quotations about pregnancy
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
Your Baby & Child: From Birth to Age Five
Your husband may not be a wealth of pregnancy information, but he is a wealth of 'you' information. He probably knows you better than anyone else in this world (which means he understands your current neediness pretty well). He also probably loves you more than anyone else in this world. So, while he may not be the person to turn to if you need to know how to soothe breast tenderness, he's the perfect person to turn to when you need a hand to hold.
ERIN MACPHERSON
The Christian Mama's Guide to Having a Baby
Pregnancy can be overwhelming. Pregnancy can be filled with trials. Pregnancy can be full of fear. Pregnancy can be wasted worrying. Pregnancy is forty weeks. Forty weeks is ample time for me to prepare myself properly for the next important step in my life.
TINA M. ELLIS
Pregnancy: 40 Weeks of Preparation
There has never been a time in history when simply being pregnant and giving birth has seemed so complicated. This is because there has never been a time in history when being a woman has seemed so complicated. Whatever gains we imagine we have made in work, in relationships and in the wider culture, the struggle to find a positive definition of what it is to be a woman, particularly in regard to our reproductive lives, is as intense as ever. Nowhere is that struggle felt as keenly as in the arena of pregnancy and birth.
PAT THOMAS
Alternative Therapies for Pregnancy and Birth
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
Eating for Pregnancy
Pregnancy can be awful if you feel unwell. Some women just feel fat and disgusting; athletic women may resent being slowed down and feel annoyed at the extra fat that develops -- may dislike the 'softening' effect of pregnancy. Others look on the baby as a 'lump', which they take pride in not showing until the last month, and avoid looking at their bodies or talking about them: to them the baby may feel like a parasite. Being pregnant is a confirmation of a woman's sexuality and her womanhood, which can be painful to some women who have not been able to accept or be open about this side of themselves.
MIRANDA CASTRO
Homeopathy for Pregnancy, Birth, and Your Baby's First Year
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
The Quickening Heart
I have personally come to believe that childbirth is a blessing to a woman sent straight from God. I mean, in its purest form, birth is the most fantastic orgasm married with a miracle! What more heavenly gift could there be?
LAURIE ANNIS MORGAN
attributed, Oh Baby, I'm Having a Baby!
Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus Spake Zarathustra