Pregnancy Quotes

"Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife."
-Queen Victoria

"It has been the policy of the Bush Administration to tell other countries how they should and should not run their family planning, pregnancy, and HIV prevention and treatment agencies."
-Robin Collins

"We don't know what we're going to do after that. I have my daughter in Molino. But she has a high-risk pregnancy, and I don't want to bring her any stress."
-Debra Gill

"What is frequently lost in translation is that our pregnancy rates are anywhere from 40 to 60% higher than other areas of the world."
-David Adamson

"The rampant rate of teen pregnancy is a job killer."
-Tim Sheehy

"If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters."
-Nora Ephron

"There was no medical reason that would prevent a successful-term pregnancy with her through the use of donated eggs."
-Jane Miller

"You check the pregnancy test every month, and when it comes up negative it can start to wear on you."
-Cindy Margolis

"I spent my pregnancy lying on the couch, eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and working on a budget."
-Jenny Mckenzie

"People want an affordable way to memorialize their pregnancies. They're creating special memories for their pregnancy and special memories for their baby."
-Marlo Robinson

"My life changed from the moment I saw that blue stripe on the pregnancy test, ... I knew I couldn't have a fag or a drink."
-Sara Cox

"Any patient could potentially develop gestational diabetes because during pregnancy the placenta makes some hormones that normally increase your blood sugar."
-Jose Gonzales

"We're not sure exactly why (that happens), but it's in part due to hormonal changes during pregnancy. It seems to be very common (among pregnant women with MS). The disease seems to go in remission and is exacerbated after giving birth."
-Karen Butler

"One of the most common complaints I have heard from patients over the years from offering second trimester screening is that they would much prefer to have this information much earlier in pregnancy."
-Fergal Malone

"People usually think the last trimester of pregnancy is when developing brain function is most susceptible to damage, but in this case the brain is also affected by methamphetamine even in the earlier embryonic period."
-Peter Wells

"The scientific and medical definition of abortion is after implantation, ... These birth control pills are used to prevent pregnancy, not to stop it. This is not abortion."
-Mary Pendergast

"It has been difficult to predict whether pregnancy will be achieved for couples when different factors are at play. We designed this computational model to help the physician who is planning IVF/ICSI for patients. The physician may use the model to plan the best approach and counsel the patients appropriately."
-Moshe Wald

"We have to find out if it's exposure to smoking during pregnancy, or early experiences, exposure to lead, these are all potential factors that we have some inkling of, but we don't know how they interact with genetic predispositions."
-Peter Jensen

"Weight loss after pregnancy is safe but requires attention and guidelines."
-Debbie Meyer

"The biggest problem is maintaining the pregnancy."
-Mark Westhusin

"Clearly, if you ask a teenage boy if he plans on pregnancy, he will probably say no. But just because he doesn't plan to get someone pregnant, that doesn't mean he won't. In order to address teenage pregnancy, we need to ask the questions in different ways."
-Cynthia Rosengard

"I would say that definitely for pregnancy and for motion sickness or sea sickness and for post-operative nausea, it seems to work very, very well."
-Suzanna Zick

"They give you standard advice about birth control. But at least in my experience, they never talked about family planning other than preventing pregnancy."
-Beth Espy

"The risk is relatively low. About 99% percent of women exposed to one of these medications during the latter half of pregnancy will deliver an infant unaffected by PPHN."
-Christina Chambers

"I remember distinctly telling my father-in-law, barring a miracle, we're going to have to terminate the pregnancy. Her health has to come first."
-Chris Higgins

"It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry."
-H. L. Mencken

"Nothing Sexy about Pregnancy."
-Heidi Klum

"New mothers are extraordinarily busy, but that doesn't necessarily translate into calories burned. And even if you're breast-feeding, you only need about 200 more calories per day than you required during pregnancy."
-Ruth Frechman