By Maryn Liles, Parade
Whether you’re a first-time mom-to-be or are pregnant with your second child (or third or more!), those nine months leading up to birth are an undeniably wondrous and life-changing experience.
From funny quotes about being pregnant that acknowledge the ups and downs of your parenthood journey to sweet pregnancy quotes that could make you cry (thank you, hormones!), this big list explains what being pregnant and becoming a parent is all about.
These 100 best pregnancy quotes for moms-to-be will help capture the essence of that glorious feeling, in addition to commemorating this extra special time in your life.
1.
Being pregnant was the healthiest I’ve ever been in my life. Except for the cupcakes.
— Ashlee Simpson
2.
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
3.
A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.
— Unknown
4.
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.
— Leo J. Burke
5.
Motherhood: The only place you can experience heaven and hell at the same time.
— Unknown
6.
If your baby is beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time—you’re the grandma.
— Theresa Bloomingdale
7.
Babies are always more trouble than you thought—and more wonderful.
— Charles Osgood
8.
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
— Benjamin Spock
9.
You are the closest I will ever come to magic.
— Suzanne Finnamore
10.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
— Franklin P. Jones
11.
A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.
— Carl Sandburg
12.
You are pregnant and you are powerful. You are bold and you are beautiful. Go forward in your boldness, in your beauty and in your contentedness. Trust your body to birth and know that the collective power of women worldwide will be with you.
— Unknown
13.
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
— Chinese Proverb
14.
A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.
― Benjamin Franklin
15.
We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.
— Laura Stavoe Harm
16.
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
— Lin Yutang
17.
In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.
— Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
18.
If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished every moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
— Erma Bombeck
19.
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.
— George Bernard Shaw
Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were here an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of Mother’s Love.
— Maureen Hawkins
21.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
― Rajneesh
22.
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
23.
Baby in the tummy, it’s all up to mommy. But once the baby’s had, it’s bragging rights for Dad.
— Unknown
24.
Honey is sweet. A little baby is even sweeter.
— Unknown
25.
A grand adventure is about to begin.
— Winnie the Pooh
26.
No matter how bad my day’s been, it takes one little kick to make everything feel alright.
— Author Unknown
27.
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.
— Mary Mason
28.
And so in you, the child, your mother lives on and through your family continues to live… so at this time look after yourself and your family as you would your mother for through you all she will truly never die.
— Osho
29.
Let us make pregnancy an occasion when we appreciate our female bodies.
– Merete Leonhardt-Lupa
30.
Pregnancy is getting company inside one’s skin.
— Maggie Scarf
31.
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
32.
Giving birth is not a matter of pushing, expelling the baby, but of yielding, surrendering to birth energy.
— Marie Reid
33.
I love you bigger than the world and sky.
— Marty Klazmer
34.
Now my belly is as noble as my heart.
— Gabriela Mistral
35.
A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten and the future worth living for.
— Unknown
36.
Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear.
—Jane Weideman
37.
Of course I can do this. I’m pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn’t change my personality.
— Christine Feehan
38.
I’m never as happy as when I’m pregnant. I literally would have 10 babies if I could!
— Tori Spelling
39.
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
40.
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.
— Albert Einstein
41.
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
42.
Pregnancy is a process that invites you to surrender to the unseen force behind all life.
— Judy Ford
43.
A new baby is like the beginning of all things – wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
— Eda LeShan
44.
Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.
— Michael J. Fox
45.
People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it’s because you’re sweating to death.
— Jessica Simpson
46.
Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it’s forever-changing, both mentally and physically.
— Brooke Burke
47.
A strong intention, a relaxed body and an open mind are the main ingredients for an active birth.
— Janet Balaskas
48.
Every four weeks I go up a bra size… it’s worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
— Natasha Hamilton
49.
Words can not express the joy of new life.
— Hermann Hesse
50.
If you want to know the feeling, just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.
— Carol Burnett
51.
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
— Sam Levenson
52.
Being pregnant means every day is another day closer to meeting the other love of my life.
— Anonymous
53.
Children reinvent your world for you.
— Susan Sarandon
54.
When we encourage new parents to ‘treasure these moments because they don’t last forever,’ we need to remember to also reassure them that they will survive these moments because they don’t last forever.
— L.R. Knost
55.
Part of being a parent is rolling with the punches, so consider an unexpected pregnancy the universe’s way of helping you to learn to do that.
— Heather Wittenberg
56.
Get comfortable. Have to pee. Get really thirsty after you pee. Drink an entire cup of water. Get comfortable. Have to pee again. I give up!
— Unknown
57.
When your first baby drops her pacifier, you sterilize it. When your second baby drops her pacifier, you tell the dog: ‘Fetch!
— Bruce Lansky
58.
Your pregnant elephant ankles will return to normal. Just hang in there.
— Adriel Booker
59.
The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.
— Olivia Wilde
60.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
— George Bernard Shaw
61.
There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.
— Toba Beta
62.
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
— George Santayana
63.
There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.
— Jared Padalecki
64.
We never know the love of a parent until we become parents ourselves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
65.
Life doesn’t get more real than having a newborn at home.
— Eric Church
66.
Still the most magical day of my life was the day I became a mom.
— Linda Becker
67.
A baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in.
— Elizabeth Bard
68.
A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
— Sammy Davis Jr.
69.
Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.
— Tina Fey
70.
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
71.
Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary—it’s an act of infinite optimism.
— Gilda Radner
72.
Birth takes a woman’s deepest fears about herself and show her that she is stronger than them.
— Unknown
73.
Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
— A.A. Milne
74.
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
75.
My goal is to appreciate my body for what it has done.
— Sia Cooper
76.
Sometimes you don’t realize what is missing in your life until it arrives.
— Araceli M. Ream
77.
Sleep is like the unicorn—it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any.
— Unknown
78.
Rigid plans work best if you’re building a skyscraper; with something as mysteriously human as giving birth, it’s best, both literally and figuratively, to keep your knees bent.
— Mark Sloan
79.
A new baby is like the beginning of all things—wonder, hope, and dream of possibilities.
— Eda J. LeShan
80.
A good way to prepare yourself for parenthood is to talk to rocks because they have similar listening habits.
— Rodney Lacroix
81.
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
— Emily Dickinson
82.
My body has given me the greatest gift of my life.
— Hilary Duff
83.
There are two things in life for which we are never fully prepared: twins.
— Josh Billings
84.
Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.
— Rita Rudner
85.
Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on earth, for what they believe is what they will become.
— Brooke Hampton
86.
I’m a mother, and I look like one.
— Olivia Wilde
87.
If you are a mom, you are a superhero, period.
— Rosie Pope
88.
You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars.
— E.E. Cummings
89.
You are proof that love before first sight does exist.
— Araceli M. Ream
90.
There is no such thing as a perfect parent, so just be a real one.
— Sue Atkins
91.
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
92.
Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
— Dante Alighieri
93.
For this child, I prayed and the Lord has granted the desires of my heart.
— 1 Samuel 1:27
94.
Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.
— Penelope Leach
95.
With every newborn baby, a little sun rises.
— Irmgard Erath
96.
It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.
— Beyoncé
97.
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
98.
You never understand life until it grows inside of you.
— Sandra Chami Kassis
99.
Pregnancy is the only time when you can do nothing at all and still be productive.
— Evan Esar
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