High Risk Pregnancy Quotes

“Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.”
― Christina Greer, Two-Week Wait: Motherhood Lost and Found

“I had often fantasized about a forced hiatus where I could catch up on the classics and while away the hours. But the dark secret about this fantasy is that you only end up on a forced hiatus if something bad is happening to you.”
― Aileen Weintraub, Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“This stratification of Judaism is confusing, so I'll explain it as it relates to bacon. In Judaism the major players are: Reformed eat bacon and love it; Conservative- eat bacon only in diners; Orthodox-never touch bacon but secretly wonder what it tastes like; Ultra Orthodox--no way, feh, it's treif, and Chassidic-what is this bacon of which you speak?”
― Aileen Weintraub, Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“I sympathized with elderly people who lived inside flesh and bones that couldn’t keep time with their soaring spirits. I knew now what it meant to be in pain every single moment of the day and how it could change someone’s entire personality.”
― Aileen Weintraub, Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“I was disappointed in my doctor for not mentioning how psychologically strenuous bed rest would be. It’s a fact of life that people miscarry. But like bed rest itself, it doesn’t seem to hold a lot of weight out there in the world.”
― Aileen Weintraub, Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“The phone rang, and I scrambled to answer it, hoping that whoever was on the other end would be my salvation. It was a telemarketer. Here, I thought, was an excellent opportunity to make new friends.”
― Aileen Weintraub, Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“I stopped listening to everyone else’s horror stories and unhelpful advice. Bad things happen every single day, but if I was going to obsess over other people’s misfortunes, I’d never have the strength to confront my own.”
― Aileen Weintraub

“What did it mean, he thought I never needed to be on bed rest? Why was he so flippant about it? I wasn’t a statistic. You don’t stop another human being’s life for months and then say you didn’t have to go through that, but no biggie, right?”
― Aileen Weintraub, Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“When we had first wed, our farmhouse with its false foundation had been in danger of collapsing. But we'd secured it with a solid beam. Didn't our marriage deserve the same? Maybe seduction could be accomplished in ten seconds, but making a marriage work takes a lot longer. Maybe even a lifetime.”
― Aileen Weintraub, Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir