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66 Cute New Mom Quotes And Sayings

Motherhood is so many things. It's a journey unlike anything else, and when it's your first time doing it, no amount of parenting books, advice or classes can really prepare a new mom for all that she's about to experience. And while bringing the baby home is just the beginning of the lifelong bond as mother and child, those early days are treasures she'll hold onto for the rest of her life.

Whether you're the new mom yourself or you're looking to support one, these sweet new mom quotes can make for the best messages in a card, Instagram captions or words of encouragement. We even included some funny mom-related quotes that will help remind her that she's not alone when she's dealing with some, erm, parenting challenges.

The most important thing for any mom or parent, is that they have all the love and support they can get from their friends and family. And that they are reminded they are doing a great job, even when it might not feel like it. So these words can make all the difference and help her know just how special she is (so can one of these best gifts for new moms, BTW!).

Tina Brown

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

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Rosie Pope

If you're a mom, you're a superhero. Period.

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Princess Diana

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

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Pamela S. Nadav

There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.

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Oprah

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

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Nikki Dalton

Feeling fat lasts nine months, but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.

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Nicole Fornabaio

Spit-up is my new favorite accessory; no outfit is complete without it.

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Lisa Jo Baker

A mother continues to labor long after the baby is born.

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Linda Wooten

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed.

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Kate Winslet

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

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Karen Maezen Miller

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

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Jessica Lange

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

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Harriette Hartigan

Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold, and the body, a miracle of wisdom.

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George Bernard Shaw

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but catches fire again every time a child is born.

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Ezra Taft Benson

No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.

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Cynthia Rowley

I think of motherhood as a great big adventure. You set off on a journey, you don't really know how to navigate things, and you don't exactly know where you're going or how you're going to get there.

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Chrissy Teigen

No one told me I would be coming home in diapers, too.

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Carrie Fisher

Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.

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Cardinal Mermillod

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

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Anonymous

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten and the future worth living for.

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Bradley D. Foster

Perhaps the reason we respond universally to our mothers' love is because it typifies the love of our Savior.

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Anonymous

Babies are bits of star-dust blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star.

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Amy Tan

A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.

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Robin Lim

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

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Taraji. P. Henson

Once you're a mom, you're always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.

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Barbara Kingsolver

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

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Anne Lamott

There are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

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Kristen Bell

Having kids feels like that first seventh-grade crush that overwhelms every molecule in your body, but it's permanent.

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Jennifer Hudson

You never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.

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Robert Browning

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

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Gilda Radner

Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary — it's an act of infinite optimism.

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Mary Mason

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.

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Anita Diamant

Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment, or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment.

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Tina Fey

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all.

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Cynthia Rowley

I like to think of motherhood as a great big adventure. You set off on a journey, you don't really know how to navigate things, and you don't exactly know where you're going or how you're going to get there.

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Simone De Beauvoir

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.

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Amy Poehler

When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows.

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Gail Tsukiyama

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

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Elizabeth Stone

Making the decision to have a child — it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

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Virginia Kelley

There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.

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Washington Irving

A mother's love endures through all.

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Kate Winslet

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

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Kara Ferwerda

There are hard days in motherhood, but looking at your baby sleeping reminds you why it's all worth it.

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Penelope Leach

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.

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Charles Dickens

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

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Karen Maezen Miller

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

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Maya Angelou

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

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Victor Hugo

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

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Naya Rivera

You're always going to wonder if you're doing things wrong, but that's what it means to be a mom, to care so much about someone else that you just want to be as perfect as possible.

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Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

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Jim Gaffigan

Babies are the worst roommates. They're unemployed. They don't pay rent. They keep insane hours. Their hygiene is horrible. If you had a roommate that did any of the things babies do, you'd ask them to move out.

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Harriette Hartigan

Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.

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Toni Morrison

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing.

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Eda LeShan

A new baby is like the beginning of all things — wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

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William Macneile Dixon

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

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Charles Osgood

Babies are always more trouble than you thought — and more wonderful.

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Jodi Picoult

Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood — finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

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Leo J. Burke

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.

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Sophia Loren

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

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Linda Wooten

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed.

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Jill Churchill

There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

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Agatha Christie

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

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Laura Stavoe Harm

We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong.

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George Bernard Shaw

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.

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Elizabeth Bard

A baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in.

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6 Email Marketing Challenges And How To Overcome Them

Email is an effective and affordable marketing tactic. Implementing email marketing is straightforward, thanks to the best email templates and platforms that allow you to segment your lists and track results. Notably, email helps you deliver personalized content based on customer purchase history and prospect engagement, and customers can respond directly to offers.

However, like all marketing channels, email marketing has its share of obstacles to overcome. We'll take a closer look at the most significant issues plaguing marketers and how to use email marketing best practices to solve them.

Email marketing challenges and solutions

The six biggest email marketing challenges include earning new subscribers, increasing open rates, retaining subscribers, boosting click-through rates, and achieving measurable ROI. 

1. Earning new subscribers can be challenging.

To email people legally, they must opt into your email list. If you buy an email list and try to use it in a campaign, you'll likely get kicked off the email platform and be flagged as a spammer. It's critical to build an email list organically, even if that takes time.

Solution: The best way to earn new subscribers is to explain the benefits of opting into your list. Have a clear value proposition to answer people's key concerns. For example, explain that you're providing meaningful product updates or sending special offers that aren't available anywhere else.

Let people know precisely why they should subscribe to your emails and how your emails will benefit them. Here are some ways to promote your list and boost subscriptions: 

Showcase a massive subscriber list. If you have an extensive subscriber list, showcase that in your email opt-in form to provide social proof that your content is valuable. For example, you can say, "Join over 12,000 subscribers!"

Make it easy to sign up on your website. Promote the email subscription on your website by launching a sidebar or pop-up opt-in box. 

Allow people to opt in from your blog. If you're creating engaging blog content, include a sign-up button at the end of your posts. 

Have current subscribers promote your list. Encourage subscribers to share and forward your emails to grow your list by tapping into their friends and family. 

Offer incentives. Create a landing page offering an incentive like a free trial or sample in exchange for subscriptions.

Other ways to grow your email list include adding a link to employee signatures, displaying gated offers on your website, and requiring an email address from your website visitors for them to access quotes and certain resources.

2. Increasing email open rates isn't easy.

On average, email open rates are around 21%, according to Mailchimp, though this rate differs by industry. Since an unread email doesn't do you any good, increasing your email open rates will improve your email marketing campaigns overall. 

Solution: You can increase your marketing emails' open rates in several ways.

Use concise subject lines. Since subject lines are the first thing recipients notice, focus on writing eye-catching ones. Craft subject lines that are short and concise to grab recipients' attention immediately. Use A/B testing to see which subject lines are most compelling.

Personalize your subject lines. According to Campaign Monitor data, recipients are 26% more likely to open emails with personalized subject lines, leading to a 760% increase in email revenue.

Use trigger events to send emails. Sending emails after specific trigger events can boost open rates. For example, when someone signs up for your email list or fills out a web form, send them a welcome email. According to GetResponse, welcome emails have an email open rate of more than 68%. Also, if someone abandons their online shopping cart on your e-commerce site, sending them multiple follow-up emails can improve your sales significantly. Moosend data says 45% of abandoned cart emails are opened, and nearly 11% of those finish the sale.

To reduce abandoned e-commerce carts, offer discounts and incentives such as faster, cheaper shipping in your follow-up emails.

3. Low deliverability rates will doom your campaign.

A compelling email with an interesting subject line won't matter if all your emails get sent straight to the spam box. Passing the spam filter has always been a massive email marketing challenge. Additionally, full inboxes and non-existent email addresses create deliverability issues. 

When your deliverability rate is exceptionally low, ISPs may block you. Poor deliverability is a sign of wasted time, money and effort.

Solution: You can take several steps to improve your email deliverability rates.

Avoid spammy words. Avoid spam filters by steering clear of common spam words in your subject lines. Spam triggers vary by industry, but typical spam filters look for words and phrases like "buy," "cash," "earn $," "save $," "sale," "subscribe," "make $," "click," "free," "trial," "cost," "cheap," "prize," "as seen on," "be your own boss" and "unlimited."

Clean up your contact list. While there's not much you can do about full inboxes, you can boost deliverability rates by cleaning up your email list. For example, remove inactive contacts. Use email analytics to find contacts who never open your emails or engage with your website, and delete them.

Confirm user emails. To improve email address accuracy, add an extra step to the opt-in process. For example, require subscribers to enter their email information twice or confirm their email address via a confirmation email.

Help users update their contact information. Subscribers may change an email address or lose access to an existing one. Make it easy for them to update their contact information via your website.

4. Retaining email subscribers is crucial.

It's great to add subscribers, but keep a close eye on your unsubscribes. Are your subscribers hitting the unsubscribe link regularly? If so, there could be a problem with your content, frequency and relevance. If you have a bunch of active subscribers, it pays to make every effort to keep them.

Solution: The best way to keep your current subscribers is by sending relevant emails to the right audience. Try these tips to keep subscribers engaged: 

Segment your email list. Use email segmentation to segment your list by customer type and address the unique pain points of various buyer personas. For example, you might have one list of customers enrolled in your customer loyalty program, another for occasional buyers, and another for prospects. Or, segment subscribers based on the products they buy or the amount they spend. 

Target emails to various segments. After organizing subscribers into segmented lists, send each list emails that specifically address their needs and desires. You might send an email to a prospect with a one-time discount to lure them into buying, whereas an established customer might get an email inviting them to an in-store event.

Reengage inactive customers. Reinvigorate your list with a reengagement email marketing strategy to entice your least active subscribers. If they don't respond, consider purging them. Their email addresses may be obsolete, or they may not be interested in your content anymore.

Evaluate your content. Most of the content you send should be informational ("we are opening a new location" or "spring fashions have arrived") and social ("happy birthday," "happy holidays"), while some should be promotional, with and without discounts. If you overwhelm subscribers with hard-sell emails, they are sure to unsubscribe in record numbers. 

Optimize your email timing. Send enough emails to stay top of mind, but not so many that you clog up subscribers' inboxes. You can also allow subscribers to tell you how often they would like to receive emails when they opt in. Give them an opportunity to reduce the number they receive if they consider unsubscribing.

5. Low click-through rates can sink your campaign.

Another top email marketing challenge is improving email click-through rates (CTRs) and maintaining a consistent number. Even if recipients open your emails, it doesn't mean they'll read your content and click on the links inside. If they're not clicking, you don't have a good chance of converting them into paying customers.

Solution: Your low CTRs may be a result of disinterested subscribers. Try these methods to capture their interest enough for them to click your links: 

Use video content in your email. Video content is more engaging. Campaign Monitor says that adding videos to your marketing materials can boost your CTRs by 65%. 

Boost subscriber engagement. Use images and include polls, social share links, and subscriber bonuses to improve engagement. 

Optimize your emails for mobile. You need to use a mobile-responsive design for your emails. If your emails aren't properly optimized for mobile, they may take too long to load or become unreadable with small fonts. This can result in disinterested recipients and lower CTRs.

6. Measurable ROI is hard to achieve.

Measuring digital marketing ROI isn't easy. Maybe you saw a 4% increase in CTR for your latest email blast, but did you experience any increase in conversions or leads?

Solution: Closed-loop marketing can help achieve measurable ROI to resolve email marketing challenges. With closed-loop marketing, you'll follow a subscriber from the first point of contact (visiting your website) to their final conversion into a paying customer via website cookies and internal communications.

Set up your email marketing campaign for success with the right tools and advice. Read our reviews of the best email marketing services to find a feature-rich and affordable partner.

Email marketing do's and don'ts

Do take these actions when planning and launching an email marketing campaign:

Include sign-up links. In your email signature, on social media channels, at the end of posted and live videos, and in website pop-ups, you should give readers a link to subscribe to your emails.

Offer subscription bonuses. Come up with a compelling bonus to give people when they subscribe to your list. This could take the form of a one-time discount or a free ebook.

Be clear about what you're sending. On your email sign-up form, tell potential subscribers exactly what they can expect to receive from you via email.

Test subject lines. Use A/B testing to see which subject lines work best.

Position your call to action. Place your CTA on the right side of the email for best results.

Resend campaigns. If a recipient didn't open the email the first time, try sending it again. Experiment with a different subject line or different send time.

Here's what not to do in email marketing: 

Maximizing your email campaign's potential for success

New challenges will arise with email marketing, of course, just as they will with any other marketing channel. But don't give up: You can overcome these problems by making the right moves and observing your performance. Use the tips here to handle the current biggest email marketing challenges, and watch your efforts pay off in conversions.

Shane Barker contributed to the writing and reporting in this article.

Jennifer Dublino

Contributing Writer at business.Com

Jennifer Dublino is a prolific researcher, writer, and editor, specializing in topical, engaging, and informative content. She has written numerous e-books, slideshows, websites, landing pages, sales pages, email campaigns, blog posts, press releases and thought leadership articles. Topics include consumer financial services, home buying and finance, general business topics, health and wellness, neuroscience and neuromarketing, and B2B industrial products.

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