Quotes About Pregnancy Body

#1. Pregnancy does not limit lung function, and both pregnancy and exercise improve the ability of body tissues to take up and utilize oxygen.

James F. Clapp III

#2. Ariel Gordon is superbly, supremely, a poet of the body. She finds words for the physicality of the forest, of the garden, of pregnancy. Hump speaks the erotics of being alive and being in love with being alive.

Robert Kroetsch

#3. I have always been suspicious of the phrase, the glow of pregnancy, and my suspicions were only confirmed by Lillian's appearance. Instead of a glow, her whole body seemed to become more and more dull, sallow and sickly sweet and vague, like a candle burning out or a line of smudged writing.

John Burnside

#4. Unlike the vast majority of Americans, he did not assume that a woman seeking an abortion late in pregnancy was lazy or stupid or too busy having sex to have attended to matters early on. He did not assume that her body ceased to be her own because she was pregnant.

Katha Pollitt

#5. I hoped what little dinner I'd eaten wasn't something my new baby-rich body didn't like. I didn't want to throw up all over the bad guys, or then again maybe I did. It would certainly be distracting.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#6. Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth

Christiane Northrup

#7. Process is not a substitute for skill.

Jim Highsmith

#8. There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.

Penelope Leach

#9. No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain.

Me.

Alicen Grey

#10. The difference in my body from pre-pregnancy to post-baby was night and day. I didn't have the strength, I didn't have the flexibility, I didn't have the stamina, I didn't have the mobility. I felt like I was handicapped.

Evangeline Lilly

#11. I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially.

Thom Yorke

#12. I think your body is just a little bit stronger after pregnancy.

Paula Radcliffe

#13. We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger.

Bart Starr

#14. FACT: Women are up to five times more likely than men to have urinary incontinence problems, primarily due to trauma the body experiences during pregnancy and childbirth.

Cary McNeal

#15. I wear my age with pride.

Tyra Banks

#16. Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too.

Kerry King

#17. I am protective of the gentle slope of stomach bulging like an early pregnancy, at my waist. I've earned its existence with everything I've been forced to swallow.

Stephanie Roberts

#18. I can't wait to have more kids. I love being pregnant. I have such an incredible connection with myself and with my body that I've never had before.

Jessica Simpson

#19. I worked with Mikhail Saakashvili for more than six years. I was his right-hand man. He never accused me of anything during that time. But the minute I switched to the opposition, I was suddenly called a criminal. It was a political maneuver.

Irakli Okruashvili

#20. After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

Christie Brinkley

#21. I think it is such a privilege to give a baby its first home inside your body. [After the pregnancy was over] I found myself massaging my stomach gently. I miss him being in my body
stretching, hiccupping even. It was a wonderful, deep, loving, fulfilling feeling.

Celine Dion

#22. It's normal to gain weight during pregnancy. It's something that has to happen to your body.

Carnie Wilson

#23. My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.

Mary Manin Morrissey

#24. My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.

Melissa McCarthy

#25. I t was a well-known fact among Christian homeschoolers that public
schools were bastions of gangs, drugs, teen pregnancy, rap music, pop culture, secular humanism, witchcraft, and body piercings.

Josh Sundquist

#26. The easiest way to get your body back after baby is to not gain too much weight during your pregnancy!

Constance Marie

#27. I breastfed my son for 13 months, and I plan to do at least the same with my daughter. That's an amazing thing for babies, but it's also really good for the mother because it regulates your body again after pregnancy.

Penelope Cruz

#28. Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.

Gabriela Mistral

#29. I thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual.

Jenna Dewan

#30. It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing.

Angelina Jolie

#31. Pregnancy changed my body; it changed the way I walk.

Andie MacDowell

#32. Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.

Emma Donoghue

#33. Say a woman is more than the sum of her parts and I'll listen. Say she is more than fruit and blossom and branch and I'll nod my head yes. But say the body does not want and I will fall to the floor under the weight of a world that does not need the sweet talk of a heartbeat.

Sonja Livingston