I was a pregnant vixen.

Supernatural is spiritual.

The desire to procreate, in some, is so strong that it creates a sort of tunnel vision in the afflicted. One can’t see beyond trying to make a baby, and they never stop to think...

What is it about the relationship of a mother that can heal or hurt us? Her womb is the first landscape we inhabit. It is here we learn to respond – to move, to listen,...

Juno MacGuff: Nah… I mean, I’m already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

Children are the greatest blessing from God.

When you create a soul, plant the seeds of love with your thoughts, words, and actions . The soul flourishes among the flow-ers of love.

Now, we see what we are shown. We have gotten used to being shown no matter what, within or beyond the limited range of human sight. This habituation to the monopoly of visualization-on-command strongly suggests...

Toxemia. A word that starts so harsh and ends so gently.

Looking at the children, she knew that any hope for a new life would have to grow within her. She glanced at Nate, wondering if he felt as she did, that children were the only...

When I asked my parents how the baby got inside Ma, they both laughed, and then Daddy told me they had made it with their bodies. I pictured them fully clothed, rubbing furiously against each...

I emphasize this because some of my colleagues, for whose academic attainments I have great respect, argue” ‘You assume too much; this is not proved; this is not strictly scientific. We disagree with your neurology...

They say that your second trimester is when you get most of your energy and it’s the ‘easiest’ part of the pregnancy.

The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.

Just like a human foetus, while in the uterus, retrieves and assimilates the components that allow its physical body to become whole and fit to emerge into the outer reality, the third dimension serves the...

Men need women. Women need men.

In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman.

If men were equally at risk from this condition — if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without...

Mom and dad probably told you I’ve been arrested. I’m innocent. I want you to know that.

A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she’ll never go very far.

I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.

Handy Hint! When your friend talks about having ‘a sweep’, do not then visualise Dick van Dyke in his cheeky chappy chimney sweeper outfit heading up into her uterus to do a rendition of ‘Step...

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

Oh my God!” Sam said again, his voice shaking. I’ve given birth to something inhuman, Phoebe thought. A lamprey with row after row of teeth.

$13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

The day of birth is a sacred day.

The greatest investment you can do in your life is in gaining time.

Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You’ve been torn asunder, invested...

The traditional approach to an unknown risk is avoidance.

Bloodchild” is my pregnant man story.

Nick and the CandlestickI am a miner. The light burns blue. Waxy stalactitesDrip and thicken, tearsThe earthen wombExudes from its dead boredom. Black bat airsWrap me, raggy shawls, Cold homicides.They weld to me like plums.Old...

I have a question. Is it okay to drink while you’re pregnant…if you’re planning on giving the baby up for adoption?

The day of birth is day of life.

Be brave,” I told her. Bobby and I stood before her, confused and homeless and lacking a plan, beset by an aching but chaotic love that refused to focus in the conventional way. Traffic roared...

I fell in love with a beautiful girl, got her pregnant, and then I got married. I wonder whatever happened to that beautiful girl I got pregnant.

The birth of a new born baby is a great joy.

The health of your future kids does not start with their birth—it starts with you, right now, well before you plan to impregnate your wife.

As I was wheeled into the operating room I pleaded withGod for one more day, one more week, one more month with her.

…the big increases in heart and blood volumes that occur by the 12th week of pregnancy should have the same effect as ‘blood doping’. This partially explains the outstanding performances of several female athletes from...

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.

The Vatican won’t prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I’m not ready for motherhood and it’s condemnation for me? These are the same people that won’t support national condom distribution that PREVENTS teenage pregnancy.

If pregnant girls were sinner, what were liars called?

Life begins at the day of birth. Birthday is a great day of honour.

At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to...

I had a dream last night I was awake through the pregnancy but I fell asleep at birth when I awoke I was Pinocchio and stuck inside a tree, does that mean I don’t have...

What a great gladness to welcome a new born baby into the world.

You are the closest I will ever come to magic.

You make me want to do things I’ve never done before. Never wanted to do before,’ she whispered.

Life is sexist. If you were to get pregnant, you’re the one whose life changes. Nothing of significance changes for the boy. You’re the one people whisper about. I’ve seen that show, Teen Moms. All...

Stacey: “I’m surprised you haven’t thrown me out.”Comfort: “At your current weight, I’d need some sort of catapult.