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.
Quotes for Pregnant and Getting Pregnant Mom
- “Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.”
- “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
- “A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth.”
- “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
- “Pregnancy is the only time when you can do nothing at all and still be productive.” — Evan Esar
- “A new baby is like the beginning of all things – wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.”
- “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.”
- “A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.” — Unknown
- “You never understand life until it grows inside of you.” — Sandra Chami Kassis
- “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
- “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
- “Pregnancy is getting company inside one’s skin.” — Maggie Scarf
- “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
- “My body has given me the greatest gift of my life.”
- “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.”
- “Motherhood: The only place you can experience heaven and hell at the same time.” — Unknown
- “Babies are always more trouble than you thought—and more wonderful.” — Charles Osgood
- “What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.” — Benjamin Spock
- “You are the closest I will ever come to magic.” — Suzanne Finnamore
- “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” — Franklin P. Jones
- “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.”
- “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.”
- “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.”
- “The wonder of life begins in the womb of a woman.”
- “In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.” — Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
- “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
- “It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.” — Peter Buffett
- “Life is a crazy ride. It’s a privilege to go through it with a partner.” — Kristen Bell
- “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
- “There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” — Chinese Proverb “A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.” ― Benjamin Franklin
- “We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” — Laura Stavoe Harm
- “Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.”
- “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” — Lin Yutang
- “In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.” — Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “You are the closest I will ever come to magic.” — Suzanne Finnamore
- “A grand adventure is about to begin.” — Winnie the Pooh
- “Let us make pregnancy an occasion when we appreciate our female bodies.” — Merete Leonhardt-Lupa
- “A new baby is like the beginning of all things – wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.” — Eda LeShan
- “Children reinvent your world for you.” — Susan Sarandon
- “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
- “It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus—that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers, saying, with our entire curved and silent selves, more, more, more. I want to insist that our being alive is beautiful enough to be worthy of replication. And so what? So what if all I ever made of my life was more of it?” — Ocean Vuong
- “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
- “You are already my favorite adventure.” — Hannah Ferrier
- “You never understand life until it grows inside you.” — Sandra C. Kassis