90 Encouraging And Beautiful Quotes For A New Mom

Motherhood is one of the most defining moments in a woman’s life and the feelings associated with it are usually difficult to express in words. Becoming a mom for the first time can be one of the most exciting and terrifying experiences at the same time. With a new role, new responsibilities, and a newborn, everything may no longer be the same for a new mother. However, some words of encouragement and inspiration can help a newbie mommy sail beautifully through her journey! Browse the following post for some heartwarming positive quotes for new mums for the newbie mommy!

Quotes And Sayings For A New Mother That Will Motivate Her For The New Journey of Life

Being a mother for the very first time can be an amazing experience. However, the added responsibilities and of a newborn baby can overwhelm the newbie mother. Some inspirational, encouraging, and funny becoming a mom quotes, words, and sayings and uplift the spirits of a new mother.

First Time Mom Quotes and Sayings

Here are some being a first-time mother quotes that can give motivate a new mother:

1. “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.”
2. “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”
3. “A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years and in your heart till the day you die.”
4. “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.”
5. “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.”
6. “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.”
7. “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.”
8. “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.”
9. “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.”
10. “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
11. “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.”
12. “A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”
13.  “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.”
14. “There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.”
15. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
16. “There is no way out of the experience except through it because it is not really your experience at all but the baby’s. Your body is the child’s instrument of birth.”
17. “Birth is a mystery. Words are not enough.”
18. “The day your baby arrives is the day your life changes for good.”
19. “It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.”
20. “Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.”
21. “We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.”
22. “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.”
23. “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.”
24. “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
25. “Birth is the epicentre of women’s power.”
26. “Birth takes a woman’s deepest fears about herself and shows her that she is stronger than them”.
27. “Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.”
28. “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.”
29. “The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the centre of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.”
30. “A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.”

Quotes That Will Inspire a New Mom

Every mother loves to hear some inspirational words that help in boosting her mood and let her know her that she is doing a great job of taking care of her little bundle of joy:

1. “A mothers’ joy begins when new life is stirring inside…when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.”
2. “For a mother is the only person on earth who can divide her love among ten children and each child still have all her love.”
3. “Feeling fat lasts nine months, but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.”
4. “When life gets hard and you feel alone, remember, you mean the world to somebody and that somebody calls you mom.”
5. “There are hard days in motherhood. But looking at your sleeping baby reminds you why it’s all worth it.”
6. “Being a mother is the highest paid job in the world. Since the payment is in pure love.”
7. “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.”
8. “Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders where ever your children go.”
9. “A child is the most beautiful gift this world has to give.”
10. “Nothing in life will ever make you as happy, as sad, as exhausted, or as incredibly proud as “You blink and they are toddlers. Then teens. And then they are parents, resembling you once were. So soak it all up. Hold them in your arms as they fall asleep. Read that book they requested for the tenth time. Snuggle in tight when all they want to do is hug you – feel that small body against your own. Embrace the exhaustion. The hard days. The overwhelming. Because although at times you might go a little crazy, motherhood is an incredible journey filled with immeasurable love and happiness.”
11. “Whenever you feel like you are failing, look in the eyes of your child, and know your value.”
12. “Be patient with yourself. You and your baby are both learning new things each day.”
13. “Successful mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.”
14. “Your influence as a mother is powerful. Don’t waste it. Little eyes are watching you.”
15. “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.”
16. “A miracle is the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It’s unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle, indeed. Such an incredible blessing.”
17. “Having kids—the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings—is the biggest job anyone can embark on.”
18. “Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.”
19. “I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.”
20. “Your dream came true, your very own little one, your brand new life as a mother is about to begin. The moment you breathe in that new baby smell, you’ll feel a love so fiercely, it’s like nothing you’ve ever felt before.”
21. “Babies are always more trouble than you thought- and more wonderful.”
22. “There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.”
23. “Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.”
24. “The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn’t know I would love motherhood as much as I do.”
25. “Motherhood is amazing and so incredibly brave.”
26. “If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished every moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.”
27. “Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.”
28. “In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.”
29. “You’re doing a great job, mom, even when you don’t feel like it.”
30. “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.”

Funny New Mom Quotes

To have a baby in one of the biggest and brightest joys and it certainly has a funny twist to it! Here are some funny quotes for newbie mommies that are very relatable and hilarious too:

1. “Sleep at this point is just a concept, something I’m looking forward to investigating in the future.”
2. “Ah, babies. They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.”
3. “I didn’t fully wrap my head around the fact that there would be a person at the end of it. I read endlessly about pregnancy and what to eat and what not to eat. And then I sort of prepared not at all for the actual baby.”
4. “Before, I only allowed high-ends shoes in my closet. Now all I own are Crocs and Target flats.”
5. “Spit-up is my new favorite accessory; no outfit is complete without it”.
6. “Whoever wrote the song ‘I’m easy like Sunday morning’ did not have kids.”
7. “I hate when I’m waiting for mom to cook dinner and then I remember that I am the mom and I have to cook dinner.”
8. “Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.”
9. “Becoming a mom to me means you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.”
10. “When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
11. “Every day when you’re raising kids, you feel like you could cry or crack up and just scream ‘This is ridiculous!’ because there’s so much nonsense, whether it’s what they’re saying to you or the fact that there’s avocado or poop on every surface.”
12. “Great parenting happens when you start controlling yourself and stop controlling your child.”
13. “The best thing about being a new mom is the lower tolerance from not drinking for nine months.”
14. “Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.”
15. “Babies are the worst roommates. They’re unemployed. They don’t pay rent. They keep insane hours. Their hygiene is horrible. If you had a roommate that did any of the things babies do, you’d ask them to move out.”

Encouraging Words and Messages for a New Mother

A few words of encouragement can go a long in helping a new mom to deal with various challenges associated with motherhood. Here are some encouragement and advice for new mom quotes:

1. “To all mothers in every circumstance, including those who struggle, I say, be peaceful. Believe in God and yourself. You are doing better than you think you are.”
2. “I know it can be hard to get up every day and have these little people rely on you; I know it’s hard to feel like sometimes your world is so small. I want to remind you; you are the world. You are the world for those little ones revolve around. You are their nurture, their home, and their comfort. You are everything to them, and I hope even on your hard days you know how special you are, especially to your little people.”
3. “Mom – One who sacrifices her body, sleep, social life, spending money, eating hot meals, peeing alone, patience, memory, energy, and sanity for love.”
4. “The strength of a mother is like no other. During times of stress, she may struggle to find her way because she’s facing her own personal demons, but her child’s welfare comes first. She’s not perfect and makes a lot of mistakes but never doubt her love; it burns deeply in her heart.”
5. “Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”
6. “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”
7. “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.”
8. “A mother’s job is to teach her children not to need her anymore. The hardest part of that job is accepting success.”
9. “Take heart tired momma. You will make it through these exhausting days, and you will be stronger for them. You are a good mother. You only need to look into the eyes of your children and believe it.”
10. “If you’re worried about being a good mother, it means you already are one.”
11. “I’ve carried a child within my body. I’ve slept with them on my chest. I’ve kissed toes and wiped away tears. I’ve been vomited on, peed on, and spent sleepless nights cradling my child. But I wouldn’t have it any other way. My body isn’t magazine perfect but when I look in the mirror, I see a mama. And there is no greater honour, love or blessing.”
12. “Whenever you’re feeling hopeless, hug your child. It’s amazing how they remind us our life is always full of love.”
13. “Even when my soul is tired, I will always find strength for my children.”
14. “My biggest accomplishment will never be money. It will be who I raised.”
15. “Someday you will wake up and your house will be clean, but your babies will be all grown up and on their own. Enjoy the mess and your kids. They are only babies once.”

These quotes are just what you need for a little pick-me-up on a tough day. Bring a smile to your face with some of these beautiful and inspirational quotes and sayings that can help ease away any doubts and worries of bringing up your little bundle of joy!

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