Jennifer Hyman Quotes

You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

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

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.

I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

It's true what they say, and I am now a firm believer in the fact that every pregnancy is different for every woman!

I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.

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

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.

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

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

There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.

The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

Being pregnant is the most natural thing our bodies can do. Our grandparents did it without all these books, and they came out okay.

While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.

When you get pregnant, you start reading pregnancy books. Everything has been pretty textbook. It's amazing how they can say, 'This week, this might happen,' and it kind of does. I had typical nausea the first trimester, which was no fun. And extreme tiredness.

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

I think pregnancy is a huge responsibility.

Becoming pregnant can be difficult at the best of times.

Pregnancy forces you to put your health first.

At about 33 weeks along in my pregnancy, the doctor suggested that I stay pretty close to home and not be touring and flying around. I was really left to face the kind of deep thinking that comes along with being a mother and bringing a child into the world.

The best gift you can give a baby is a full nine months of pregnancy.

I gained 60 pounds, and I'm proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I'm pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat.

I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.

I love being pregnant. You can do whatever you want.

But when you have a baby inside you, you're like 'Whoa!' Anything can happen here, I've got to give this baby all the nutrients it needs and really take care of myself, so this is definitely the healthiest I've ever been in my life.