66 Uplifting Pregnancy Quotes for Mums-to-Be

Pregnancy is a wonderful journey for every woman; it is an emotional rollercoaster that is both challenging and beautiful. Pregnancy quotes for mums-to-be inspire and motivate expecting mothers 1as they walk through this stressful yet incredibly rewarding journey.

Pregnancy quotes and sayings are essentially some encouraging or humorous sayings that people have shared. The people who have shared these pregnant quotes and sayings include both well-known figures and others who have personally experienced this wonderful journey.

These pregnancy quotes are not just for mums but also for dads and any other individuals who support their partners during the pregnancy. Pregnancy is a wonderful experience for parents who endure nine months of yearning, excitement, and pain in the hopes of seeing their new bundle of joy.

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1. 66 Uplifting Pregnancy Quotes for Mums-to-Be

Let these pregnancy quotes make you giggle, which will lift your spirits and make pregnant moms and dads feel relaxed. Enjoy these wise, witty, beautiful, inspirational pregnancy quotes to inspire and support parents.2

Feel free to read these pregnancy quotes with an open mind and enjoy, keeping in mind that some of these pregnancy quotes are entertaining and not intended to upset anyone.

1.1. Jessica Simpson:

“People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it’s because you’re sweating to death. “

1.2. Irmgard Erath:

“Now my belly is as noble as my heart.”

1.3. Phyllis Diller:

“By far, the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.”

1.4. Virginia Clinton Kelley:

“There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit—and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.”

1.5. Unknown:

“Birth takes a woman’s deepest fears about herself and shows her that she is stronger than them.”

1.6. Gilda Radner:

“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. “

1.7. E.B. White:

“Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.”

1.8. Osho:

“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. ” And so in you the child, your mother lives on, and through your family continues to live… So at this time, look after yourself and your family as you would your mother, for through you all she will truly never die. “

1.9. Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn:

“In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.”

1.10. John Stevenson:

“A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic, jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman’s crowning creative experience of a lifetime. “

1.11. Adriel Booker:

“Your pregnant elephant ankles will return to normal. Just hang in there.”

1.12. Harriette Hartigan:

“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.”

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1.13. Unknown:

“A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten and the future worth living for.”

1.14. Elizabeth Stone:

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. “

1.15. Tina Fey:

“Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts. “

1.16. Unknown:

“A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.”

1.17. Rosie Pope:

“That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don’t know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it’s just the horizon – and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it’s suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you’ve had the right a mom, you are a superhero , period.”

1.18. Heather Wittenberg:

“Part of being a parent is rolling with the punches, so consider an unexpected pregnancy the universe’s way of helping you to learn to do that.”

1.19. Merete Leonhardt-Lupa:

“Let us make pregnancy an occasion when we appreciate our female bodies.”

1.20. Holly Madison:

“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. “

1.21. Erma Bombeck:

“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.”

1.22. Eda LeShan:

“A new baby is like the beginning of all things—wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.”

1.23. Carl Sandburg:

“A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.”

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1.24. Unknown:

“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. “

1.25. Anne Christian Buchanan:

“To be pregnant is to be vitally alive, thoroughly woman, and distressingly inhabited. Soul and spirit are stretched—along with the body—making pregnancy a time of transition, growth, and profound beginnings.”

1.26. Benjamin Spock:

“What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.”

1.27. Catherine Jones:

“Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain—your life will never be the same.”

1.28. Erma BOMBECK:

“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.”

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1.29. Barretto:

“Babies are bits of star dust, blown from the hand of God.”

1.30. Benjamin Franklin:

“A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.”

1.31. Martha Rose:

“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.”

1.32. Jodi Picoult:

“Sometimes, when you pick up your child, you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood—finding a piece of yourself separate and apart, that all the same, you could not live without. “

1.33. George Bernard Shaw:

“Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.”

1.34. Jared Padalecki:

“There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.”

1.35. Judy Ford:

“Pregnancy is a process that invites you to surrender to the unseen force behind all life.”

1.36. Evan Esar:

“Pregnancy is the only time when you can do nothing at all and still be productive.”

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1.37. Olivia Wilde:

“The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.”

1.38. Suzanne Finnamore:

“When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that. “

1.39. Sandra C. Kassis:

“You never understand life until it grows inside you.”

1.40. Unknown:

“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. “

1.41. Maggie Scarf:

“Pregnancy is getting company inside one’s skin.”

1.42. Unknown:

“No matter how hard my day has been, all it takes is one little kick to make everything feel alright.”

1.43. Rich Cohen:

“It’s an established fact. Some women can’t stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it. “

1.44. Rodney Lacroix:

“A good way to prepare yourself for parenthood is to talk to rocks because they have similar listening habits.”

1.45. Nikki Bella:

“Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.” 

1.46. Christiane Northup:

“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.”

1.47. Sadie Frost:

“I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth. “

1.48. Jane Weideman:

“Giving birth should be your greatest achievement, not your greatest fear.”

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1.49. A Chinese Proverb:

“There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.”

1.50. Emily Blunt:

“The first pregnancy is the most self-indulgent thing in the world because you get massages and prenatal yoga3 and hypnotherapy 4CDs. During this one I forget that I’m even pregnant. I’m hoisting my 2-year-old around! “

1.51. Marry Mason:

“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.”

1.52. Maureen Haukins:

“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. “

1.53. Al Rocker:

“In the pregnancy process, I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She’s got a construction zone going on in her belly. “

1.54. Marie Reild:

“Giving birth is not a matter of pushing, expelling the baby, but of yielding, surrendering to birth energy.”

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1.55. Jill Churchill:

” The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”

1.56. Laura Stavow Harm:

“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong. “

1.57. Andrew Ginsburg:

“My wife and I don’t understand couples where the woman is pregnant and they don’t want to know the sex of the baby. ‘Oh, we want it to be a surprise.’ I mean, you have caller ID but don’t want to know what’s popping out of your vagina? “

1.58. Lao Tzu:

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

1.59. Ocean Vuong:

“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?”

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1.60. Mariska Hargitay:

“When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious, valued, and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they’re pregnant. “

1.61. Emily Perkins:

“That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don’t know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that, after a while, it’s just the horizon — and then one day, birds wheel over that dark shape and it’s suddenly close and all you can do is hope like hell that you’ve had the right shots.”

1.62. Beyoncé:

“It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift. “

1.63. Ruth Morgan:

“Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy sense of duty. Mundane, because they were nothing unique on the suburban streets; ethereal, because their attention was ever somewhere else. Whatever you said was trivial. And they had that preciousness which they imposed wherever they went, compelling attention, constantly reminding you that they carried the future inside, its contours already drawn, but veiled, private, an inner secret. “

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1.64. Thomas C Haliburton:

“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”

1.65. Gabriela Mistral:

“With every newborn baby, a little sun rises.”

1.66. Jayne Mansfield:

“Feeling fat lasts nine months, but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.”

2. The Bottom Line

The above pregnancy quotes were meant to be entertaining and perhaps even inspire all the expectant parents out there. Many of the pregnancy quotes on this list were made by parents who have walked this path and can connect to and understand many of the feelings that expectant parents experience.

Having a baby is indeed a miracle in parents’ lives; perhaps these pregnancy quotes have made you more enthusiastic about the new and adorable addition to your life.

  1. Thomas, Gareth Martin, and Deborah Lupton. “Playing pregnancy: the ludification and gamification of expectant motherhood in smartphone apps.” M/C Journal 18.5 (2015). ↩︎
  2. Bäckström, Caroline, et al. “Midwives’ experiences of providing the “inspirational lecture” as a care intervention for expectant parents—A qualitative study.” Frontiers in Public Health 8 (2020): 575062. ↩︎
  3. Rong, Liu, Li-Jing Dai, and Yan-Qiong Ouyang. “The effectiveness of prenatal yoga on delivery outcomes: A meta-analysis.” Complementary therapies in clinical practice 39 (2020): 101157. ↩︎
  4. Brown, Daniel P., and Erika Fromm. Hypnotherapy and hypnoanalysis. Routledge, 2013. ↩︎

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