#pregnancy

I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#again #ever #first #i #never

Kev,” Win said calmly, stepping forward, “I would like to talk to you about something.” Merripen, attentive as always to his wife, gave her a frowning glance. “Now?” "Yes, now.” "Can’t it wait?” "No,” Win said equably. At his continued hesitation, she said, “I’m expecting.” Merripen blinked. “Expecting what?” "A baby.” They all watched as Merripen’s face turned ashen. “But how ...” he asked dazedly, nearly staggering as he headed to Win. "How?” Leo repeated. “Merripen, don’t you remember that special talk we had before your wedding night?” He grinned as Merripen gave him a warning glance. Bending to Win’s ear, Leo murmured, “Well done. But what are you going to tell him when he discovers it was only a ploy?” "It’s not a ploy,” Win said cheerfully. Leo’s smile vanished, and he clapped a hand to his forehead. “Christ,” he muttered. “Where’s my brandy?” And he disappeared into the house. "I’m sure he meant to say ‘congratulations,’ ” Beatrix remarked brightly, following the group as they all went inside. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#pregnancy #humor

When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep it close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#mother #motherhood #parents #pregnancy #life

My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body. ↗

— Melissa McCarthy

#almost #back #body #destroyed #did

'Good Morning America' exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#acknowledge #after #air #america #babies

The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy. ↗

— Jonathan Klein

#best way #does #evidence #interventions #keep

It must be quite a shock to suddenly find out you're pregnant, seventeen times over—at your age, too. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#pregnancy #age

Holly's forgiven you?" "Almost mostly. But she still gives me slack about it when she's sick. I take it as a husbandly badge," he said, puffing out his chest. "Sick? You told me she was fully immortal." "Yeah, but she still throws up some, because, well, the thing of it is... Ah, fuck, Rydstrom, I knocked her up." "You're going to be a father?" Gods help the world. I'm going to be an uncle? "I got Holly, like, on the first shot. Nix is calling me Bull's-eye and the Womb Raider. ↗

— Kresley Cole

#funny #holly-s-pregnancy #kresley-cole #rydstrom #funny

Then they took us to the birthing suite, which I call the electronic bullshit room because it's full of all sorts of electronic bullshit we can't fathom but are just glad to have on principle. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#pregnancy #humor

I love pregnancy and the bump and the whole thing. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#i #i love #love #pregnancy #thing