17 messages written for friends specifically, across 3 tones. Every one is ready to copy as it stands, or to adapt.
← All newborn wishesArchive started 22 August 2026 · last updated 22 August 2026
“Welcome to the world to your sweet new arrival! Wishing your family gentle days, restorative quiet moments, and endless wonder as you get to know each other. Please let us know whenever we can drop off dinner or lend a hand.”
“Congratulations, both of you. I am dropping food round on Thursday and will leave it on the step unless you want company, in which case say so and I will stay exactly as long as you like.”
“Congratulations on number two. You already know everything I could usefully say, so instead: the offer of taking the older one out for an afternoon stands, permanently, from now on.”
“Congratulations. This family took paperwork, patience and a great deal of waiting, and it is here now. Wishing you all a gentle first few months of getting to know each other.”
“Congratulations. People will ask about her for the next six months and forget to ask about you, so: how are you doing? Genuinely pleased for you both.”
“Congratulations, both of you. The first months are wonderful and also genuinely hard, and I would rather say so than pretend otherwise. Call at any hour, about anything, including nothing.”
“No reply needed to this or to anything else for a good while. I am around for food, laundry, or sitting quietly in your house while you sleep, and any of those can be arranged with one word from either of you. Congratulations to you both. There is no rush on anything at all.”
“This took longer for you than it does for most people and you carried that quietly, which cannot have been easy at any point along the way. I am so glad it has happened. Congratulations to all three of you, and take as much time as you need before you tell anybody anything.”
“Congratulations to all three of you. No reply needed to this or to anything else for a while.”
“Welcome to the world, small person. Congratulations to your very tired and very happy parents.”
“Congratulations. No reply expected, ever. Food arriving Thursday.”
“Thinking of you three. No visit until you ask, and then immediately.”
“Congratulations. You are now legally entitled to send us photographs at a frequency that would be alarming in any other context. We are ready. Delighted for you both.”
“Congratulations on the baby and commiserations on the sleep, which I understand you have signed away for approximately five years. Genuinely thrilled for you both.”
“Congratulations. You are about to become extremely good at doing everything with one hand, which is a genuinely marketable skill. Thrilled for you both.”
“Congratulations, and congratulations in particular on finally settling the name argument. I had money on the other one and I am delighted to have lost it.”
“Congratulations. Everyone says you will be naturals, and in your case it is annoyingly likely to be true. Very happy for you both.”
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