{"quotes":[{"text":"There is always a storm before a calm.There is always a darkness before daylight. There is always turbulence before quietness.There is always sacrifices before a great victory.There is always awaiting before a breakthrough.There is always prayer before an answer.There is always pain before joy.There is always failure before success.There is always pregnancy before the birth of new born baby.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["baby","failure","failure-success","inspirational","inspirational","inspirational","joyful","joyful-living-living","joyful-living","joyful-thankful","light","pain","positive-attitude","positive-mindset","positive-motivation","positive-thought","positive-thoughts","positiveness","pregnancy","pregnant-woman","success","success-in-life","successful-living","successful-mind","there-is-always-hope","there-is-always-joy","there-is-always-love","there-is-beauty-in-everything"],"id":5624,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"...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 uteruses that they must be whipped into shape with drugs in order to have babies.","author":"Marsden Wagner","tags":["birth","pregnancy"],"id":7051,"author_id":"Marsden+Wagner"},{"text":"The priceless gifts (life, love, joy, goodness, family, nature) are freely given by the Creator.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","artistic-expression","artists","childbirth","christian","daily-inspirational","daily-life","faith","family","family-love","gift-of-life","god","goodness","grace-of-god","grateful-soul","gratefulness","gratitude","humanity","inspirational-life","inspirational","inspiring-thoughts","joy","joyful-living","life","love","mercy","nature","philosophy-of-life","positive","power-of-thoughts","praises","pregnancy","religious-faith","thankful","thanksgiving","uplifting","wise-words","words-of-wisdom"],"id":8358,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Blessed is the womb that born you.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","childbirth","children","daily-inspirational","motivational","parent","pregnancy","womb"],"id":11011,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"...Take down your baby bump photos from Facebook, take down pictures of your kids too. It is your job to protect your children and not parade them around like little circus freaks or glorified mini-you’s.","author":"Brandon Kelly","tags":["children","feminism","kids","mothers","pregnancy","voyeurism","women"],"id":17998,"author_id":"Brandon+Kelly"},{"text":"As her body expanded so did her interior landscape. She imagined minarets, skyscrapers, entire cities being constructed inside her. Thighs thickened, belly became basketball-sized, buttocks deepened with dimples. Even her taste-buds shifted, and she held her tongue out for crushed ice, chalk, charcoal.","author":"Diriye Osman","tags":["power","pregnancy","self-realization"],"id":24440,"author_id":"Diriye+Osman"},{"text":"The wonder of life begins in the womb of a woman.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["childbirth","conception","inspiring","life","mothers","pregnancy","wise-words","woman","womb"],"id":25736,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"There is nothing to lose in this life. Naked I came from mother’s womb and naked will I go into the grave.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["child-birth","christian","daring","death","faith","hope","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life","life-lessons","pregnancy","wisdom"],"id":26984,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"When coming to making kids: Size doesn’t count, it’s sperm count that counts.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["child","children","conception","pregnancy","size","size-counts","sperm","sperm-count"],"id":27477,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The idea of becoming a mother at sixteen was the scariest thing that she’d ever thought of.","author":"Valenciya Lyons","tags":["fear","pregnancy"],"id":28333,"author_id":"Valenciya+Lyons"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":169,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}