Nicole Appleton Quotes

We decided to have the baby at home because we wanted it to be a natural birth, and it turns out that it was 30 hours of natural. Eight hours of pushing - that's the part that men don't understand. Women go, 'Oh, dear, oh, dear God, eight hours of pushing?' And the men are like, 'Okay, eight hours of pushing.'

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!

I get tattooed a lot.

I only thought I'd get one arm done at first. One arm turned into the other arm. Then I started tattooing my lower arms. I remember saying, 'Mom, don't worry, I'm never going to do anything on my neck.' Then I went to my neck and my chest and my legs, and I kept on progressing from there.

After about five hours of pushing, my midwife and my birthing assistant said, 'You know, we have a few suggestions.' And I was like, 'Really? After five hours of pushing you have a few suggestions? You couldn't have told me five minutes in?'

When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12.

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.

I have a tattoo that I got in Memphis, and another I got in Dayton.

The one in the movie is not real, but my Casper tattoo is real, and it is my only one.

Pregnancy changed my body; it changed the way I walk.

I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.

I have a lot of tattoos. I probably have over 100 tattoos. I don't know. It's just a mural... a collage.

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

I had a baby with no pain medicine, mainly because most people I talked to didn't think I'd be able to do it. So there!

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

I cannot understand why any young man - or young woman, for that matter - would wish to undergo the painful process of disfiguring the skin with various multicolored representations of people, animals, and various symbols.

Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.

I'm kind of lucky that we've finished shooting 'Cougar Town,' so I'm able to kind of just enjoy my pregnancy and be a stay-at-home mom and go to prenatal Pilates and do all that fun stuff that, if I were working, would be almost impossible to do.

I don't have tattoos, I have scars!

I wrote a poem on my leg once, on the skin.

We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'

I got my first piercing at the age of 13, my first tattoo at the age of 15.

I have multiple tattoos.

I love being a mom and having two kids. But I've had two C-sections, and I have suffered enough. That's my favourite mantra when it comes to motherhood.