Eva Mendes Quotes

The realities of getting up in the morning with two children and being covered in spit-up and totally filthy make me excited to imagine clothes that aren't made for baby puke. Dressing nicely is a dream now.

I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.

I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.

I had a strong faith that I would, eventually, have a baby.

I was a really bad single mum. I used to go to the supermarket just for somewhere to go.

My parents got divorced when I was about ten years old, but I saw my mom go work two and three jobs to make sure we didn't miss a beat.

Birth Matters... It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother's bodies. It's the means from which we enter and feel our first impression of the wider world. For each mother, it is an event that shakes and shapes her to her innermost core. Women's perceptions about their bodies and their babies' capabilities will be deeply influenced by the care they receive around the time of birth.

Babies and toddlers are mostly what I've been exposed to at this point. I'm hoping parenting just gets much easier after this. It does, right?

Having a baby can be a scream.

I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.

As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.

Sophia Loren, whose new baby asked her, Is all that for me? Never got a dinner!

When I was a baby I had no teeth. I couldn't get a job and I couldn't eat meat.

Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth.

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

Getting pregnant and caring for a baby gave me a confidence I'd never had before. I really felt I'd done something well, and I can't say that about anything else in my life. I've never watched a movie I've appeared in and thought, wow, I was great. I always think, oh, I could have done this better.

The bond between mother and baby is so interesting. Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time, but when it happens to you it feels like a miracle.

My main focus is on becoming a new mom and giving the best of myself to my husband and growing baby.

It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.

What instruction the baby brings to the mother!

"I can't believe you recently had a baby. How do you do it?" The baby starts to come down...and once that happens you can't-it comes out. Whether you let it or not, the baby comes out. So that's how I did it.

Bringing a baby into the world is something I've always wanted, and now I'm completely ready for my life to start revolving around another human being.

Having a baby is definitely a labor of love.

My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude.