Pregnancy Risk Quotes

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

Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she's going to lose her baby or that her baby will lose her mother.

The biggest food-related risk in pregnancy is listeria. It's a dangerous bacteria, to which pregnant women are especially susceptible, that can lead to miscarriage or stillbirth.

The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

I don't think a lot of women know how much their chances of having a child diminish as they age.

As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in Kuwait or Bosnia. Amnesty International reports that women in [the United States] have a higher risk of dying due to pregnancy complications than women in forty-nine other countries (black women are almost four times as likely to die as white women). The United States spends more than any other country on maternal health care, yet our risk of dying or coming close to death during pregnancy or in childbirth remains unreasonably high.

On average, African-American women are 4 times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications. Latina women are at 2 times greater risk.

Every second minute, a woman or a girl dies in the world due to pregnancy.

I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't.

I advise that pregnant women do not come to my concerts.

A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.

Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.

In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.

My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant.