Floor Jansen Quotes

Pregnancy is uncomfortable and draining, and the end isn't in sight until it becomes unbearable.

God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.

The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.

Being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy.

I've had rough first trimesters. But once you get into the second, it's fine after that.

In my case, when it arrived at 49, perimenopause was terrifying and like nothing I had ever before physically experienced.

There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!

You know what you are getting into, but being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy.

Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual.

The reason I wrote 'I'm Too Young for This!' is to spare young women the suffering of hormonal loss - and it is true suffering. You can't sleep, you gain weight for no reason, you bloat for no reason, your moods are altered, and your sex drive is diminished.

I'm always exhausted after a show, even if it's just half an hour.

My first trimester I was so exhausted. I could sleep 10 hours, then wake up, look in the mirror and still have eyes like a hound dog! I felt like the life was sucked out of me, no matter how much sleep I got. It was obvious that my body was really busy doing something else and 'beauty sleep' didn't exist anymore!

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.

I, as a man, don't even pretend to know what a woman goes through during pregnancy.

Being pregnant is a conundrum. You have this freedom, because it's a wonderful time that a human being is growing inside of you, and it is truly magical. On the other hand, your body changes.

The earliest period at which I have been able to detect the existence of the spleen in the human embryo is at the second month.

When you're pregnant, you're all gassy, and you're hungry, but then you're nauseous.

When I was going through menopause, I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep for two years and ended up blowing out my thyroid, and I became nonfunctional. It's difficult to remain fully present if I'm not getting enough sleep, so I work at getting enough.

Alexia had found pregnancy relatively manageable, up to a point. That point having been some three weeks ago, at which juncture her natural reserves of control gave way to sentimentality. Only yesterday she had ended breakfast sobbing over the fried eggs because they looked at her funny. The pack had spent a good half hour trying to find a way to pacify her. Her husband was so worried he looked to start crying himself.

Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

As an O.B. doctor of thirty years, and having delivered 4,000 babies, I can assure you life begins at conception.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.

My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!

Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.