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.
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.
Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.
There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.
By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.
I gained 80 pounds for my pregnancy so this is like my coming out party.
You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.
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.
I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.
The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.
The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.
Many thanks for all of the love and good wishes sent our way from my friends out there in cartoon land... the only place where a nine month pregnant woman can still play a hot goth chick in a belly shirt!
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