Giving birth is one of the most powerful moments in a woman’s life. These birth quotes and pregnancy quotes are motivational, funny, and will touch your heart too.
Pregnancy and Birth Quotes
Quotes are more than just words put together to form a sentence. Quotes can be affirmations, inspiration, or the motivation you need to keep going. While quotes can be wonderful all the time, they are especially helpful when you are having a hard time.
Although pregnancy and giving birth is the most amazing experience life can give you, they can also be extremely stressful, anxiety-producing, lonely, and downright terrifying.
These birth and pregnancy quotes can reframe your mindset positively if you are pregnant, going to give birth soon, or have already given birth.
These birth and pregnancy quotes are funny, powerful, and uplifting.
Be sure to check out my Quotes About Loving Children as well!
Powerful Quotes For Birth and Pregnancy
“There is 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 a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” -Laura Stavoe Harm
“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.” – Gloria Steinem
“I had a C-section and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.” -Angelina Jolie
“Women are strong, terribly strong. We don’t know how strong until we’re pushing out our babies.” -Louise Erdich
“Birth is an opportunity to transcend. To rise above what we are accustomed to, reach deeper inside ourselves than we are familiar with, and to see not only what we are truly made of, but the strength we can access in and through birth.” -Marcie Macari
“Giving birth should be your greatest achievement, not your greatest fear.” -Jane Weideman
“Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.” -Robin Lim
“There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.” -Pamela S. Nadav
“Birth is the epicenter of women’s power.” -Ani DiFranco
“Giving birth to your first child is the closest you can ever come to doing magic.” -Unknown
“Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.” -Maya Angelou
Sweet Pregnancy and Birth Quotes
“A baby is something you carry inside you for the nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die.” -Mary Mason
“A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.” -Unknown
“Regardless if your pregnancy was planned or happened by surprise, it is sure to say that your life will be forever changed.” -Unknown
“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.” -Rajneesh
“The birth of a child is a joy to the parent and the world.” -Lailah Gifty Akita
“Birth isn’t something we suffer, but something we actively do and exult in.” – Unknown
“There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.” – Unknown
“The purpose exceeds the pain.”
“Just as a woman’s heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth” – Unknown
“The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.” – Stephen Gaskin
“Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.” – Robin Lim
“Labor is also teamwork. It is a mother and baby learning together how to push and how to be born, how to yield and separate from the union of pregnancy. You are not in control nor are you out of control during labor. The best way to approach labor is with an attitude of learning rather than controlling.” – Gayle Peterson
“Birth is a rite of passage of women. Their journey should be honored, their rights should be fiercely protected, and their stories should be shared.” – Marcie Macari
“There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.” – Jared Padalecki
“Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.” – William MacNeile Dixon
“There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.” – Pamela S. Nadav
“Giving birth to your child doesn’t only give you a cute little baby to love for the rest of your life but it also strengthens your bond with your husband as a couple.” – Unknown
“Giving birth in ecstasy: This is our birthright and our body’s intent. Mother Nature, in her wisdom, prescribes birthing hormones that take us outside (ec) our usual state (stasis), so that we can be transformed on every level as we enter motherhood.” – Sarah Buckley
Funny Birth Quotes
“Raising kids is a walk in the park. Jurassic Park.” -Unknown
“When people congratulate me, I like to say ‘For What?’ and then watch them freak out!” -Unknown
“Nothing better than spending an entire morning staring into my baby daughter’s eyes, whispering, “I can’t do this.” -Ryan Reynolds
“Just as a woman’s heart knows how to pump, her lungs know how to inhale, and her hands to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth.” -Virginia DiOrio
“A birth plan is like having a baby monitor in a studio apartment. It’s useless.” -Unknown
“Peeing on a stick then preserving that stick is the first of many disgusting things I will do as a mother” – Unknown
“It’s a great thing about being pregnant – you don’t need excuses to pee or to eat.” ― Angelina Jolie
“Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.” ― Erma Bombeck
“Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.” ― Bill Cosby
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These birth and pregnancy quotes are a great way to be inspired, empowered, and joyful about this season you are in. Whilst it may feel stressful and lonely, it is also an amazing time in your life and these quotes are a great way to help you through.
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