Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it.

There are changes in the brain (during pregnancy and early motherhood) ? concrete, measurable changes, and later, the way we think and behave is changed.

Angelina has made pregnancy and motherhood fashionable. She's expanded the notion of what a family is, and that has a great deal of impact.

When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep it close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.

The health of your future kids does not start with their birth—it starts with you, right now, well before you plan to impregnate your wife.

Bless your mum, who carried you for nine months in her womb.