I was told it might be quite difficult to conceive, so it really was a great blessing when my pregnancy suddenly happened. I had been diagnosed years ago with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which can affect your fertility – but luckily, in my case, it didn’t.
I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That’s when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy.
Before pregnancy, I would box, do SoulCycle, and do some pretty intense circuit training in the gym. When I got pregnant, I realized I’d need to tone some of that stuff down and remove some altogether, but was determined to maintain the mental and physical health benefits of exercise.
I am 100 percent pro-life and have been my whole life. That means I am opposed to abortion at any stage of pregnancy, and I am opposed to embryonic stem-cell research.
The Democratic policy is any abortion, any time, for any reason at any point in a woman’s pregnancy, right up until the last minute, to be paid by taxpayers. Barbara Boxer described this policy as, ‘It’s not a life until it leaves the hospital.’
They say pregnancies can differ depending on whether you’re carrying a girl or boy, so for me, I think having a little boy is definitely easier on my body – or I’m just better prepared!
I believe in the right to choose. I have chosen to end a pregnancy before.
I was always a little worried, because I had heard different things from different people about their pregnancies; some people have to stay in bed for months… you never know what you’re going to get.
Every second minute, a woman or a girl dies in the world due to pregnancy.
It’s amazing, the mentality shift that occurs in pregnancy. All of a sudden you want to be good to yourself.
A diva should be able to get some time off for pregnancy without fearing her career will be on the line.
Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.
I don’t have those great, strong, glowing pregnancies.
I had a perfect pregnancy and a perfect delivery. I was very blessed.
I am not just pro-birth. I believe in supporting a woman during and after pregnancy.
Every day Black women are subjected to harsh and racist treatment during pregnancy and childbirth. Every day Black women die because the system denies our humanity. It denies us patient care.
I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can’t find a way of avoiding it.
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
I’m a little disappointed in myself because before getting pregnant, I resolved to do all these things during my pregnancy to nurse a healthy pregnancy. And so I’m finding in these final weeks that I didn’t do any of them.
Ballet Beautiful has made my pregnancy a joy. I’ve avoided back pain and swelling by keeping my core strong and body moving.
I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability.
A lot of women use pregnancy as an excuse to let their bodies go, and that’s the worst thing.
I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I’m thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can’t wait to welcome my son.
The worst part about pregnancy would definitely have to be my nausea. I don’t know why it’s just called morning sickness because morning sickness never just happened in the morning for me and it’s not happening just in the morning for my sister.
The experience of pregnancy – it depends on your situation, but it can be quite isolating.
Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I’ve got a life that is demanding my attention, so I’ve gone to prenatal yoga once. It’s such a bummer.
Pregnancy is treated like an illness in some sections of our society.
Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it’s forever-changing, both mentally and physically.
Pregnancy is something that I always love. It’s about hope and the future and a new baby.
There’s a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.
I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife’s pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, ‘Oh, my God! I’m a parent!’
My company, Ballet Beautiful, is built around celebrating the strength and femininity of the female body – for me, pregnancy has just been an extension of that.
I’ve had great pregnancies, and healthy, beautiful children.
They say that your second trimester is when you get most of your energy and it’s the ‘easiest’ part of the pregnancy.
The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.
Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee are like my brothers. If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t have gotten through my pregnancy.
Not to be too detailed, but I’ve had an ectopic pregnancy, miscarriages and I’ve had fertility treatments. I’ve done all the stuff you can possibly do to try get pregnant.
If you were fit before your pregnancy, a Pilates program will quickly help restore your figure and your energy.
No woman should fear losing her life from pregnancy or childbirth.
The older I get though, the more scared I am about the pregnancy situation. I don’t want to be too old that I can’t enjoy it.
I was very active during both my pregnancies.
My pregnancy was a free for all. I had no boundaries. I just ate, ate, ate. I just said, ‘This is my time, these are my nine months; I can just have fun. How big can I really get?’ Sixty pounds! I gained 60 pounds!
It’s true what they say, and I am now a firm believer in the fact that every pregnancy is different for every woman!
Of course everybody is different, but if you’re having a strong, healthy pregnancy, there’s not a lot you can do to hurt it. That being said, we should do as right as we can by our children, but we just need to be a little more forgiving of ourselves and not so much perfectionists because it’s hard enough as it is.
I can say this: You haven’t lived until you’ve had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.
People expect all women to react the same to pregnancy. But anyone who’s been around pregnant women knows that it’s not all cutesy and sweet. You spaz out and you’re angry and you have tantrums.
I’m at the stage in my pregnancy where I don’t feel pregnant. You feel very, ‘Oh yeah, I’m pregnant,’ because you’re over the morning sickness and it’s not too uncomfortable. It’s fun.
I create from a place of passion. It’s like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRCs) are constantly in the crosshairs of the abortion industry. They are angry that PRCs take away clients who would otherwise use them for abortion. They lose lots of money to PRCs every year – and are vastly outnumbered.
Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big – I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.
Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
I’m trying to be in the moment and really enjoy my pregnancy. I feel really lucky.
We want to make legislation; we want to put laws on women’s uteruses and whether or not they can protect themselves from pregnancy or whatever, but we don’t want to protect you once you’re pregnant.
With Ciel and with Rex, I said ‘no epidural.’ I recovered, I was walking right after I had them, just did a lot of praying all through my pregnancy that they would be healthy and my deliveries would go without a problem. I was really blessed.
It’s about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
I’ve been my normal self during pregnancy. I want other women who get nervous and anxious to experience the same comfort as me and to not feel awkward about their weight or baby bump.
A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
I’m obsessed with that show ‘Call The Midwife’. Although I had to take a break at a certain point in my pregnancy because every episode is about having babies.
I am one of those people for whom pregnancy is an ordeal.
My sister learned she was a carrier for a recessive disease, Bloom syndrome, late in one of her pregnancies. I remember the panicked call and the weeks of worry as she and her husband awaited his test results; if he was also a carrier, this meant their daughter had a one in four chance of being born with the disorder.
