Laura Whitmore Quotes

We had a miscarriage.

In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

Four months is a lot of living with that little life in you-thinking about it, eating right for it, nurturing it and all of a sudden, it dies.

I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them.

I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.

You always hear about people going through miscarriages and you never understand what one is like unless you go through it.

I have such a lovely life and I just never imagined that I would miscarry a baby.

I have one little pooch-y stomach in a picture, and all of a sudden I'm pregnant.

A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare.

People don't say they're pregnant until the second trimester. I intellectually understand that you don't want the whole world to know your business, but at the same time, what does that mean? You don't tell your employers you're pregnant, but then when you miscarry, no one knows you miscarried. Miscarrying is a horrible, painful event.

We're pretty sure Liz fell pregnant on our wedding night.

It can get discouraging - 'Oh, it didn't work,' or, 'Oh, I lost the baby,' or, 'I can't do this again.' You can. And when you get the kid, you'll be happy that you did. But it's a very painful process for a lot of people. You just have to figure out how it's gonna get done.

My biological mother had me at 16, and it was just too young.

When you're first pregnant, you don't want to talk about the idea that a miscarriage or premature birth is possible. The difficulties of things like that kind of get swept under the rug, and when they happen to us we are blindsided and think we are the only people going through it.

Hearing that I had a 3 percent chance of ever having kids was one of the more devastating moments in my life.

I put out a call on Twitter and Facebook and email for women to tell me their stories about their abortions. And many women said, 'I told my boyfriend I was pregnant, and that was the last I ever heard of them.'

I think I'll probably be pregnant all through my 30s. I've always pictured everyone around the table for the holidays and together once a week. It'll be heartbreaking if it doesn't end up happening, but hopefully it will. We've got some embryos on hold.

I went through years of unsuccessful fertility treatments, first in my hometown of D.C., then in New York City, where it finally happened - I got pregnant with my son, my miracle boy.

You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even that, terrible as it is, than be as I am without hope of any children.

Having seen many of my friends go through the trial of trying month after month to conceive, then finally the joy of getting pregnant followed by the heartbreak of miscarriage, I know how lonely and isolating it can be to have to go back to square one carrying that heartbreak with you.

I do feel at a loss for not having a child of my own at times, very much so.

I wanted to talk to a lot of women about their experiences along the path to motherhood - or along the path to not being a mother.

IVF is a wonderful thing. One has to ignore the injections as the reality is that nobody is going to invent a pill that you can take to get a baby.

It took me a year to talk about my miscarriage.