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Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.

To put it mildly, I'm not crazy about the implication that pregnant women are incapable of deciding for themselves.

A part of me isn't like those women who love being pregnant. I love my baby, and I miss that feeling of being attached to him when he's kicking, but I was so ready to not be pregnant.

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

While I know some women who are stunningly sanguine when they're pregnant, I dissolve into a total mess. What normally appears sturdy turns fragile: the economy, the climate, humanity's baseline social contract.

In German science, we have a special problem. We lose talented women at the time they get pregnant. Some of it occurs because they are encouraged - by their husbands, bosses and the government - to take long maternity leaves.

If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan.