Jason Reitman Quotes

Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.

It's amazing, the mentality shift that occurs in pregnancy. All of a sudden you want to be good to yourself.

Being pregnant is a conundrum. You have this freedom, because it's a wonderful time that a human being is growing inside of you, and it is truly magical. On the other hand, your body changes.

I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here.

Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.

I can honestly say - not proudly, but honestly - before I had a child, I would see things on TV or hear the news, feel sad for the people and move forward with my day. Now I see everything through a mother's eyes.

I wrote and recorded 'Outside the War' and 'Run from the Races' while I was nine months pregnant.

The frustrations and joys of parenthood are just hard to understand until you have a kid... the constant fight you're having with yourself, like loving being with your kid but also being kind of bored and wanting to look at your iPhone - it's kind of an interesting thing that's hard to write about before you've experienced it.

It's just heaven to be a mom, and a working mom, and a pregnant person in Shondaland.

I feel like being pregnant and entering this new stage has made me stronger and more excited about life in general. Everything seems so much more purposeful.

I don't think anything changes after marriage. Things change in a big way after becoming a mother.

I'm doing it. I'm going to become a mom.

Getting pregnant proved to be a hell of a shock but it's really exciting.

So much of my body changed from being pregnant. My hair got so much longer from all of the multivitamins and pregnancy vitamins, like the New Chapter's Every Woman Vitamin I've been taking - it's a lot of folic acid. I know a lot of moms cut their hair, but I just want to keep mine long.

Every woman who has been pregnant knows that it messes with your mind a little bit. You are suddenly someone else: you are a mother who is now responsible for another human being. That's awesome, but it changes who you are.

The idea for 'Ballet Baby' started when I was going through my own pregnancy.

During the pregnancy and stuff, I knew I had a daughter coming but when she finally got here that is when it really hit me. Ever since that day, I look at life a lot differently.

Pregnancy has been a huge lesson in patience and in allowing myself to be open to whatever the day may hand me.

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

It's lovely. I hate it.

I think that at the time, when I was first pregnant, it was hard to make the transition from being totally self-involved to not being able to think about myself at all. At the end of the day, I think that's the best thing that someone can go through. I think it makes you a better person. It doesn't mean that people who don't go through that aren't good people. For me, it was a good thing.

I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.

I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter.

I have so much hate that it has turned into love.

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.