50 Sweet New-Mom Quotes That Capture the Awe of Being a First-Time Parent

You can read books, study up articles, or ask your friends and family, but no one can really tell you what it’s like to become a new mother. Sure, you can prepare for the nitty-gritty of giving birth and try to gear up for the transition of becoming a mother. But even though forewarned is forearmed, there are simply no words for the feeling you have when you hold your newborn baby for the first time.

That doesn’t mean that people haven’t tried. No two people take exactly the same path to motherhood, so attempting to explain it is like trying to capture the whole of human experience in just a few sentences. You can’t just do it in one quip. However, if you take in a bunch of new-mom quotes together, you might be able to glimpse a hint of what’s in store. From your changing role in your kids’ lives to the joys of seeing a toothless baby smile to the challenges of sleepless nights and unreasonable baby brains, these quotes capture the highs and lows of bringing a new baby home.

Relax, Enjoy and Breathe In That New Baby Smell—Here Are 50 New Mom Quotes

1. “A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past is forgotten and the future worth living for.” — Unknown
2. Whenever you feel like you are failing, look in the eyes of your child, and know your value.” — Unknown
3. “Sometimes, when you pick up your child, you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood – finding a piece of yourself separate and apart, that all the same, you could not live without.” – Jodi Picoult
4. “The choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” – Oprah
5. “Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name the moment.” – Anita Diamant
6. “You’re always going to wonder if you’re doing things wrong, but that’s what it means to be a mom, to care so much about someone else that you just want to be perfect as possible.” – Naya Rivera
7. “Motherhood – It is a choice you make every day to put someone else’s happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you’re not sure what the right thing is, and to forgive yourself, over and over again for doing everything wrong.” — Unknown
8. “Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.” – Carrie Fisher
9. “The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children” – Jessica Lange
10. “Being a mother is the most rewarding blessing in the world, just knowing you can love someone so much, and get that same love in return is wonderful.” — Unknown
11. “It’s ok to be grumpy sometimes, to have bad days to struggle, to make mistakes, to say the wrong thing, feel overwhelmed and under-appreciated, to be out-of-sorts and sort-of-over-it all. It’s ok for us big humans, and it’s ok for our little humans, too. After all, we’re all humans, right? How else will our little humans learn that it’s okay to be human? Remember, we’re imperfect humans growing imperfect humans in an imperfect world, and that’s perfectly okay.” – L.R. Knost
12. “Having kids – the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” – Maria Shriver
13. “No one else will ever know the strength of my love for you. After all, you’re the only one who knows what my heart sounds like from the inside.” — Unknown
14. “A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.” — Unknown
15. “Before you were conceived, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were here, I would die for you. This is the miracle of Mother’s love.” – Maureen Hawkins
16. “A baby arrives, and just like that everything changes. The world gets bigger, heart grows fuller, and life means more.” — Unknown
17. “Being a mother is the most rewarding blessing in the world, just knowing you can love someone so much, and get that same love in return is wonderful.” — Unknown
18. “You will never have this day with your children again tomorrow. They will be a little older than they were today. This day is a gift just breathe and notice, smell and touch them, study their faces and little feet, pay attention, relish the charm of the present. Enjoy today.” — Unknown
19. “Be patient with yourself. You and your baby are both learning new things each day.” — Unknown
20. “There are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.” – Anne Lamott
21. “Motherhood is messy and challenging, and crazy, and sleepless, and giving, and unbelievably beautiful.” — Unknown
22. “You’re doing a great job, mom, even when you don’t feel like it.” — Unknown
23. “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill
24. “What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.” – Benjamin Spock
25. “Birth takes a woman’s deepest fears about herself and show her that she is stronger than them.” – Unknown
26. “A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman’s crowning creative experience of a lifetime.” — Unknown
27. “Sleep is like the unicorn—it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any.” – Unknown
28. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” — Unknown
29. “When life gets hard and you feel alone, remember, you mean the world to somebody and that somebody calls you mom.” — Unknown
30. “There are hard days in motherhood. But looking at your sleeping baby reminds you why it’s all worth it.” — Unknown
31. “To be motherly means to be both strong and nurturing.” — Unknown
32. “Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders where ever your children go.” — Unknown
33. “A child is the most beautiful gift this world has to give.” — Unknown
34. “To be pregnant is to be vitally alive, thoroughly woman, and distressingly inhabited. Soul and spirit are stretched – along with body – making pregnancy a time of transition, growth, and profound beginnings.” – Anne Christian Buchanan
35. “Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary—it’s an act of infinite optimism.” – Gilda Radner
36. “The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
37. “A mother continues to labor long after the baby is born.” – Lisa Jo Baker
38. “Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same.” – Catherine Jones
39. “Hey, mama. I see you stressed out, tired, touched out, stretched thin, irritable, snappy, imperfect, short-tempered, grumpy, crying, it’s okay. Everybody has been there; it sucks, but you are good. You are a good mom, say it, believe it.” — Unknown
40. “We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” – Laura Stavoe Harm
41. “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” – Elizabeth Stone
42. “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” – Barbara Kingsolver
43. “Birth is the epicenter of women’s power.” – Ani DiFranco
44. “I like to think of motherhood as a great big adventure. You set off on a journey, you don’t really know how to navigate things, and you don’t exactly know where you’re going or how you’re going to get there.” – Cynthia Rowley
45. “Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” – Tina Fey
46. “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
47. “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” – Princess Diana
48. “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Mermillod
49. “My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.” – Drew Barrymore
50. “No matter your age, you will always need your mom.” – Unknown
51. “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” – Unknown
52. “There is nothing as powerful as mother’s love, and nothing as healing as a child’s soul.” – Unknown
53. “I’ve never had more appreciation for anyone in my entire life until I became a mom.” – Chrissy Teigen
54. “Moms are the people who know us the best and love us the most.” – Unknown
55. “My daughter introduced me to myself.” – Beyoncé Knowles

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