“There is something very beautiful about being pregnant. I think I enjoy being pregnant more than not being pregnant. I know it could go either way, and the next pregnancy could be the complete opposite.”
Chrissy Teigen
PinThe 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. – RajneeshPinGiving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.PinA baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die. – Mary Mason
“Pregnancy seems designed to prepare you for life as a mother. You start making sacrifices nine months before the child is born, so by the time they put in an appearance you are used to giving things up for them.”
Brett Kiellerop-Morris
PinEverything 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 FisherPinThis 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
“It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing.”
PinIt is the most powerful creation to have life that is growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift. – BeyoncéPinBeing pregnant was the healthiest I’ve ever been in my life. Except for the cupcakes. – Ashlee SimpsonPinFeeling fat lasts nine months, but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever. – Nikki Bella
12 Inspirational Pregnancy Quotes for All the Mothers
“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
PinWhat good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. – Benjamin SpockPinLife is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born. – George Bernard Shaw
“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 re-evaluate my personal and professional goals.”
Holly Madison
PinIt is easy when you’re pregnant to spend hours dreaming about the little baby growing inside of you and wondering who in the world they will turn out to be.PinMy body has given me the greatest gift of my life. – Hilary DuffPinA miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. – Jennie Finch
“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.” and so in you the child your mother lives on and through your family continues to live… so at this time look after yourself and your family as you would your mother for through you all she will truly never die.”
Osho
PinMaternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. – Martin Luther
“I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren’t things I don’t love, but when I think about what my body is doing—creating a child—it just blows my mind. I’m in awe of the process and science.”
Emily Deschanel
PinHaving a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. – Tina BrownPinA new baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. – Eda J. LeShan
8 Touching Pregnancy Quotes that Will Warm Your Heart
“When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they’re pregnant.”
Mariska Hargitay
PinYou can hear now. Your inner ear is formed. I shout ‘love you’ into the bedroom. Then I feel stupid. Then I don’t. This is pretty much the story of my life. – Suzanne FinnamorePinA baby is God’s opinion that life should go on. – Carl SandburgPinWhen a baby comes, you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden. – Carlos SantanaPinIn giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves. – Myla and Jon Kabat-ZinnPinA baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.PinCarrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy. – Jayne MansfieldPinA baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in. – Elizabeth Bard
8 Wise Pregnancy Quotes for Expecting Mothers
“Pregnancy is a uniquely intimate relationship between two people. All of us luxuriate in this relationship once, and half of us are lucky enough to be able to do it all over again a second time, from the other side as it were.”
David Bainbridge
PinWhether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain—your life will never be the same. – Catherine JonesPinYou never understand life until it grows inside of you. – Sandra Chami KassisPinLet us make pregnancy an occasion when we appreciate our female bodies. – Merete Leonhardt-Lupa
“A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman’s crowning creative experience of a lifetime.”
John Stevenson
PinOf all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. – Lin YutangPinPregnancy is a process that invites you to surrender to the unseen force behind all life. – Judy FordPinRegardless if your pregnancy was planned or happened by surprise, it is sure to say that your life will be forever changed.
5 Encouraging Pregnancy Quotes to Inspire Love
PinA baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten and the future worth living for.PinLoving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving. – Penelope LeachPinI’m in love with a human I haven’t met yet. – Miss PlannerPinYou are proof that love before first sight does exist. – Araceli M. ReamPinBeing pregnant means every day is another day closer to meeting the other love of my life.
11 Pregnancy Quotes that Inspire Strength
“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.”
PinIn 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 RokerPinWe have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong. – Laura Stavoe Harm
“Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth.”
Christiane Northrup
PinAll pregnant women are warriors. It takes strength just to get up and go to work. – Camilla LuddingtonPinBirth is not only about making babies. It’s about making mothers—strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and believe in their inner strength. – Barbara Katz RothmanPinOf course I can do this. I’m pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn’t change my personality. – Christine FeehanPinIt’s amazing, the mentality shift that occurs in pregnancy. All of a sudden, you want to be good to yourself. – Elisabeth HasselbeckPinPart of being a parent is rolling with the punches, so consider an unexpected pregnancy the universe’s way of helping you to learn to do that. – Heather WittenbergPinGoing into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it’s forever-changing, both mentally and physically. – Brooke Burke
Top 12 Most Funny Pregnancy Quotes
“Everyone knows food is important to pregnant women. But what the uninitiated might not realize is that time is of the essence. The bottom line is, when she says she’s hungry, she means it. Feed that woman immediately or she will eat your f***ing face.”
Aaron Gouveia
PinYour pregnant elephant ankles will return to normal. Just hang in there. – Adriel BookerPinPeople always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it’s because you’re sweating to death. – Jessica Simpson
“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
PinBeing pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body – meaning that it wasn’t put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. – Amy AdamsPinI’m never as happy as when I’m pregnant. I literally would have 10 babies if I could! – Tori SpellingPinThere 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 ChalmersPinThink of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes. – Joyce ArmorPinYou do a lot of growing up when you’re pregnant. It’s suddenly like, ‘Yikes. Here it is, folks. Playtime is over’. – Connie FiorettoPinLife is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside. – Rita RudnerPinPeople who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one. – Leo J. BurkePinYou can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. – Franklin P. Jones
14 Thought-Provoking Pregnancy Quotes
“To be pregnant is to be vitally alive, thoroughly woman, and distressingly inhabited. Soul and spirit are stretched — along with body — making pregnancy a time of transition, growth, and profound beginnings.”
Anne Christian Buchanan
PinIt is said that the present is pregnant with the future. – VoltairePinI love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth. – Sadie FrostPinWhen I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I’d ever felt before. – Suzanne Vega
“We can’t understand when we’re pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time—like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.”
Anne Lamott
PinPregnancy is the only time when you can do nothing at all and still be productive. – Evan EsarPinMotherhood: The only place you can experience heaven and hell at the same time.PinWhether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same. – Catherine Jones
“Pregnancy can be a time when you take tremendous pleasure in eating, not only because you may enjoy food more but also because you know that it is nourishing both you and your baby.”
Martha Rose and Jane L. Davis
PinI find a pregnant body to be beautiful and an incredible reminder of what a woman’s body is made to do. – Kourtney KardashianPinMy goal is to appreciate my body for what it has done. – Sia CooperPinThe amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. – Olivia WildePinA ship under sail and a big-bellied woman are the handsomest two things that can be seen common. – Benjamin FranklinPinEvery child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility. – Kate Douglas Wiggin