Quotes About Newborn

A week after our daughter Lauren was born, my wife, Bonnie, and I were completely exhausted. Each night Lauren kept waking us. Bonnie had been torn in the delivery and was taking painkillers. She could barely walk. After five days of staying home to help, I went back to work. She seemed to be getting better.

The baby, when he finally arrived, was in excellent health. Mary was exhausted but triumphant.

A newborn already has nine months of experience when she is born.

Incredible experience, watching a baby birth on the internet. It's now my screensaver.

Remember, sleep training means starting to respect your baby's need to sleep when he is a newborn by anticipating when he will need to sleep (within one to two hours of wakefulness), learning to recognize drowsy signs, and developing a bedtime routine. Then your baby will not become overtired.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

Congratulations to your mom and dad for birth of a sweet child!Sorry that I couldn't wish them when you were born.

The Austrian-born Israeli philosopher Martin Buber describes this quality of presence that life demands of us: "In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you.

I reached out and touched a tiny pink toe that peeked from Kaden's swaddling shirt. "He's beautiful," I said. "How are you feeling?" "Well enough," she answered, rolling her eyes, "considering I just paraded my lady parts to a killer barbarian." She sighed. "But I suppose, compared to what you've been through, it's a small indignity to bear.

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

Culture constantly impregnates the newborn from the first day,

The one who reigns must die, At the hands of she born last, And the last will make the first, When the bastard twins are one, And blessed be the newborn King, For Charyn will be barren no more.

All grief would slip away, and all questions would be remembered as the uncomprehending wails of a newborn who did not grasp the meaning of his existence and hungered only for milk.

There had been options, before the baby, but none of them had been pursued... I had been quiet when there was no reason to be quiet, consisten when consistency didn't matter. For the last twenty years I had lived as if I were taking care of a newborn baby.

Once the second child comes into existence, the attention will start shifting to the newly-born baby.

He pointed to the newborn.'This way he'll have a home, he'll have parents, he'll have a brother.' 'And a rapist for a father.

Oh, that we would be as attentive to the Word as a newborn is to the milk.

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.

close to the objects of her attachment, the little lovely yellow chickens, surely the prettiest of all new-born things; humiliatingly pretty beside the rough ugliness of new-born man, who piques himself on being lord of all created creatures; God knows why, except that he is slowest in development, and quickest in evil!

In the presence of a newly minted human being, I am reminded of what wholeness looks like. And I am sometimes moved to wonder, "Whatever became of me?

It appears that children are hard-wired to release fear through angering and crying. The newborn baby, mourning the death of living safely and fully contained inside the mother, utters the first of many angry cries not only to call for nurturance and attention, but also to release her fear.

Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,