43 Best Pregnancy Quotes For Expecting Moms
1. “Sometimes you don’t realize what is missing in your life until it arrives.” ― Araceli M. Ream
2. “Giving birth is not a matter of pushing, expelling the baby, but of yielding, surrendering to birth energy.” ― Marie Reid
3. “The first pregnancy is the most self-indulgent thing in the world because you get massages and prenatal yoga and hypnotherapy CDs. During this one I forget that I’m even pregnant. I’m hoisting my 2-year-old around.” ― Emily Blunt
4. “Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.” ― Michael J. Fox
5. “There is something very beautiful about being pregnant. I think I enjoy being pregnant more than not being pregnant. I know it could go either way, and the next pregnancy could be the complete opposite.” ― Chrissy Teigen
6. “Being pregnant finally helped me to understand what my true relationship was with my body-meaning that it wasn’t put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit.” ― Amy Adams
7. “Every four weeks I go up a bra size… it’s worth being pregnant just for the breasts.” ― Natasha Hamilton
8. “In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.” ― Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
9. “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
10. “Pregnancy is a process that invites you to surrender to the unseen force behind all life.” ― Judy Ford
11. “Your pregnant elephant ankles will return to normal. Just hang in there.” ― Adriel Booker
12. “You never understand life until it grows inside of you.” ― Sandra Chami Kassis
13. “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
14. “Being pregnant means every day is another day closer to meeting the other love of my life.” ― Anonymous
15. “The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.” ― Olivia Wilde
16. “Children reinvent your world for you.” ― Susan Sarandon
17. “My goal is to appreciate my body for what it has done.” ― Sia Cooper
18. “Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.” ― Rita Rudner
19. “You’re always going to wonder if you’re doing things wrong, but that’s what it means to be a mom, to care so much about someone else that you just want to be as perfect as possible.” ― Naya Rivera
20. “We never know the love of a parent until we become parents ourselves.” ― Henry Ward Beecher
21. “When your first baby drops her pacifier, you sterilize it. When your second baby drops her pacifier, you tell the dog: ‘Fetch!’” — Bruce Lansky
22. “A baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in.” ― Elizabeth Bard
23. “During my first pregnancy, the people I was around told me how great I looked, asked me how I was feeling, saved the comfiest chairs for me, and stocked the office with decaf tea. This time around, the person I spend the most time with—although she seems to think I’m swell—insists on eating my food and waking me up early every morning.” ― Emily Fisk
24. “A new baby is like the beginning of all things — wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.’ – Eda Le Shan
25. “When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they’re pregnant.” ― Mariska Hargitay
26. “There is no way to be a perfect mother… but a million ways to be a good one.” ― Jill Churchill
27. “Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it’s forever-changing, both mentally and physically.” ― Brooke Burke
28. “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
29. “We can’t understand when we’re pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time—like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.” ― Anne Lamott
30. “Pregnancy is getting company inside one’s skin.” ― Maggie Scarf
31. “A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.” ― Sammy Davis Jr.
32. “Pregnancy can be a time when you take tremendous pleasure in eating, not only because you may enjoy food more but also because you know that it is nourishing both you and your baby.” ― Martha Rose and Jane L. Davis
33. “A new baby is like the beginning of all things – wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.” ― Eda LeShan
34. “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” ― George Bernard Shaw
35. “A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.” ― Benjamin Franklin
36. “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” ― Sophia Loren
37. “Pregnancy is the only time when you can do nothing at all and still be productive.” ― Evan Esar
38. “Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.” ― Tina Fey
39. “There are two things in life for which we are never fully prepared: twins.” ― Josh Billings
40. “It is the most powerful creation to have life that is growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.” ― Beyonce
41. “Life doesn’t get more real than having a newborn at home.” ― Eric Church
42. “People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it’s because you’re sweating to death.” ― Jessica Simpson
43. “Being pregnant was the healthiest I’ve ever been in my life. Except for the cupcakes.” ― Ashlee Simpson