Gorgeous pregnancy quotes can help inspire and get you excited for the little pitter patter of tiny feet.
There are over 100 heartfelt and inspiring quotes about being pregnant here for you to read.
These happy and fun pregnancy quotes may just help you put how you’re feeling into words.
You could use them as maternity photo captions for social media. There’s a whole section with perfect quotes for Instagram – and other social media platform – captions.
Or maybe you need a laugh? I’ve got funny pregnancy quotes too!
Some days waiting for baby can be tough, and it can help to read these relatable words from fellow parents.
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Loving Pregnancy Quotes
1. May you always know, little one, that you were wished for, longer for and will be forever loved.
2. A baby will make your heart fuller, your home happier, and your future brighter.
3. A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.
4. Pregnancy is getting company inside one’s skin. — Maggie Scarf
5. You are pregnant and you are powerful. You are bold and you are beautiful. Go forward in your boldness, in your beauty and in your contentedness. Trust your body to birth and know that the collective power of women worldwide will be with you.
6. If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished every moment and realised that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle. — Erma Bombeck
7. A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die. — Mary Mason
Funny Bump Quotes
8. Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be. — Carrie Fisher
9. It’s a great thing about being pregnant, you don’t need excuses to pee or eat. -Angelina Jolie
10. A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.
11. Pregnancy is the only time when you can do nothing at all and still be productive. — Evan Esar
12. People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it’s because you’re sweating to death. — Jessica Simpson
13. By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant. – Phyllis Diller
14. Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife. – Queen Victoria
15. Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes. – Joyce Armor
16. You do a lot of growing up when you’re pregnant. It’s suddenly like, ‘Yikes. Here it is, folks. Playtime is over.’ — Connie Fioretto
17. Feeling fat lasts nine months, but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever. – Nikki Bella
18. If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. – Nora Ephron
19. Pregnancy is the happiest excuse for feeling like crap.
20. It’s an established fact. Some women can’t stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it. – Rich Cohen
21. Pregnancy is nine months of cheat days.
22. If you want to know the feeling, just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head. —Carol Burnett
23. The first pregnancy is the most self-indulgent thing in the world because you get massages and prenatal yoga and hypnotherapy CDs. During this one I forget that I’m even pregnant. I’m hoisting my 2-year-old around. — Emily Blunt
24. I’m not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me the drugs. – Madonna
Expectant Mother Quotes
25. Pregnancy isn’t always easy. The extra emotions, fatigue, morning sickness, and difficulty to find a comfortable position to sleep. But, just knowing your baby is growing inside of you is one of the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.
26. That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don’t know the language. – Emily Perkins
27. To be pregnant is to be vitally alive, thoroughly woman, and distressingly inhabited. Soul and spirit are stretched – along with body – making pregnancy a time of transition, growth, and profound beginnings. – Anne Christian Buchanan
28. In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves. – Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
29. A mother’s joy begins when new life is stirring inside… when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the very first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.
30. Pregnancy is a process that invites you to surrender to the unseen force behind all life. – Judy Ford
31. The longer you wait for something, the more you appreciate it when you get it. Anything worth having is worth waiting for.
Best Maternity Quotes
32. Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. – Martin Luther.
33. Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
34. If you want to know the value of a month, ask a pregnant woman, if a month matters in her pregnancy. – Sunday Adelaja
35. There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written. — Toba Beta
36. Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary—it’s an act of infinite optimism. – Gilda Radner
37. Just knowing you are going to meet your little baby, the love of your life, make all the waiting, all the worry, all the labor pain, and all the unknown worth it.
38. Pregnancy and childbirth make a woman an instant mother. But, all the days that follow thereafter with the love, caring, nurturing, cuddling, and worry is what makes her mom.
39. Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have. – Robin Lim
40. Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom. – Harriette Hartigan
41. Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body – meaning that it wasn’t put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. – Amy Adams
42. Birth takes a woman’s deepest fears about herself and shows her that she is stronger than them.
43. There will never be a day like the day your baby was born.
44. Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear. —Jane Weideman
Inspirational Quotes about Pregnancy
45. It is easy when you’re pregnant to spend hours dreaming about the little baby growing inside of you and wondering who in the world they will turn out to be.
46. Regardless if your pregnancy was planned or happened by surprise, it is sure to say that your life will be forever changed.
47. A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die. — Mary Mason
48. Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain—your life will never be the same. — Catherine Jones
49. Let us make pregnancy an occasion when we appreciate our female bodies. – Merete Leonhardt-Lupa
50. Pregnancy and childbirth make a woman an instant mother. But, all the days that follow thereafter with the love, caring, nurturing, cuddling, and worry is what makes her mom.
51. Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. – Lin Yutang
52. The wonder of life begins in the womb of a woman. – Lailah Gifty Akita
53. Some of the days you feel so inadequate that you might not be strong enough to be a mother, there’s a lively kick inside you and it reminds you there’s someone who already believes in you.
54. No pregnancy is the same. Each is its own special journey.
55. We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong. — Laura Stavoe Harm
56. A baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in. — Elizabeth Bard
Cute Pregnancy Quotes
57. When a baby is born a life of endless possibilities lays ahead.
58. A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.
59. You never understand life until it grows inside of you. — Sandra Chami Kassis
60. Making the decision to have a child – it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
61. Babies are bits of star-dust blown from the hand of God. – Larry Barretto.
62. Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy. – Jayne Mansfield
63. It is the most powerful creation for you to be able to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift, nothing more empowering. – Beyonce
64. 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. – Osho
65. Children reinvent your world for you.” — Susan Sarandon
66. My body has given me the greatest gift of my life. — Hilary Duff
67. The funny thing about pregnancy is that you are not just creating a child, you are also creating a mother.
68. The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. — Olivia Wilde
69. We never know the love of a parent until we become parents ourselves. — Henry Ward Beecher
70. Sometimes you don’t realise what is missing in your life until it arrives. — Araceli M. Ream
Pregnancy captions for social media
You can use these funny and sweet pregnancy captions in your social media posts.
They’re perfect for using with bump photos or social media posts with your baby scans!
71. I’m in love with a human I haven’t met yet.
72. You are the closest I will ever come to magic.
73. A grand adventure is about to begin.
74. It’s the small moments that make life big.
75. Life’s biggest miracle is having a new life grow inside you.
76. You are already my favourite adventure.
77. Made with true love.
78. Being pregnant means every day is another day closer to meeting the other love of my life.
79. Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. — A.A. Milne
80. So excited to meet this little one who is half me and half the man I love.
81. Even miracles take a little time.
82. I have dreamed of you, before I even knew who you were.
83. I’ve known you for every second of your life and I will love you for every second of mine.
84. I hold you in my heart and soon I will hold you in my arms.
85. No one else will ever know how much I love you. After all, you are the only one who knows what my heart sounds like from the inside.
86. Just when you think you know what love is, a little miracle comes along
87. A baby fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.
88. Pregnancy is the only time in your life when you fall in love with someone you have never met.
89. You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars.
90. True happiness is on the way.
91. First came love, then came you.
92. You are proof that love before first sight does exist. — Araceli M. Ream
93. Not every day of pregnancy is easy, but every day brings me closer to you.
94. 9 months preparing to fall in love for a lifetime.
95. Happiness is carrying a whole world inside of you.
96. Before we had you we had each other and now you are here and we have everything.
97. I love when I run about my daily tasks and I will your sweet kicks telling me I’m not alone.
98. I’m not saying its going to be easy, but I know its going to be worth it!
99. A baby makes love stronger, the night longer, savings smaller and a home much happier.
100. The day a baby is born marks the beginning of a beautiful new chapter.
Final thoughts on pregnancy quotes
Whatever you want to use these moving pregnancy quotes for, I hope you enjoyed reading them and they helped put into words some of your feelings about being pregnant!
If you’re gearing up for giving birth then you may like this article about all the things you need to do before your due date.
