Prenatal Development Quotes

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

I gave up before birth.

Every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

One of the thoughtful questions we could be asking is, "Have you ever gone to Google and typed in 20 week baby or 20 week fetus? Try it and click on the images." Suddenly your friend will see what a 20-week-old baby looks like in the womb. That image is clearly a unique life.

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier.

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

Being pregnant is a wonderful thing. I have never understood why people make such a big deal of it though.

The vast majority of abortions are performed between the seventh and tenth week when the baby is already sucking his thumb, recoiling from pricking, responding to sound. All his organs are present, the brain is functioning, the heart is pumping, the liver is making blood cells, the kidneys are cleaning fluids, and there is a fingerprint. His genetic code is uniquely and unquestionably human. And, if we are willing, he can be seen by ultrasound.

My mother sang with me in her stomach; I sang with Bobbi Kris in my stomach. I believe the child starts to develop within, and whatever you read, whatever you think, whatever you do affects the child.

I thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual.

This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in what stage it dwells there, and the manner of its quickening and feeding, and its growth, and what interval there is between one stage of growth and another, and what thing drives it forth from the body of the mother, and for what reason it sometimes emerges from the belly of its mother before the due time.

But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance over the eye...(but) what do we do in our society, in our civilisation, to continue this process?

I like to think of myself less like 'an adult' and more like a 'former fetus.'

Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.

My mom likes to say I've been covering news since the day I was born - longer if you count my time in utero.

A newborn already has nine months of experience when she is born.

When I was a fetus, I used to sneak out at night when my mother was sleeping. I figured I should start stealing stuff while I still had no fingerprints.

The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age. I had my kids while I was in utero.

As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for his birth, So many a million of ages have gone to the making of man

I think the best thing about being pregnant would definitely have to be seeing just my belly grow and seeing, like, wow, there is, you know, something inside of me.

I did sit on Jonathan's head in the womb for nine months.

I actually thought it was quite nice to feel that I could legitimately take up extra space and not have to apologise for doing so. It goes with the territory and I think you have to embrace your pregnancy otherwise you risk having a terrible time.