There’s a unique joy that comes with having a baby. New parents often find themselves overwhelmed with emotion – and seeking comfort in the words of others.

For those moments, it can be comforting to hear wisdom and humor from others who have experienced parenthood firsthand.

Here are 100+ quotes about having a baby to provide some wonderful perspectives on raising children and becoming a parent.

May you laugh, cry, be inspired, and be encouraged as you read through these special words about the exciting journey of having a baby.

100+ Sweet Quotes & Captions About Having A Baby

  1. A baby is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous. – Dean Koontz
  2. A baby is a blank canvas. You get to paint the picture of who they will become.” – Unknown
  3. A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. – Unknown
  4. Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. – Elizabeth Stone
  5. A baby is a bundle of firsts that excite and delight, giggles that come from deep inside and are always contagious, everything wonderful and precious and your love for her will last forever. – Susan Gale
  6. A baby is a bit of stardust blown from the hand of God. – Unknown
  7. There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One root. The other is wings. -Hodding Carter Jr.
  8. A baby is a love sent from heaven above, a precious little angel to cherish and to love. – Unknown
  9. Like stars are to the sky, so are the children of our world. They deserve to shine! -Chinonye J. Chidolue
  10. Of all the things my hands have held the best by far are you.
  11. Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. – Tina Brown
  12. There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles. – Jared Padalecki
  13. What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. – Benjamin Spock
  14. It’s a good thing babies don’t give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple. – Anita Diamant
  15. Children have neither past nor future. They enjoy the present, which very few of us do. – Jean De La Bruyere
  16. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle. – Vincent Van Gogh
  17. It is a moment of pure ecstasy and satisfaction when you see a smile flicker on a baby’s lips, just as they gently passes into a deep slumber.
  18. All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood – all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience. -Penelope Cruz
  19. And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. – Nicholas Sparks
  20. Do you know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket. – Lish McBride
  21. Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact, the family brings up the baby by being brought up by him. – Erik H. Erikson
  22. Sometimes the littlest things take up the most room in your heart. – Winnie the Pooh
  23. A baby’s cry is precisely as serious as it sounds. – Jean Liedloff
  24. Life doesn’t get more real than having a newborn at home. – Eric Church
  25. A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty. – Unknown
  26. Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. – Charles Dickens
  27. A baby is a dancing joy of life. – Debasish Mridha
  28. Children make you want to start life over. – Muhammad Ali
  29. The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. – Olivia Wilde
  30. When the baby is born, all that pain (that was endured) vanishes in an instant. Love for that tiny baby makes one forget the pain, and the fear.
  31. Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. – Tina Brown
  32. 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. – Mary Mason
  33. Mother is her son’s first god. She must teach him the most important lesson of all – how to love. – T. F. Hodge
  34. Perfection only exists in babies and pastries. – Gayle Wray
  35. Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts. – Tina Fey
  36. Make no mistake about why these babies are here. They are here to replace us. – Jerry Seinfeld
  37. The unborn baby is created in the image of God for greater things, to love and be loved. – Mother Theresa
  38. No one else will ever know the strength of my love for you. After all, you’re the only one who knows what my heart sounds like from the inside. – Kristen Proby
  39. Making the decision to have a child – is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. – Elizabeth Stone
  40. For this child, I have prayed, and the Lord has granted the desires of my heart. – 1 Samuel 1:27
  41. The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
  42. You are the best thing that I have ever waited for. – Unknown
  43. A baby is something that you carry inside you for 9 months, in your arms for 3 years, and in your heart until the day you die. – Mary Mason
  44. The changes in your body will last for just nine months, but the beauty of motherhood will embrace you for the rest of your life. – Unknown
  45. You’ll never understand life until it grows inside of you. – Sandra C. Kassis
  46. Being pregnant means you’re waiting for the birth of your future best friend. -Brenda Kosciuk
  47. I’m an expectant mother, which means I’m in love with someone I’ve never even seen. -Brenda Kosciuk
  48. Before you were born, we dreamed of you, we imagined you, and we prayed for you. Now that you are here, we hope for you, we love you and we thank God for you. -Unknown
  49. A new baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. -Eda J. LaShan
  50. 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. -Simone De Beauvoir
  51. A baby boy has a special way of bringing out the man in his father and the little boy in his grandfather. – Tanya Masse
  52. And she loved a little boy very, very much, even more than she loved herself. – Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree
  53. If I have a monument in this world, it is my son. – Maya Angelou
  54. Have a little faith in your sons. This journey will be the making of them. – C.J. Milbrandt
  55. Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing. – George Saunders
  56. Sons are born to make their fathers better men. – Mekael Shane
  57. To be a mother of a son is one of the most important things you can do to change the world. Raise them to respect women, raise them to stand up for others, raise them to be kind. – Shannon L. Alder
  58. Men are what their mothers made them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  59. The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son. – Sarah Shahi
  60. There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother for a son that transcends all other affections of the heart. – Washington Irving
  61. Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life. – Sophocles
  62. No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. – Harold MacMillan
  63. If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. – Sigmund Freud
  64. A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. – Irish proverb
  65. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I’d be fine. – Jenny McCarthy
  66. You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God’s precious child, given to you as a gift.
  67. I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
  68. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman’s crowning creative experience of a lifetime.
  69. When the baby is born, all that pain (that was endured) vanishes in an instant. Love for that tiny baby makes one forget the pain and the fear.
  70. As babies, we’re born blank sheets of paper. Not a single mark. As we grow older, lines form, then colors and patterns. Before long that paper is all sorts of brilliant. Like a kaleidoscope, no two are exactly alike.
  71. Words can not express the joy of a new life.
  72. We never know the love of a parent until we become parents ourselves.
  73. There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.
  74. A mother’s joy begins when new life is stirring inside…when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the very first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.
  75. With every newborn baby, a little sun rises.
  76. Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged man.
  77. Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. – Tina Brown
  78. I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
  79. Before you were born I carried you under my heart. From the moment you arrived in this world until the moment I leave it, I will always carry you in my heart.
  80. You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God’s precious child, given to you as a gift.
  81. Of all the things my hands have held the best by far, are you. – Unknown
  82. Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. – Tina Brown
  83. Children have neither past nor future. They enjoy the present, which very few of us do. -Jean De La Bruyere
  84. All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood – all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience. -Penelope Cruz
  85. I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food. – Robert Orben
  86. Before I got married I had six theories about raising children. Now, I have six children and no theories. – John Wilmot
  87. A toddler can do more in one unsupervised moment than most people can do all day. -Unknown
  88. A baby makes love stronger, the days shorter, the nights longer, savings smaller, and a home happier. – Unknown
  89. You can learn many things from children. How much patience do you have, for instance? – Franklin P. Jones
  90. You are loved for the boy you are, the man you will become, and the precious son you will always be. – Unknown
  91. A baby boy arrives, and just like that, everything changes. The world gets bigger, hearts grow fuller, and life means more because he’s in it. – Unknown
  92. Son, you’ll outgrow my lap but never my heart. – Unknown
  93. A baby boy has a special way of bringing out the man in his father and the little boy in his grandfather. – Tanya Masse
  94. Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life. – Sophocles
  95. A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. – Ronald Knox
  96. Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy. – Tina Fey
  97. People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one. – Leo Burke
  98. There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. – Jill Churchill
  99. Children make you want to start life over. – Muhammad Ali
  100. A tiny daughter gives parents a life in a climate of perpetual wonder. – Pierre Doucet
  101. A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. – Victor Hugo
  102. Perfection only exists in babies and pastries. – Gayle Wray
  103. A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it. – Frank A. Clark
  104. A new baby is like the beginning of all things-wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. -Eda J. Le Shan
  105. A baby’s cry is precisely as serious as it sounds. – Jean Liedloff
  106. A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on. – Carl Sandburg

Having a baby is one of life’s most beautiful and profound experiences. From the moment your bundle of joy arrives, you are showered in an endless supply of love and appreciation for the gift of life that has been handed to you.

The 100+ quotes about having a baby attest to how special this journey can be and offer a variety of perspectives on parenting, bonding with your child, and simply savoring the experience.

Whether it’s through hilarious quotes to soothe nerves or touching moments that touch the heart, having a baby provides unparalleled joy along with the world of opportunities ahead.