quotations about pregnancy
Pregnancy can be a stressful and overwhelming time. You may be overjoyed at the thought of having a baby one day, and then the next day start wondering what you've got yourself into. You may be worried about whether you'll be a good mom, whether the baby will be healthy, and how the cost of having a child will affect your family's future finances. And you may worry about how your relationship with your partner and your other children will be affected--whether you'll still be able to give them the attention they need. As unsettling as this is (especially if you pride yourself on being in control), try to remind yourself that emotional upheaval is normal at this stage.
LINDA J. MURRAY
Babycenter Pregnancy: From Preconception to Birth
Pregnancy is a phase in which a couple ought to stay close, intimate and understanding of their partners' needs. This helps keep the relationship sparkling and may have huge implications for an unborn baby.
HASAN TARIQ
"A Good Relationship During Pregnancy Is As Important As A Healthy Diet And Exercise", Parent Herald, October 18, 2016
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
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
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
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
Pregnancy: The Inside Story
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
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