Whether you love being pregnant, or not so much – pregnancy is undeniably a miraculous few months of your life. You feel amazing and weird and lots of other feelings that you’ve never encountered. This is why pregnant women (like you) turn to pregnancy quotes.

Here are some beautiful and funny pregnancy quotes, some inspirational quotes, and many pregnancy quotes about what it really feels like to be pregnant.

Pregnancy Quotes That Truly Capture The Essence Of Being Pregnant

A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty. – Unknown
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.
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
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
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
A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. -Unknown
A new baby is like the beginning of all things – wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. – Eda LeShan
All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming, growing, turning, floating, swimming deep, deep inside? – Crescent Dragonwagon
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
Before you were born I carried you under my heart. From the moment you arrived in this world until the moment I leave it, I will always carry you in my heart. – Mandy Harrison
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
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.” – Robin Lim
Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy. – Jayne Mansfield
There is no feeling like holding the whole world in your belly. – Unknown
Every month has an average of 30 days, except for the last month of pregnancy, which has about 1330 days. – Unknown
Everyone knows food is important to pregnant women. But what the uninitiated might not realize is that time is of the essence. The bottom line is, when she says she’s hungry, she means it.
Feed that woman immediately or she will eat your f***ing face. – Aaron Gouveia
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
Giving birth should be your greatest achievement, not your greatest fear. – Jane Weideman
Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch. – E.B. White,Charlotte’s Web
I’m either so hungry that I feel like my body is being sucked into a black hole, or so full I can’t breathe. There is no in-between. – Unknown
In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves. –Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
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
Happiness if feeling your baby kicking inside you. – Unknown
If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished every moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle. – Erma Bombeck
No matter how bad my day’s been, it takes one little kick to make everything feel alright. – Author Unknown
It’s an established fact. Some women can’t stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it. ― Rich Cohen
Let us make pregnancy an occasion when we appreciate our female bodies. – Merete Leonhardt-Lupa
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born. – George Bernard Shaw
Pregnancy is the happiest excuse for feeling like crap. – Unknown
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
My back hurts, I pee all the time, everything makes me nauseous, I can’t see my feet… but I love being pregnant! – Unknown
Pregnancy is a process that invites you to surrender to the unseen force behind all life. – Judy Ford
Pregnancy is getting company inside one’s skin. – Maggie Scarf
Not every day of pregnancy is easy, but every day brings you closer to the day you finally meet your baby. – Unknown
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. – Erica Jong
Prenatal yoga focuses on breathing and stretching. So does napping. – Unknown
There is a power that comes to women when they give birth. They don’t ask for it, it simply invades them. Accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it. – Sheryl Feldman
There is no better feeling than the movement of life inside you. – Unknown
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
Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes. – Joyce Armor
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. – Osho
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
Waiting for your baby to be born is the hardest and most beautiful thing to do. – Unknown
When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that. – Suzanne Finnamore
Now that I’m pregnant, I make involuntary sound effects whenever I get up. – Unknown
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
You are the closest I will ever come to magic. – Suzanne Finnamore
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
Feeling fat lasts nine months but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever. – Nikki Dalton
A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on. – Carl Sandburg
You never understand life until it grows inside of you. -Sandra Chami Kassis
Being pregnant is when you fall in love with someone you haven’t met yet. – Unknown

Famous People And Celebrity Pregnancy Quotes

A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman are the handsomest two things that can be seen common. –Benjamin Franklin
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
I feel like I have a bowling ball sitting on my hoo-ha! – Jessica Simpson
I’m never as happy as when I’m pregnant. I literally would have 10 babies if I could! – Tori Spelling
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. -Nora Ephron
It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift. – Beyoncé
It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing. – Angelina Jolie
It’s a great thing about being pregnant, you don’t need excuses to pee or eat. — Angelina Jolie
It’s a really magical time, those first few weeks. It almost makes you wish you didn’t have to tell anyone, ever. You could just watch your belly grow bigger, and no one would be allowed to ask you about it, and you would have your baby and a year later you would allow visitors to finally come and meet your little miracle. ― Amy Poehler
It’s amazing, the mentality shift that occurs in pregnancy. All of a sudden, you want to be good to yourself. — Elisabeth Hasselbeck
People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it’s because you’re sweating to death. – Jessica Simpson
Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced. — Elisabeth Hasselbeck
There is something very beautiful about being pregnant. I think I enjoy being pregnant more than not being pregnant. I know it could go either way, and the next pregnancy could be the complete opposite. ― Chrissy Teigen
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
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