Ben Sasse Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

The idea for 'Ballet Baby' started when I was going through my own pregnancy.

There's only so much planning you can do when it comes to pregnancies, y'know.

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.

To try to help people have babies in a healthy way and to celebrate the process of delivering a child which will be healthy is, I think, almost the best part of healthcare.

Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse...I've seen ultrasounds...you know that those babies are real.

And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.

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

Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics.

We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.

The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.

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

I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy.

Sprout's a really cool app for pregnant women. It shows you what your baby's development is in real time, so I find myself checking it quite often.

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.

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

The way things have changed. The pictures in the womb they have now. They're just amazing. They're just like a snapshot of a person.

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.