75 New Mom Quotes to Warm Your Heart

Congratulations- you’re a new mom! Surely you’ve heard that a few (hundred) times lately. But even though having or adopting a child is widely regarded as one of the most important and pivotal events in many people’s lives, there are plenty of challenges and new hurdles that come with the title. Read on for 75 new mom quotes that are funny, relatable, and real- exactly what new moms need to hear.

75 New Mom Quotes to Warm Your Heart

“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

“Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.” ”“ Robin Lim

“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.” ”“ Thomas S. Monson

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” ”“ Barbara Kingsolver

“Kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.” ”“ Barbara Kingsolver

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not.” ”“ James Joyce

“If your baby is beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time- you’re the grandma”. -Theresa Bloomingdale

“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

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” ”“ Maya Angelou

“Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to make it dry.” -Alvin Price

“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 that moment.” -Anita Diamant

“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” ”“ Tina Fey

“A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die.” ”“ Mary Mason

“A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.” -Anonymous

“Birth is the epicenter of women’s power.” ”“Ani DiFranco

“Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it.” -Anonymous

“For this child, I prayed and the Lord has granted the desires of my heart.” ”“ 1 Samuel 1:27

“I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” ”“ Oprah

“There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.” ”“ Pamela S. Nadav

“Motherhood: The only place you can experience heaven and hell at the same time.” -Anonymous

Babies are always more trouble than you thought- and more wonderful.” -Charles Osgood

“You are the closest I will ever come to magic.” ”“ Suzanne Finnamore

“Because I feel that, in the Heavens above / The angels, whispering to one another, / Can find, among their burning terms of love / None so devotional as that of ”˜Mother’” ”“ Edgar Allen Poe

“Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.” ”“ Penelope Leach

“A perfect example of minority rule is a baby in the house.” -Milwaukee Journal

A new mom quote for when the time feels fleeting…

“Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart, it don’t mean a thing.” ”“ Toni Morrison

“That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don’t know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it’s just the horizon -and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it’s suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you’ve had the right shots.” ”“ Emily Perkins

“Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.” ”“ Tina Brown

“Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.” ”“ William Macneile Dixon

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right-for you’ll be criticized anyways.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

“Birth takes a woman’s deepest fears about herself and show her that she is stronger than them.” ”“ Unknown

“The best thing about being a new mom is the lower tolerance from not drinking for nine months.” ”“ Anonymous

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” ”“ Franklin P. Jones

“[My mother] had handed down respect for the possibilities-and the will to grasp them.” ”“ Alice Walker

“If you can’t take a joke, don’t have children.” -Unknown

“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.” -Leo J. Burke

“When a baby comes, you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.” ”“ Carlos Santana

“Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.” ”“ Harriette Hartigan

New mom quotes that will have you laughing out loud…

39. “Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.” ”“ Joyce Armor

“Rigid plans work best if you’re building a skyscraper; with something as mysteriously human as giving birth, it’s best, both literally and figuratively, to keep your knees bent.” ”“ Mark Sloan

“Birth is a mystery. Words are not enough.” ”“ Marie O’Connor

42. “Babies are bits of stardust blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star.” ”“ Larry Barretto

“A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.” ”“ Anonymous

The quote for new moms who aren’t loving this whole giant belly thing…

44. “It’s an established fact. Some women can’t stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons, probably understood by Darwin, love it.” ”“ Rich Cohen

“A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.” -Anonymous

“Having kids””the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings””is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” ”“ Maria Shriver

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.” -Harold Hulbert

48. “When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they’re seeing angels.” ”“ Eileen Elias Freeman

“What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.” -Benjamin Spock

“[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
“No one knows how your mom suffered until you become a mom.” -Kim White

52. “Babies are like little suns that, in a magical way, bring warmth, happiness, and light into our lives.” ”“ Kartini Diapari-Oengider

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” ”“ Robert Browning

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” ”“ Mitch Albom

55. “Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.” ”“ Kate Douglas Wiggin

“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

Giving birth is a mystery just like life-it’s got a hand on your heart forever. -Jennifer Stace

58. “With every newborn baby, a little sun rises.” ”“ Irmgard Erath

“Sleep is like the unicorn””it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any.” ”“ Unknown

“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

“Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.” ”“ Robin Lim

62. “A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.” ”“ Carl Sandburg

“In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.” ”“ Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” ”“ Jill Churchill

65. “Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.” ”“ Jayne Mansfield

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” ”“ Sophia Loren

67. “A daughter is one of the most beautiful gifts this world has to give.” ”“ Laurel Atherton

A quote to remind new moms that it is worth the struggle…

68. “Babies are always more trouble than you thought ”“ and more wonderful.” ”“ Charles Osgood

“Babies are bits of star-dust blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star.” ”“ Larry Barretto

70. “A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.” ”“ Anonymous

71. “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

“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” ”“ Laura Stavoe Harm

73. “A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.” ”“ Unknown

“Giving birth is no doubt the most rewarding thing a women can give in her life& be proud at what she has created as they grow to a loving kind adult.” -Janet Marunde

A new mom quote for when you need a reminder this doesn’t last forever…

75. “Feeling fat lasts nine months, but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.” ”“ Nikki Dalton

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Amber is the CEO and mama in charge at Rookie Moms! She is raising six amazing humans and has been through a lot as a mom including high-risk pregnancy (preeclampsia, HELLP syndrome), adoption, navigating special needs, working from home, and more. Now she's on a mission to pass along the knowledge she's learned... from one mama to another!

75 New Mom Quotes to Warm Your Heart