55 Pregnancy Quotes for Soon-To-Be Moms

There is nothing more wonderful in this world than having two souls in one body. Being pregnant offers unworldly changes and feelings that occur inside any woman. The confusion and pain a woman has to go through cannot be defined by words.

Pregnancy Quotes for Soon-To-Be Moms

I bring you beautiful pregnancy quotes which can truly resonate with you and put all your good and bad pregnancy experiences into one heartwarming expression that you will surely remember.

1. “We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” — Laura Stavoe Harm

2. “It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.” — Beyoncé

3. “Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that, it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.” — Robert Anton Wilson

4. “All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming, growing, turning, floating, and swimming deep, deep inside.” — Crescent Dragonwagon

5. “Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers… strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.” — Barbara Katz Rothman

6. “I am in love with a human I haven’t met yet.” — Unknown

7. “Pregnancy is getting company inside one’s skin.” — Maggie Scarf

8. “Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.” — Carrie Fisher

9. “People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it’s because you’re sweating to death.” — Jessica Simpson

10. “A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born baby, and assures it of a mother’s love.” — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

11. “Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.” — Harriette Hartigan

12. “The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. And so in you, the child your mother lives on and through your family continues to live… so at this time look after yourself and your family as you would your mother for through you all she will truly never die.” — Osho

13. “A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die.” — Mary Mason

14. “A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman’s crowning creative experience of a lifetime.” — John Stevenson

15. “That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don’t know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it’s just the horizon – and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it’s suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you’ve had the right shots.” — Emily Perkins

16. “Making the decision to have a baby is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” — Elizabeth Stone

17. “To be pregnant is to be vitally alive, thoroughly woman, and distressingly inhabited. Soul and spirit are stretched – along with body – making pregnancy a time of transition, growth, and profound beginnings.” — Anne Christian Buchanan

18. “Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of Mother’s Love.” — Maureen Hawkins

19. “In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.” — Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn

20. “Babies are bits of star-dust blown from the hand of God. Lucky is the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star.” — Larry Barretto

21. “Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.” — Robin Lim

22. “To hear a tiny little heart beating next to your very own is the most beautiful sound a mother could ever hear.” — Unknown

23. “You are pregnant and you are powerful. You are bold and you are beautiful. Go forward in your boldness, in your beauty, and in your contentedness. Trust your body to birth and know that the collective power of women worldwide will be with you.” — Unknown

24. “In pregnancy, there are two bodies, one inside the other. Two people live under one skin. When so much of life is dedicated to maintaining our integrity as distinct beings, this bodily tandem is an uncanny fact.” — Joan Raphael-Leff

25. “Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy sense of duty. Mundane, because they were nothing unique on the suburban streets; ethereal because their attention was ever somewhere else. Whatever you said was trivial. And they had that preciousness which they imposed wherever they went, compelling attention, constantly reminding you that they carried the future inside, its contours already drawn, but veiled, private, and an inner secret.” — Ruth Morgan

26. “A mother’s joy begins when new life is stirring inside… when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the very first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.” — Unknown

27. “There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby’s. Your body is the child’s instrument of birth.” — Penelope Leach

28. “I’m never as happy as when I’m pregnant. I literally would have 10 babies if I could!” — Tori Spelling

29. “Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.” — George Bernard Shaw

30. “Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same.” — Catherine Jones

31. “I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to know which I do not wish to unite.” — Mary Wallstonecraft

32. “Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.” — Holly Madison

33. “When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.” — Suzanne Finnamore

34. “Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.” — E. B. White

35. “A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.” — Benjamin Franklin

36. “There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world, it is better than bombing one out of it.” — James Baldwin

37. “Pregnancy is a process that invites you to surrender to the unseen force behind all life.” — Judy Ford

38. “You are pregnant and powerful. You are bold and you are beautiful. Go forward in your boldness, in your beauty and in your contentedness. Trust your body to birth and know the collective power of women worldwide will be with you.” — Unknown

39. “Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.” — Joyce Armor

40. “The life of a mother is the life of a child; you are two blossoms on a single branch.” — Karen Mazezen Miller

41. “There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.” — Pamela S. Nadava

42. “Nine months isn’t so long when you’re waiting for the new love of your life.” — Unknown

43. “Pregnancy seems designed to prepare you for life as a mother. You start making sacrifices nine months before the child is born, so by the time they put in an appearance you are used to giving things up for them.” — Brett Kiellerop

44. “Feeling fat lasts nine months but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.” — Unknown

45. “Let us make pregnancy an occasion when we appreciate our female bodies.” — Merete Leonhardt-Lupa

46. “You never understand life until it grows inside of you.” — Sandra C. Kassis

47. “You do a lot of growing up when you’re pregnant. It’s suddenly like, ‘Yikes. Here it is, folks. Playtime is over.’” — Connie Fioretto

48. “Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.” — Rita Rudner

49. “Now my belly is as noble as my heart.” — Gabriela Mistral

50. “If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.” — Nora Ephron

51. “Giving birth should be your greatest achievement, not your greatest fear.” — Jane Weideman

52. “Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it is forever changing, both mentally and physically.” — Unknown

53. “Giving birth is not a matter of pushing, expelling the baby, but of yielding, surrendering to birth energy.” — Marie Reid

54. “Growing tiny humans is exhausting.” — Unknown

55. “The butterflies he used to give me turned into little feet.” — Unknown

Final Thoughts

The most magical time every woman awaits to have in her lifetime is when she will carry a soul within her. Pregnancy brings joy and happiness of being able to nurture an angel, combined with pain and weariness that will not let her sleep for some days.

However, those tummy-wrenching and confusing times will all soon be forgotten and replaced with indescribable feelings of love at the first cry of an angel — the moment when a woman truly becomes a mother.