Quotes About Pregnancy

When meat is grilled, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are also produced, one of the probable carcinogens in cigarette smoke. The researchers discovered that not only was the ingestion of grilled meat in the third trimester associated with smaller birth weights, mothers merely exposed to the fumes tended to give birth to babies with a birth weight deficit. Exposure to the fumes was also associated with a smaller head size, an indicator of brain volume.

It is a reflection of a well-known social problem during the Victorian age, when female servants were often made pregnant by the master of the house or one of his sons.

More evidence against abstinence-only programs may be gleaned from the 2013 National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health published in the British Medical Journal and conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between 1995 and 2009 on more than seventy-eight hundred women; remarkably, it was discovered that 0.5 percent—or one in two hundred—of adolescent girls had reported that they'd become pregnant without sex. Are

I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb.

It's a sad thing, of course, but miscarriages reveal the wisdom of nature. It's for the best that you don't give birth when it isn't good for your health. A miscarriage indicates that the woman can conceive, so it is not necessarily a fertility matter.

I know you want me to leave. I understand that. But I can't, princess … You're pregnant. And you're alone." "Lots of women have babies on their own." "Not my baby, Abby.

Even pregnancies should be included in the games of probabilities, like tossing a coin.

There was a woman whose body was swollen up with child, and she got stuck in the log. After that, no one could get through, and that is why the Kiowas are a small tribe in number.

You should sit," Lucas said, and he wasn't talking to Mercy. Sascha stared at him. "I didn't realize pregnancy of four weeks' duration made me incapable of standing upright." "It makes me incapable of reason.

This would never have happened if you had just found her for me when I asked you to," I explode, rounding on him. "This is why she disappeared. She found out she was pregnant." "You don't know that." "I have a child out there, Yef. A boy. And he doesn't know who his father is.

Pitocin, the drug given to pregnant women to jump-start recalcitrant labor, is a synthetic version of oxytocin.

The attrition continues, though at a more sedate pace, throughout a woman's youth and early middle age. At most, 450 of her eggs will be solicited for ovulation, and far fewer than that if she spends a lot of time being pregnant and thus not ovulating.

When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.

The seventh blast symbolises the seventh day, a time of stillness or rest, the interval between the subjective and objective states, a period of pregnancy or joyful expectancy. This stillness is not the stillness of the body but rather the stillness of the mind—a perfect passivity which is not indolence but a living stillness born of trust in this immutable law of consciousness.

it's tragic that up to 40 percent of all pregnancies globally are unplanned or unwanted—and that almost half of those result in induced abortions. By some measures, more than one quarter of all maternal deaths could be avoided if there were no unplanned and unwanted pregnancies.

The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.

Feeling fat lasts nine months but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.

An ideal feminist world would not be one in which abortions were free and common, but one in which women would have greater control over pregnancy, and in which the circumstances that make pregnancies unwanted, would have been transformed. Until then, in a hugely imperfect, unfair and sexist world, I believe feminists must defend women's access to legal and safe abortions, whenever they decide to have them, whatever the reason for their decision.

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.

With the excesses of the gender revolution the revolt against terms and categories becomes a revolt against reality, and all the rest of us are pressured to deny the obvious, believe in the incredible, and go along with the charade of the emperor's new clothes. ("Only a woman can get pregnant," but such truisms are now held to be false and offensive.)

One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.

Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.

If I ever have a baby, I'm going to have a Brazilian wax first. Keep it pretty, you know?" "Honey, when you've got an eight-pound object coming out of your cooter, the last thing you're going to care about is how it looks.

French moms often ask me where I plan to deliver, but never how. They don't seem to care. In France, the way you give birth doesn't situate you within a value system or define the sort of parent you'll be. It is, for the most part, a way of getting your baby safely from your uterus into your arms.