Elizabeth II Quotes

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

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

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

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

I love pregnancy and the bump and the whole thing.

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.

When I began to study baby delivery, when I was about to have a baby, I became very into it and fascinated and what our body does and how a mother's body temperature will rise the minute that the baby touches her chest because she needs to get warmer.

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 watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way.

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is doing - creating a child - it just blows my mind. I'm in awe of the process and science.

There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of my siblings and me. I assisted her. I helped women give birth to a lot of babies when I was very young.

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.

I think pregnancy is a huge responsibility.

Childbirth and being pregnant is something that I've always wanted. I feel like you feel the most feminine; you look the most feminine.

I was always interested in midwifery; it was my plan B.

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

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.

After about five hours of pushing, my midwife and my birthing assistant said, 'You know, we have a few suggestions.' And I was like, 'Really? After five hours of pushing you have a few suggestions? You couldn't have told me five minutes in?'

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.

I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.