Lennon Parham Quotes

I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological.

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

I wanted to be a 'jungle mom', where you're giving birth and getting up and doing things straightaway.

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.

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

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

My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.

It took me three and a half years to become a mom, so it makes me feel so good to know I'm giving my baby the best chance I can to develop a strong immune system and live a healthy life.

Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

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

When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.

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.

Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.

I'm kind of lucky that we've finished shooting 'Cougar Town,' so I'm able to kind of just enjoy my pregnancy and be a stay-at-home mom and go to prenatal Pilates and do all that fun stuff that, if I were working, would be almost impossible to do.

It's scary having a baby, especially as a first-time mother. I think a lot of women can relate to having a moment during the process where you're like, 'You know what? No thanks, I don't want to do this anymore.'

Personally, I'd have a baby just for the epidural.

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.

You always wonder when you get pregnant what projects and opportunities will come in or come knocking.

When I'm ready, I'll have a baby - and I will love that.

There's no substitute for the experience of childbearing or child rearing.

"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.

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny.