Accidents happen Quote by Sheila Kitzinger

Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

— Vera Brittain

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

— Fay Ripley

“People are not controlled by some internal calculator that crudely motivates them to maximize their reproductive success. Instead, people form deep, lifelong emotional attachments…

— Randolph M. Nesse

...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over…

— Gabriel García Márquez

When you're pregnant or living with an infant, there's a kind of sacredness around your body that affects everything you do.

— Dolores O'Riordan

Babies are born whole and then they go through experiences in life that chip away at some of that, and it becomes learned behavior.

— Ari Graynor

“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

Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had.

— Julia Roberts

Being pregnant is a wonderful thing. I have never understood why people make such a big deal of it though.

— Dia Mirza

Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create…

— Robert Anton Wilson

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

— John Travolta