05/10/2025
Dear New Mama,
Today is a day you may have dreamed about. Or maybe you never really thought about it until you found yourself cradling this tiny life that has changed everything. This is your first Mother’s Day. Not because of a card or flowers or because someone says it’s official. But you feel it. Because you have stayed up when the world slept, whispering lullabies in the dark. Because you have loved through exhaustion, doubt, and breathtaking joy. Because YOU are already everything your baby needs.
Motherhood doesn’t come all at once when your baby is born. It settles quietly into your life through the sleepless nights, the tiny fists wrapped around your finger, and the million unseen choices you make every day. And even when you can’t see it yet, even when you wonder if you’re doing enough, YOU ARE.
Today, I hope you pause for just a moment. Not to judge yourself, not to measure yourself against anything or anyone else, but simply to notice you are a mother. You are doing holy work. You are growing and learning right alongside your baby. And you deserve to be celebrated. You give the kind of love that shows up, messy and tired, over and over again.
So today, wherever you are, whether still carrying your baby inside you, rocking them in your arms, or chasing their tiny feet across the floor, I hope you feel the deep, fierce, world-changing truth: You are enough. You are beautiful. You are a mother. And you are so, so loved.
