12/28/2025
The first night as a mother is not like any other.
It's the night the world gently, silently, and forever shifts.
All is finally calm.
Your baby is asleep.
And you, you stay awake.
You observe every breath, every tremor.
You listen to the silence like never before.
Your body is tired, sometimes aching, unrecognizable.
Your belly is no longer the same. Neither is your sense of balance.
In a single day, everything has changed.
But what weighs most heavily isn't the fatigue.
It's this whirlwind of emotions:
an immense love, a new fear, a dizzying responsibility,
and this thought that takes hold:
"This tiny being depends entirely on me."
And yet⦠in the midst of all this, a strength is born.
A strength you never suspected.
Instinctive. Silent. Profound.
That night, you understand that you will never be just yourself again.
That there will now be someone in every thought you make,
in your wakings, in your silences, in your prayers.
You sleep little.
But a mother has just been born.
No one truly prepares you for that first night.
It is intense, disorienting, overwhelming.
And yetβ¦
it is also the night you encounter the greatest love imaginable.
If you are a mother, you remember.
If you are about to become one, know this:
despite the exhaustion, despite the doubt,
that night will forever be etched in your heart π€
