Quotes About Challenges

My first pregnancy, I gained 75 pounds.

I don't have those great, strong, glowing pregnancies.

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.

Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced.

Knowing someone else is going through the bizarreness of pregnancy with you makes it feel a little less impossible.

Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.

The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.

I think everybody feels their pregnancy differently, and for me, I was so in work mode.

Pregnancy is a time for women to feel more connected with their bodies, and yet often the opposite occurs.

I think it's important that we challenge the idea that women who have babies are not fit for work and don't have value. There is massive pregnancy discrimination, in parliament and right across society.

It's sad really, I think 'Freedom' would've done better, but it got shelved because of the pregnancy, so it might be something that might get revisited in the future; who knows?

We are genuinely in a world that criticises women even when they are going through the biggest physical challenge of their life: pregnancy.

The experience of pregnancy - it depends on your situation, but it can be quite isolating.

I will say no matter how many times you go through pregnancy and then phase into newborn life, it never becomes routine or normal.

Pregnancy has been a huge lesson in patience and in allowing myself to be open to whatever the day may hand me.

My back is broken because of the last pregnancy.

What happened during my first pregnancy was that I took a lot of hormones. I had problems with my pregnancy and I was bed-ridden. I had tonnes of issues but it was my mental state that consumed me. I felt like I failed at myself.

I despise pregnancy.

One in five women experience a mental health condition during pregnancy, or in the year after giving birth. It can affect any woman. And it can be devastating.

I had placenta previa, which had me on bed rest for almost four to five months after the pregnancy. I just started putting on weight and falling into some kind of place in my head because it went from shows, award functions and a glamorous lifestyle to just not being able to handle what pregnancy was doing to me.

Looking at someone in a deployed setting, it's not in their best interest to get pregnant overseas, but if it happens, it happens.

I'd like to maybe be a judge. I could be pregnant and judge. I just can't be pregnant and dancing!

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

If you can't get pregnant for whatever reason, it's great to know that there are options available for people that want to have a family.