Quotes About Newborn

My first baby looked neither new nor old. He was otherworldly, like a pure ray of intelligence, like an innocent visitor from a more benevolent planet.

Of course, your closest family and friends will want to get to know this little person, too, but make sure that visiting isn't your primary activity these days—except for those truly helpful people who can make a meal, run a load of laundry, or hold the baby while you nap! The

I was wondering if I could love another child as much as I love my son. And what I realized, within hours of my daughter being born, not only do I love her just as much if not more.

Excessive sleep. It can be a little hard to determine this in the early days, but generally speaking, your baby should wake up every 2–3 hours and be ravenous.

It's a GIRL. It's a little girl, with scrunched-up petal lips and a tuft of dark hair and hands in tiny fits, up by her ears. All that time, that's who was in there. And it's weird, but the minute I saw her I just thought: IT'S YOU. Of course it is.

Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about. I know firsthand:

Melayne looked across at Ysane, who was propped up in bed, nursing her new son. Bantry, beaming as proudly as if he had miraculously given birth himself, hovered nervously at the far side of the bed.

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

All parents remember the moment when they first held their children - the tiny crumpled face, an entire new person, emerging from the hospital blanket.

Two Chinese people named Mr. and Mrs. Wong were married and had a child. They asked the doctor if they could see their newborn. A nurse brought over their baby, but it was a white baby. The two of them said, "Hey, that's not our baby! That's a white baby. We are Chinese and two Wongs definitely don't make a white.

The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.

When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.

Torquelike, fear encircled her throat with its dull constant pressure.... ...give the newborn child fresh from his own salt sea a look at the bigger ocean he had crossed. p 20

Now microbes seem to have an enormous mutation rate (or some other method of hereditary adaptation), for, within a few years, they have evolved new drug-resistant strains. We humans cannot perform such evolutionary feats. But we can simulate major adaptive mutations by adding iodine to the drinking water, or by putting drops into the eyes of the newborn, to protect them from enemies against which our natural defences are inadequate.

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

Me sentía como mi hermana cuando dio a luz a Thomas. «Es como si mirara por un embudo», me dijo. «El mundo se ha encogido y solo somos él y yo».

It's like I'm looking through a funnel, she had said, gazing at his newborn form. The world has just shrunk to me and him.

I felt like my sister, when she had first given birth to Thomas. "It's like I'm looking through a funnel," she had said, gazing at his newborn form. "The world has just shrunk to me and him.

It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn't have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry.

A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

When she was born, she looked so much like him that I can remember wondering if anyone would believe I had anything to do with the little miracle in my arms.

We need a national family leave policy that will allow both men and women to take paid time off from work to care for a newborn or a sick relative.

I've developed a fun text when a friend has just had a baby. I ask a classic question: 'Are you sleeping?' The reply is inevitably that they aren't, they're getting a few hours here and there, they're exhausted. It's then when I swoop in: 'It'll all be worth it when they're softly stroking your hair as you slip into oblivion.'

ONE OF THE greatest gifts you can give your newborn is to raise him or her as a vegetarian. The choice to have a baby is courageous on so many levels—all of which reflect the desire to pass on the gift of life—and what better way to affirm the sacredness of life than to shape your baby's eating patterns in a way that is optimal for health and simultaneously spares other beings from harm?