Khloe Kardashian’s Road to Motherhood: Relive Her Best Quotes on Starting a Family

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Khloe Kardashian’s Road to Motherhood: Relive Her Best Quotes on Starting a Family

The Kardashian klan is growing! Khloe Kardashian gave birth to a baby girl on April 12. Us Weekly exclusively revealed in September that Kardashian was pregnant and expecting her first child with Tristan Thompson. She also confirmed the news herself on December 20, in a sweet Instagram post. "My greatest dream realized! We are having a baby!" the reality star gushed. Kardashian has been open in the past about her desire to be a mom and start a family when she felt the time was right. So on the heels of her exciting announcement, relive the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star’s most heartfelt quotes about being a mom and starting a family of her own! PHOTOS: Khloe Kardashian's Hottest Instagram Posts!

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Khloe Kardashian’s Road to Motherhood: Relive Her Best Quotes on Starting a Family

The Kardashian klan is growing! Khloe Kardashian gave birth to a baby girl on April 12. Us Weekly exclusively revealed in September that Kardashian was pregnant and expecting her first child with Tristan Thompson. She also confirmed the news herself on December 20, in a sweet Instagram post. "My greatest dream realized! We are having a baby!" the reality star gushed. Kardashian has been open in the past about her desire to be a mom and start a family when she felt the time was right. So on the heels of her exciting announcement, relive the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star’s most heartfelt quotes about being a mom and starting a family of her own! PHOTOS: Khloe Kardashian's Hottest Instagram Posts!

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She’s Here!

Kardashian officially became a mom on April 12. The reality star gave birth to her first child, a girl, at a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio with Thompson by her side. The Strong Looks Better Naked author revealed on her app on April 9 that she was “a little nervous” to go into labor, but she was "trying to not overthink something that happens all the time.”

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Hoping, Wishing, Waiting.

“Being pregnant has always been a dream of mine,” the Strong Looks Better Naked author gushed on social media in March 2018. “Even though 9 months feels like a lifetime while I’m awaiting the arrival of my baby girl, it’s really a blink in the grand scheme of life.”

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It's Getting Real

Kardashian couldn't contain her excitement just days before welcoming her precious little girl. She took to Instagram to share a sweet pic of the parents-to be. “We are ready whenever you are little mama,” she captioned the photo.

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Ready for This Phase of Life

“[My pregnancy] puts so many things into perspective. I mean, people say that once you have a baby your life really begins and you’re going to realize everything you were doing was nonsense,” the Good American designer explained to Ross King on the U.K. morning show Lorraine in February 2018. “But honestly, I’m so happy that this is happening in my life right now. I feel so ready … I feel the timing really is perfect and I do feel like, I mean, it’s going to be so exciting, everything that’s about to happen.”

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Kids Were Always in The Cards

The KUWTK star opened about knowing that "Tristan was the one very quickly" in a February 2018 blog post — and of course that included having the family talk early on. "Tristan was so forthcoming with his life, as I was with mine," she wrote at the time. "It was really reassuring to feel that someone had the same belief systems as I did. We spoke about religion, children and our families.”

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Her "Greatest Dream"

Kardashian gushed over her pregnancy while confirming her happy news. "I had been waiting and wondering but God had a plan all along," she wrote in December. "He knew what He was doing. I simply had to trust in Him and be patient. I still at times can’t believe that our love created life!” She also thanked her beau for "making me a MOMMY!!!!" She added: "You have made this experience even more magical than I could have envisioned! I will never forget how wonderful you’ve been to me during this time. Thank you for making me so happy my love!”

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Things Only a Mom Would Worry About

“Oh my gosh I’m nervous about breastfeeding,” she wrote on Instagram in March 2018. “I hear crazy things but ill fight through it and love it."

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All in Due Time

“I definitely want a family, but I don’t feel any pressure,” the E! star told Mail on Sunday’s You magazine in August 2017 about starting a family with Thompson, who is already dad to Prince, 9 months, with ex-girlfriend Jordan Craig. “Tristan is a great dad and he definitely wants more children, but we both feel that it will happen when the time is right. We’re still in a new relationship and I love us having time together. Once you have kids, you can’t get back your non-kid years.”

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She’s Not a Regular Mom…

She’ll be a cool mom. “I’m a really fun aunt, so I hope I’m going to be a fun mom!” Kardashian told Refinery 29 in April 2015. “I like to have fun and be silly and not take myself too seriously with the kids, so I hope that will translate when I actually have my own.”

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One and Counting!

Baby No. 1 may be on the way, but the Strong Looks Better Naked author and Thompson don’t plan on stopping there! “He wants to have like five or six kids with me,” Kardashian said on the Keeping Up With the Kardashians season 13 finale in June 2017. “Knowing I’m not on birth control, it’s scary. It’s like a really big step. I am really excited about my future. Me and Tristan, we’re doing so well.”

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Not Without Hesitation

The former DASH owner recently expressed her fears about bring children into the world. “You worry about your children for the rest of your life. The concern I have is raising little human beings in a world that’s filled with such hate and terror,” she revealed to Mail on Sunday’s You magazine in August 2017. “That seems very scary.”

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Mommy KoKo!

Aunty KoKo is ready for her mommy duties! “My house is the fun house for my nieces and nephews,” Kardashian told Mail on Sunday’s You magazine in August 2017. “We do arts and crafts and bake a lot. We like to play outside and in the pool, just being goofy. I have water balloons and we have water fights. I’m like a big kid myself. At night when I babysit them we have dance parties. I love to give their moms the evening off.”

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The Perfect Partnership

The parents-to-be are ready for what’s to come. “I would love to have a family. We’ve talked about it. He [already] is a father and I know for a fact that he would be an impeccable father,” the reality star told ES Magazine in April 2017. “I definitely want to be a mom, but I don’t put the pressure on it. It’s not like, ‘The clock is ticking.’ I feel in my soul it will happen.”

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Meant to Be a Mom

Having grown up with five siblings, Kardashian is excited to have a family of her own. “I love kids,” she told Cosmopolitan in February 2014. “I hope and pray I have kids when the time is right.”

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He Has Her Back

While talking to sister Kim on the Keeping Up With the Kardashians season 13 finale in June 2017, Khloe gushed about her man. “He’s like, ‘I wanna have kids with you and then if you get pregnant you could make maternity jeans for Good American.’ He’s so f--king cute and supportive and sweet,” Khloe told Kim. “I’ve just never had … he’s just such a nice, nice person.”