50 Pregnancy Quotes for Moms-to-Be that Describe What Being Pregnant is All About

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

  1. “Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.”– Jayne Mansfield
  2. “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
  3. “Being pregnant was the healthiest I’ve ever been in my life. Except for the cupcakes.” — Ashlee Simpson
  4. “A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth.”– Jennie Finch
  5. “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
  6. “Pregnancy is the only time when you can do nothing at all and still be productive.” — Evan Esar
  7. “A new baby is like the beginning of all things – wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.”– Eda LeShan
  8. “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
  9. “A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.” — Unknown
  10. “You never understand life until it grows inside of you.” — Sandra Chami Kassis
  11. “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
  12. “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
  13. “Pregnancy is getting company inside one’s skin.” — Maggie Scarf
  14. “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
  15. “My body has given me the greatest gift of my life.”– Hilary Duff
  16. “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
  17. “Motherhood: The only place you can experience heaven and hell at the same time.” — Unknown
  18. “Babies are always more trouble than you thought—and more wonderful.” — Charles Osgood
  19. “What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.” — Benjamin Spock
  20. “You are the closest I will ever come to magic.” — Suzanne Finnamore
  21. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” — Franklin P. Jones
  22. “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
  23. “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.”– Lin Yutang
  24. “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
  25. “The wonder of life begins in the womb of a woman.”– Lailah Gifty Akita
  26. “In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.” — Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
  27. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller
  28. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
  29. “It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.” — Peter Buffett
  30. “Life is a crazy ride. It’s a privilege to go through it with a partner.” — Kristen Bell
  31. “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
  32. “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
  33. “We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” — Laura Stavoe Harm
  34. “Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.”– Kate Douglas Wiggin
  35.  “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” — Lin Yutang
  36. “In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.” — Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
  37. “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
  38. “Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.” — George Bernard Shaw
  39. “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
  40. “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
  41. “You are the closest I will ever come to magic.” — Suzanne Finnamore
  42. “A grand adventure is about to begin.” — Winnie the Pooh
  43. “Let us make pregnancy an occasion when we appreciate our female bodies.” — Merete Leonhardt-Lupa
  44. “A new baby is like the beginning of all things – wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.” — Eda LeShan
  45. “Children reinvent your world for you.” — Susan Sarandon
  46. “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
  47. “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
  48. “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
  49. “You are already my favorite adventure.” — Hannah Ferrier
  50. “You never understand life until it grows inside you.” — Sandra C. Kassis

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