Giving birth Quote by Jodi Picoult

“When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the…

— Jodi Picoult

When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the…

— Jodi Picoult

“Pregnancy seems designed to prepare you for life as a mother. You start making sacrifices nine months before the child is born, so by…

— Brett Kiellerop-Morris

“With this pregnancy, unlike my others, I was fully aware of the possibility of blissful, painless, potentially even orgasmic, and fully natural, unmedicalized childbirth…

— Adrienne Carmack

“I do miss being pregnant. I find sometimes that I'm surprised by the difference between her body and my own -- that when I…

— Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith

I always said, 'Whenever I get pregnant, I'm going to embrace all of the body changes that happen.' My focus has not been on…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

“A pregnancy tore up our lives. It's going to tear up hers. There's no hiding from that. A pregnancy's one of those things that…

— Jennifer Greene

“As time passed, I began to get depressed and cried a lot. It was not because of my pregnancy. Praise the Lord, I wasn't…

— Helen Goldie

“When a woman is pregnant, her freedom to choose her future for herself - and to act on that choice, whatever it may be…

— Ann Furedi

“Some women just want the experience of being pregnant, giving birth, and breastfeeding. For many women, these are vital bonding experiences." (p. 274: in…

— Rachel Lehmann-Haupt

“Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective…

— Claire Fontaine

Sharing our experience with pregnancy was incredibly important because we realized how challenging and difficult that was, and there are really dark moments where…

— Priscilla Chan