25 Inspirational Pregnancy Quotes and Sayings

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While being pregnant can be a trying and oftentimes uncomfortable experience, there are moments when being pregnant feels so magical and thrilling that we never want it to end. One thing is for certain: there’s no other experience in life like it. Here are 25 quotes that capture the joys and pitfalls of the nine months that for better or for worse, will change your life forever.

1. To be pregnant is to be vitally alive, thoroughly woman, and undoubtedly inhabited.
- By Anne Buchanan & Debra Klingsporn

2. I’m never as happy as when I’m pregnant. I literally would have 10 babies if I could!
- Tori Spelling

3. People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it’s because you’re sweating to death.
- Jessica Simpson

4. A grand adventure is about to begin.
- Winnie the Pooh

5. 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

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7. 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

8. Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.
- Joyce Armor

9. 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 reevaluate my personal and professional goals.
- Holly Madison

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

12. 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

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

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

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

17. 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

18.  You do a lot of growing up when you’re pregnant.  It’s suddenly like, “Yikes. Here it is, folks. Playtime is over.”
- Connie Fioretto

19. 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

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22. 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

23. 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

24. Making a decision to have a child–it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
- Elizabeth Stone

25. “When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.”
― Suzanne Finnamore, The Zygote Chronicles