Inspiration for Moms Trying to Look Good Again
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40 Sweet New-Mom Quotes That Capture the Awe of Being a First-Time Parent
Because every time a baby enters the world, a mother is born too.
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You can read books, study up on 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.
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Kristen Bell
Having kids feels like that first seventh-grade crush that overwhelms every molecule in your body, but it's permanent.
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Jennifer Hudson
You never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.
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Robert Browning
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
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Mary Mason
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.
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Anita Diamant
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.
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Tina Fey
Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all.
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Simone De Beauvoir
There is a wondrous curiosity in every young mother. It is a strange miracle to see, to hold a living being formed in and coming out of one's self.
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Amy Poehler
When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows.
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Gail Tsukiyama
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.
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Elizabeth Stone
Making the decision to have a child — it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
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Washington Irving
A mother's love endures through all.
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Kate Winslet
Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.
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Kara Ferwerda
There are hard days in motherhood, but looking at your baby sleeping reminds you why it's all worth it.
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Penelope Leach
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.
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Karen Maezen Miller
The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.
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Maya Angelou
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
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Victor Hugo
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Naya Rivera
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 as perfect as possible.
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Jim Gaffigan
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.
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Harriette Hartigan
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.
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Toni Morrison
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.
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William Macneile Dixon
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.
Marisa LaScala Senior Parenting & Relationships Editor Senior Parenting & Relationships Editor Marisa LaScala covers all things parenting, from the postpartum period through empty nests, for Good Housekeeping; she previously wrote about motherhood for Parents and Working Mother.
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