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.

You never understand life until it grows inside of you.

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells… to locate a female egg, despite the fact that...

A child of God, special possession.

With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here’s a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly;...

She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.

Agatha told me she was late, and I thought, I haven’t slept with her in years—she really must be late. I’m going to be a father!

Isn’t it wonderful to give birth to your own kind?

When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.

Will I be some kid’s dad one day? Are any future people lurking deep inside mine?…Which girl’s carrying the other half of my kid, deep in those intricate loops? What’s she doing right now? What’s...

Your husband may not be a wealth of pregnancy information, but he is a wealth of ‘you’ information. He probably knows you better than anyone else in this world (which means he understands your current...

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...

Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.

I tried to knock my wife up, but she’d only let me ring the doorbell. And she made me dress up like the pizza delivery boy while I rang.

Conception is a blessed event. Fertilization is divine intervention.The development of embryo is a miraculous encounter. The birth of a child is supernatural spiritual event.

Part of me just wants to force-feed these women some spoonfuls of fatty p té. But another part of me is dying to know their secrets. Having kids who sleep well, wait and don’t whine...

Respect your needs and limitations as you work through your grief and begin to heal

60% of children are born to unwed mothers. I should start pulling out.

Children see beauty in everything.

Holy shit.

What you don’t think about when you’re planning for children is when you’re going to teach them how not to be killed

Suzanne had totally forgotten about their court date since she’d been a little busy having tons of condom-free sex with Ryder, planning Nikki’s wedding, and forming a placenta.

Women take a much larger risk, evolutionarily speaking, when they have sex. Sex is also a much larger investment for women than it is for men. For this reason, women have emotional circuitry designed to...

To celebrate the birth of new life, is to appreciate the miraculous work of the Creator.

Every birth comes out of labour pains. The most difficult task is not about being pregnant with visions; it’s about delivering an impact that inspires lives.

Children are adorable.

…the total number of pregnancies in which powerful and dangerous drugs are used is 60 percent, or nearly two-thirds of all births. It is rediculous to think that two-thirds of American women have such lousy...

No, I’m the human here. I’m the life at stake. I’m the one with fingernails, who feels pain.Me.

That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don’t know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it’s just the horizon...