Courtney Love Quotes

Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.

My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.

I don't have those great, strong, glowing pregnancies.

I did suffer from sciatica, which was one of the most painful things I've ever experienced. Lots of women love being pregnant and say they feel really womanly, but I felt really ungraceful and struggled a bit with that!

I feel tired, but in general, I do love being pregnant and always feel pretty good. I'm lucky. I always hear, like, horror stories.

Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically.

Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.

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've had great pregnancies, and healthy, beautiful children.

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

They say that your second trimester is when you get most of your energy and it's the 'easiest' part of the pregnancy.

I loved my second trimester! I didn't feel sick anymore and had more energy. My bloated belly turned into a baby bump, and I definitely looked pregnant. That was a relief because when I was around 4.5 months, you could see people having this inner monologue with themselves, wondering if I ate too much pizza or if I was pregnant.

Being pregnant was the healthiest I've ever been in my life. Except for the cupcakes.

There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'

Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.

In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

The biggest food-related risk in pregnancy is listeria. It's a dangerous bacteria, to which pregnant women are especially susceptible, that can lead to miscarriage or stillbirth.

My pregnancy was great, but the last three weeks were manic because my blood pressure was going up and up.

Nausea is a normal but unpleasant effect of pregnancy and a really good sign that it is going well. Women who experience nausea in early pregnancy are less likely to miscarry.

You don't want people to suffer or get fat when they're pregnant.

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.

Pregnancy is uncomfortable and draining, and the end isn't in sight until it becomes unbearable.

Sharing our experience with pregnancy was incredibly important because we realized how challenging and difficult that was, and there are really dark moments where you think you're alone.

I never understood when people go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so easy being pregnant.' No, it's hard. It's the most beautiful thing, yes, but it's hard.

There has been a lot of media attention around the dangers of drugs used to treat mental illness on the fetus.