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Pregnancy

There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation. – Pamela S. Nadav

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

Feeling fat lasts nine months but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever. – Attributed to Nikki Dalton

Let us make pregnancy an occasion when we appreciate our female bodies. – Merete Leonhardt-Lupa

I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb. – Michel Odent

Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant. – Jim Cole

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we. – Ina May Gaskin

The shamans are forever yacking about their snake-oil “miracles.” I prefer the Real McCoy – a pregnant woman. – Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

Now my belly is as noble as my heart. – Gabriela Mistral

Pregnancy is a process that invites you to surrender to the unseen force behind all life. – Judy Ford

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 and Debra K. Kingsporn, The Quickening Heart: A Journal

Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes. – Joyce Armor

Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. – Arabic Proverb

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

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

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. – Attributed to Mary Mason, also Monica Mason and Mary Manson (Anyone know where I

The dreams that we have in pregnancy are tainted with the worries and joys of pregnancy and the changing roles of our lives. – Robin Elise Weiss

It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness. – MrsE.B. Duffey, What Women Should Know, 1873