61 Best Uplifting Quotes About Pregnancy
Whether you’ve already experienced carrying a child or this is your first pregnancy, expecting a baby is an amazing and life-changing adventure. Quotes about pregnancy can bring on feelings of love, laughter, joy, and excitement.
Sometimes reading quotes about your pregnancy journey can simply make you feel like other women understand what you’re going through. Other times you might just need to look up something funny for a good laugh!
Either way, we’ve got you covered. In this post, discover over 60 pregnancy quotes. You’ll find quotes from books, from famous people, and some that were found online but the author is unknown.
If you’re looking for quotes specifically to use to announce your pregnancy, these quotes for expecting have a variety of great options!
Pregnancy Journey Quotes
“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
“Being pregnant means every day is another day closer to meeting the other love of my life.”
― Unknown
"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
“No matter how bad my day’s been, it takes one little kick to make everything feel alright.”
― Unknown
“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
“There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.”
― Toba Beta
“Pregnancy is the only time when you can do nothing at all and still be productive.”
― Evan Esar
“Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear.”
― Jane Weideman
“Birth takes a woman’s deepest fears about herself and show her that she is stronger than them.”
― Unknown
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Inspirational Pregnancy Quotes
“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
“Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me re-evaluate my personal and professional goals.”
― Holly Madison
“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
“It’s unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle, indeed. Such an incredible blessing.”
― Jennie Finch
“It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.”
― Beyoncé
“In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.”
― Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
“All pregnant women are warriors. It takes strength just to get up and go to work.”
― Camilla Luddington
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“A new baby is like the beginning of all things – wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.”
― Eda LeShan
“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.”
― Laura Stavoe Harm
“Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.”
― Harriette Hartigan
“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
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Pregnancy Happiness Quotes
“Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.”
― Tina Brown
“You are proof that love before first sight does exist.”
― Araceli M. Ream
“A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.”
― Unknown
“When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well.
I felt much more useful than I’d ever felt before.”
― Suzanne Vega
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“Words can not express the joy of new life.”
― Hermann Hesse
“I’m in love with a human I haven’t met yet.”
― Unknown
“When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness.
We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.”
― Suzanne Finnamore, The Zygote Chronicles
“I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.”
― Sadie Frost
“Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.”
― Jayne Mansfield
“There is something very beautiful about being pregnant. I think I enjoy being pregnant more than not being pregnant.”
― Chrissy Teigen
Funny Pregnancy Quotes
“People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it’s because you’re sweating to death.”
― Jessica Simpson
“I used to have a terrific flat stomach but now it’s kind of blown out after two giant babies used it as a short-term apartment.”
― Amy Poehler
“It’s a great thing about being pregnant, you don’t need excuses to pee or eat.”
― Angelina Jolie
“I have two brains in my body, but I’ve never been so dumb!”
― Gloria from Modern Family
“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
"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
“Being pregnant was the healthiest I’ve ever been in my life. Except for the cupcakes.”
― Ashlee Simpson
“Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.”
― Rita Rudner
Cute Pregnancy Quotes
“I’m never as happy as when I’m pregnant. I literally would have 10 babies if I could!”
― Tori Spelling
“Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
“A grand adventure is about to begin.”
― Winnie the Pooh
“Feeling fat lasts nine months, but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.”
― Nikki Bella
Short Pregnancy Quotes
“You are the closest I will ever come to magic.”
― Suzanne Finnamore
“You are already my favorite adventure.”
― Hannah Ferrier
“Now my belly is as noble as my heart.”
― Gabriela Mistral
“You never understand life until it grows inside you.”
― Sandra C. Kassis
“Pregnancy is getting company inside one’s skin.”
― Maggie Scarf
“The wonder of life begins in the womb of a woman.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
Unplanned Pregnancy Quotes
“A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.”
― Patricia Heaton
“You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment you will ever make.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley
“Making a decision to have a child–it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
― Elizabeth Stone
“Pregnancy has been a huge lesson in patience and in allowing myself to be open to whatever the day may hand me.”
― Anna Kaiser
Positive Pregnancy Quotes
“Let us make pregnancy an occasion when we appreciate our female bodies.”
― Merete Leonhardt-Lupa
“In pregnancy, there are two bodies, one inside the other. Two people live under one skin.
When so much of life is dedicated to maintaining our integrity as distinct beings, this bodily tandem is an uncanny fact.”
― Joan Raphael-Leff
“Being pregnant finally helped me 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
“Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.”
― Joyce Armor
“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
“A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love”
― Thomas C Haliburton
“A mother’s joy begins when new life is stirring inside… when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the very first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.”
― Unknown
“A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.”
― Benjamin Franklin
“A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth.”
― Jennie Finch
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We’d love to hear if you have any favorite quotes from our list. Or maybe you’ve got a suggestion that you’d like added?
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