But, if I did it, ANYONE can do it. I mean, I always knew I was meant to do something really BIG in life, and now I know that this was it. Screw winning an Academy Award someday ... I GAVE BIRTH!
JENNY MCCARTHY
Belly Laughs
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
Pregnancy can be a magical, wonderful time, when you may experience a dramatic improvement in your general health, and feel unusually happy, harmonious and healthy, a pattern which may continue in subsequent pregnancies.
MIRANDA CASTRO
Homeopathy for Pregnancy, Birth, and Your Baby's First Year
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"
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
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 disease from which you recover in 18 years and 9 months.
CARRIE LATET
attributed, Oh Baby, I'm Having a Baby!
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
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!
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
Envy the kangaroo. That pouch setup is extraordinary; the baby crawls out of the womb when it is about two inches long, gets into the pouch, and proceeds to mature. I'd have a baby if it would develop in my handbag.
RITA RUDNER
Naked Beneath My Clothes
In my experience, when women are pregnant they're very proud of their bodies, but the moment the baby's born, they're not. I don't think it's important women return to the shape they were before. I think if your body grew a baby, that's an amazing thing and you should be proud of that. But it's hard for women to feel that way.
PHILIPPA KAYE
"Instagram-filtered images of celebrities put pregnant women's health at risk", The Observer, October 15, 2016
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
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
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