Quotes about Newborn

The woman about to become a mother, or with her newborn infant upon her bosom, should be the object of trembling care and sympathy wherever she bears her tender burden or stretches her aching limbs.... God forbid that any member of the profession to which she trusts her life, doubly precious at that eventful period, should hazard it negligently, unadvisedly or selfishly.

On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone, with no one in the house but the two of us.

On the day of your birth your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice at his birth,

The innocent brightness of a new-born Day Is lovely yet; The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality...

All her questions, all the fatigue and nausea and swelling and pain, vanished the moment she held her son.

A moment of crisis can be a moment of growth, as the wounded self prepares to transform. From the chrysalis of my pain, I will forge my healing—the wings of my newborn self.

Anyone who's looked into a newborn's innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.

One place where I often see a positive focus and purpose is in the hardworking happiness of young mothers and fathers. Their new child becomes their one North Star, and they know very clearly why they are waking up each morning. This is the God Instinct, which we might just call the "need to adore." It is the need for one overarching focus, direction, and purpose in life, or what the Hebrew Scriptures describe as "one God before you" (Exodus 20:3).

I will say no matter how many times you go through pregnancy and then phase into newborn life, it never becomes routine or normal.

In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.