35 Funny and Sweet Quotes About Baby Sleep

The average newborn baby needs as much as seventeen hours of shut-eye in a twenty-four-hour period. Odds are good that most of your earliest family photos will feature a slumbering little one. You can create magical, memorable social media posts when you pair precious photos of your sleeping babies with hand-selected baby sleep quotes. 

With the Pixsee smart baby camera, you won't miss a moment of your sweet baby's first moments. While you catch some shut-eye, your Pixsee will be hard at work capturing precious photos for you to share with your loved ones. Smart capture automatically takes between 6 and 12 photos each day so you can easily track your baby's growth journey. 

We've even taken the work out of collecting quotes for your perfect posts. Keep reading to explore 35 of our favorite quotes about parenting, mom life, and baby sleep. We've included funny quotes, literary quotes, and wisdom from some of our favorite celebrities. 

Read on to discover the quote that just might inspire your next viral baby post!

Funny Baby Quotes About Sleep

1. "Sleep when your baby sleeps. Everyone knows this classic tip, but I say why stop there? Scream when your baby screams. Take Benadryl when your baby takes Benadryl. And walk around pantless when your baby walks around pantless." -Tina Fey
2. "Sometimes going to bed feels like the highlight of my day. Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings." -Jim Gaffigan
3. "A sleeping baby is really good at doing the one thing you don't get to do anymore." -Linda Poindexter
4. "I'm a walking zombie and I think I'm going to be like that for a while." -Tiffani Thiessen

5. "They tell you that at his age, all they do is eat, sleep, and poop. And what I've learned is they can actually do all three at the same time. Who knew?" -Josh Duhamel
6. "A perfect example of minority rule is a baby in the house." –The Milwaukee Journal
7. "The bedtime routine for my kids is like this Royal Coronation Jubilee Centennial of rinsing and plaque and dental appliances and the stuffed animal semicircle of emotional support. And I've gotta read eight different moron books. You know what my bedtime story was when I was a kid? Darkness!" –Jerry Seinfeld
8. "Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds." – JoJo Jensen
9. "I’m sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming." -Colin Powell

Sweet Baby Quotes About Sleep

10. "Happiness is when you’re singing lullabies as you watch your baby fall asleep." – Debasish Mridha
11. "Despite having a million things to do, it is very difficult to look away from my sleeping baby. She is like a magnet!" –Maria Jose Ovalle

Inspiring Baby Quotes About Sleep

12. "Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." -Napoleon Bonaparte
13. "When babies sleep with or near their parents, they are not being spoiled, they are being made to feel secure and accepted." -Dr. Lendon Smith
14. "The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: These seven ought not to be awakened from sleep." -Chanakya
15. "Sleep is the best meditation." -The Dalai Lama

Literary Baby Quotes About Sleep

16. "A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveller in a very far country." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. "There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. "A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them." -Victor Hugo
19. "Sleep is like the unicorn- it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any." -Dr. Seuss
20. "In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud." –Albus Dumbledore
21. "Little boys should never be put to sleep. They always wake up a day older." –Peter Pan
22. "And he thinks that if his soul had a form, this is what it would be. A baby sleeping in his arms." –Neal Shusterman
23. "No one can possess an afternoon of rain beating against the window, or the serenity of a sleeping child, or the magical moment when the waves break on the rocks. It is through such moments that God reveals himself to mankind." –Paulo Coelho
24. "Kiss your children goodnight, even if they are already asleep." -H. Jackson Brown, Jr
25. "Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee." -Elizabeth Prentiss

Celebrity Baby Quotes About Sleep

26. "The babies are amazing; they begin each day all warm and sleepy, smelling of promise." -Julia Roberts
27. "My aunt gave me the best advice: Put her to sleep yourself every night. Sing to her and cradle her in your arms and sit by her side- every night. Because one day you won't be able to." -Salma Hayek
28. "The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep while the baby sleeps. I've heard that so many times. I never realized how true it really is. If you don't, you'll be walking around like a zombie." -Tia Mowry
29. "Why don't kids understand that their nap is not for them but for us?" -Alyson Hannigan
30. "First thing in the morning, we're really tired, and we look at each other and we wonder, "Are we ever going to get sleep?" And yet, it doesn't matter if you don't get sleep. It's an honor to take care of them." –Angelina Jolie
31. "A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's." -Princess Diana
32. "I feel everything more deeply. Every action I take, I think of her first. That's a big change for me. That - and no sleep!" -Jenna Dewan-Tatum
33. "Embrace it. Especially because of the lives we live, a lot of times other people have to care for our kids and you have to have that mommy time, Get your sleep!" -Jennifer Hudson
34. "Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent, I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy." -Molly Ringwald
35. "Like every other mother on the planet, from the moment my first baby entered the house, I stopped getting real sleep. Motherhood means I'm always a little bit awake, a little bit alert at all times. One eye open." -Shonda Rhimes

The Best Baby Sleep Quotes for Social Media and More

When you watch your sweet baby slumbering, you could write a poem about the curve of their cheek against the bassinet. It's no wonder that sleeping babies inspired so many fantastic baby sleep quotes! These are perfect captions for social media posts featuring your precious, sleepy little one.

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