Being pregnant means every day is another day closer to meeting the other love of my life.
Mama, you are strong, beautiful, and more powerful than you know. Trust yourself. Trust your body. And know, that no matter how your birth goes, there is a powerful collective of mamas that are right behind you.
A grand adventure is about to begin. @ -Winnie the Pooh
A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten and the future worth living for.
Life's biggest miracle is the gift of having life growing inside of you.
Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were here an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of mother's love. @ -Maureen Hawkins
Pregnancy isn't always easy. The extra emotions, fatigue, morning sickness, and difficulty to find a comfortable position to sleep. But, just knowing your baby is growing inside of you is one of the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.
No matter how bad my day's been, it takes one little kick to make everything feel alright.
You're always going to wonder if you're doing things wrong, but that's what it means to be a mom, to care so much about someone else that you just want to be as perfect as possible. @ -Naya Rivera
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.
Just when you think you know love, something little comes along to remind you just how big it really is.
From the moment I knew you were growing inside of me; I have loved you.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. @ -Sophia Loren
A mother's joy begins when new life is stirring inside… When a tiny heartbeat is heard for the very first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. @ -Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness is on the way.
Pregnancy is the only time when you can do nothing at all and still be productive. @ -Evan Esar
Birth takes a woman's deepest fears about herself and show her that she is stronger than them.
A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.
It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift. @ -Beyoncé
A baby will make your heart fuller, your home happier, and your future brighter.
Just knowing you are going to meet the love of your life makes all the waiting, all the labor pain, and all the unknown worth it.
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
The miracle of life is taking place inside of me and I love and honor my ever-changing body.
That moment during pregnancy when you realize that shaving your legs has become a life-and-death struggle.
Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy. @ -Jayne Mansfield
You never understand life until it grows inside of you. @ -Sandra Chami Kassis
A 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
The love for your baby really is like no other. It fills places in your heart that you never even knew were empty.
Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically. @ -Brooke Burke
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one can take.
The pain that you've been feeling can't compare to the joy that's coming.
Bra off. Hair up. Belly out.
My body has given me the greatest gift of my life. @ -Hilary Duff
Being pregnant finally helped me to 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 Adams
Pregnancy changes you as a person. It is this amazing journey that shifts your focus and pushes you to re-evaluate your life and priorities.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. @ -Jill Churchill
Before we had you, we had each other, and now you're here we have everything.
Birth 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 Rothman
When we encourage new parents to 'treasure these moments because they don't last forever,' we need to remember to also reassure them that they will survive these moments because they don't last forever. @ -L.R. Knost
Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on earth, for what they believe is what they will become. @ -Brooke Hampton
The love a mother has for her child is immeasurable.
Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same. @ -Catherine Jones
Being pregnant is all about being fully alive, it is about being a complete woman, and it is a period of growing, transition, and of new beginnings in the journey of life.
It is within the journey of motherhood that a woman will discover how strong she really is.
My goal is to appreciate my body for what it has done. @ -Sia Cooper
There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth. @ -Penelope Leach
Being pregnant made me realize it takes talent to not pee yourself when you sneeze.
Let us make pregnancy an occasion when we appreciate our female bodies. @ -Merete Leonhardt Lupa
A new baby is like the beginning of all things – wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. @ -Eda LeShan
Part 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 Wittenberg
If your baby is beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time—you're the grandma. @ -Theresa Bloomingdale
Expecting a baby is just the beginning of expecting some of life's most precious moments.
We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong. @ -Laura Stavoe Harm
All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming, growing, turning, floating, swimming deep, deep inside? @ -Crescent Dragonwagon
Family is not an important thing, it's everything. @ -Michael J. Fox
Months have an average of 30 days, except the 9th month of pregnancy which has about 1,000 days.
I might only carry my baby inside me for nine months, and in my arms for a few short years, but I will forever hold them in my heart no matter how big they get.
The changes that your body goes through while pregnant are beautiful, yet they can also be daunting. As your body changes it is easy to feel fat or uncomfortable in your own skin, however when you are holding your precious little baby in your arms it makes it all worth it.
I am proud of many things in my life but nothing beats being a parent.
I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is. @ -Oprah
Expecting a baby is just the beginning, there are so many precious moments to look forward to as your baby grows.
Sometimes you don't realize what is missing in your life until it arrives. @ -Araceli M. Ream
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do. @ -George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing quite like that perfect moment when your holding your baby in your arms and realize you would do absolutely anything for them.
Feeling fat lasts nine months but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever. @ -Nikki Dalton
It's the small moments that make life big.
When people point at my pregnant belly and ask if I know what it's going to be, I like to say, 'We're hoping for a baby.'
The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand. @ -Madeline Tiger
I think that carrying a baby inside you is like running as fast as you can. It feels like finally letting go and filling yourself up to the wildest limits.
Giving birth is not a matter of pushing, expelling the baby, but of yielding, surrendering to birth energy. @ -Marie Reid
A strong intention, a relaxed body and an open mind are the main ingredients for an active birth. @ -Janet Balaskas
You know you're pregnant when all you fantasize about is sleeping for more than one hour at a time.
Motherhood: The only place you can experience heaven and hell at the same time.
My head says broccoli, but my bump says french fries.
I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knowledge which I do not wish to unite. @ -Mary Wollstonecraft
People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death. @ -Jessica Simpson
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. @ -Chinese Proverb
Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes. @ -Joyce Armor
Babies are always more trouble than you thought—and more wonderful. @ -Charles Osgood
It 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.
Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear. @ -Jane Weideman
There is no such thing as a perfect parent, so just be a real one. @ -Sue Atkins
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. @ -Lin Yutang
It's an established fact. Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it. @ -Rich Cohen
Your pregnant elephant ankles will return to normal. Just hang in there. @ -Adriel Booker
A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman are the handsomest two things that can be seen common. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Every four weeks I go up a bra size… It's worth being pregnant just for the breasts. @ -Natasha Hamilton
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. @ -George Santayana
Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. @ -A. A. Milne
There is a power that comes to women when they give birth. They don't ask for it, it simply invades them. Accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it. @ -Sheryl Feldman
If pregnancy were a book they would cut out the last two chapters. @ -Nora Ephron
Being pregnant was the healthiest I've ever been in my life. Except for the cupcakes. @ -Ashlee Simpson
In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves. @ -Myla and Jon Kabat Zinn
Children reinvent your world for you. @ -Susan Sarandon
Pregnancy is a process that invites you to surrender to the unseen force behind all life. @ -Judy Ford
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. @ -Leo J. Burke
Giving 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. @ -Harriette Hartigan
I like to think of motherhood as a great big adventure. You set off on a journey, you don't really know how to navigate things, and you don't exactly know where you're going or how you're going to get there. @ -Cynthia Rowley
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born. @ -George Bernard Shaw
A baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in. @ -Elizabeth Bard
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
A good way to prepare yourself for parenthood is to talk to rocks because they have similar listening habits. @ -Rodney Lacroix
Sleep is like the unicorn—it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any.
Babies are like little suns that, in a magical way, bring warmth, happiness, and light into our lives. @ -Kartini Diapari Oengider
I was told there would be glowing.
Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin. @ -Maggie Scarf
There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles. @ -Jared Padalecki
The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. @ -Olivia Wilde
Birth isn't something we suffer, but something we actively do and exult in. @ -Sheila Kitzinger
Birth is the epicenter of women's power. @ -Ani DiFranco
In pregnancy, there are two bodies, one inside the other. Two people live under one skin. When so much of life is dedicated to maintaining our integrity as distinct beings, this bodily tandem is an uncanny fact. @ -Joan Raphael Leff
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have. @ -Robin Lim
Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. @ -Tina Brown
Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch. @ -E.B. White
With every newborn baby, a little sun rises. @ -Irmgard Erath
Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy. @ -Tina Fey
There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written. @ -Toba Beta
Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do. @ -Emily Oster
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
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. @ -Barbara Kingsolver
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
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. @ -Benjamin Spock
I don't know about changing my perspective, because motherhood is such a glorious blessing and I am very thankful for that. It's such a beautiful experience. I so strongly recommend it. Its bliss, love and fulfillment of another level. @ -Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
I had a c-section and I found it fascinating. I didn't find it a sacrifice and I didn't find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do. @ -Angelina Jolie
Words can not express the joy of new life. @ -Hermann Hesse
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. @ -Franklin P. Jones
Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary—it's an act of infinite optimism. @ -Gilda Radner
The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch. @ -Karen Maezen Miller
Loving 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 Leach
If you are a mom, you are a superhero, period. @ -Rosie Pope
Making the decision to have a baby is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. @ -Elizabeth Stone
There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. @ -Jill Churchill
No woman should ever feel guilty about the choices she makes regarding childbirth, breastfeeding, or the manner in which she cares for her baby. @ -Amy Tuteur
Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing. @ -Ricki Lake
