Pregnancy Quotes - Page 11

• All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.

  Crescent Dragonwagon

  Love, Swimming, Floating

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• That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it's just the horizon - and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it's suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you've had the right shots.

  Emily Perkins

  Country, Dark, Journey

  Emily Perkins (2012). “Novel About My Wife”, p.68, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I tried a few times, unsuccessfully, to lose weight. It wasn't until I joined Weight Watchers that I was finally able to do it. I went to meetings and my son came with me. The best thing was that I could eat what I wanted and still lose weight. Slow and steady, I was getting my pre-pregnancy body back.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Son, Weight Watchers, Body

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• I ran right back to work. My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Body, Pilates, Back To Work

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• I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness and reduce suffering, the decision to deliberately give birth to a Down baby, when you have the choice to abort it early in the pregnancy, might actually be immoral from the point of view of the child’s own welfare.

  Richard Dawkins

  Baby, Children, Views

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• Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced.

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck

  Beautiful, Motherhood, Being A Mom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I gained 60 pounds, and I'm proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I'm pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat.

  Kate Hudson

  Watches, Needs, Weight

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• Whenever my water breaks it'll be like a fire hydrant!

  Jessica Simpson

  Fire, Water, Break

  "Jessica Simpson Baby: Her Best Pregnancy Quotes", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2012.

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• You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Television, Just Being, Birth

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• When I got pregnant my foot grew, but I was denying it. I've been denying it for three years

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Feet, Years, Three

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• Natural childbirth allows the hormones that have been working for women for thousands of years to fulfill their functions. This is more important than just helping a woman through labor and delivery. Birth-related hormones also affect well-being much later in life.

  Janet Schwegel

  Later In Life, Years, Important

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• Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all the everyday health emergencies with nowhere to go.

  Richard E. Besser

  Heart, Pneumonia, Ebola

  "Another American Doctor Tests Positive for Ebola in West Africa" by Sydney Lupkin, abcnews.go.com. September 2, 2014.

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• The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about

  John Hume

  Equality, Rights, People

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 08, 2002.

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• We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Writing, Parent

  "Stories for Children". Book by Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1984.

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• I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child

  Carol Alt

  Children, Responsibility, Thinking

  "The Body Game". Interview with Elizabeth Sporkin, people.com. January 11, 1993.

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• A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Lying, Long

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• It's so much baby and so much amniotic fluid, it's crazy. If we have a 10 pounder, pray for me!

  Jessica Simpson

  Baby, Crazy, Praying

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• I just started calling myself 'Swamp A-.' Like, I have swamp a- right now. I had major swamp a- because I was wearing these Spanx to hold in my gut ... It's like the bayou up in that region.

  Jessica Simpson

  Calling, Swamps, Bayou

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• I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly.

  Marie Antoinette

  Complaining, Birth, Kicks

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• It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must go further. We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical, achievement. . . The birth of a child is the ultimate perfection of human love.

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Mother, Spiritual, Children

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• According to physiological law, all natural, normal functions of the body are achieved without peril or pain. Birth is a natural, normal physiological function for normal, healthy women and their healthy babies. It can, therefore, be inferred that healthy women, carrying healthy babies, can safely birth without peril or pain.

  John Dye

  Baby, Pain, Law

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• A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit.

  Peter Jackson

  Beautiful, Tree, Bruises

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• Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never previously been aware. To such a woman, childbirth is a monument of joy within her memory. She turns to it in thought to seek again an ecstasy which passed too soon.

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Memories

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• For too many women pregnancy is just the start of loneliness and abuse. It is a cruel reality.

  Fay Ripley

  Loneliness, Reality, Abuse

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• I'm convinced that whatever state you're in during your pregnancy has a huge influence on the baby's personality - so I hope we haven't produced a little serial killer!

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Baby, Personality, Serial Killer

  "Oscars 2008: Helena Bonham Carter". www.mirror.co.uk. January 24, 2008.

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