Short Newborn Wishes

New parents are reading this on a phone, one-handed, on very little sleep, in a notification list that is already forty messages long. Every message they open costs them a decision about whether to reply. Short is not the lesser option here — it is the considerate one, and it is what the whole set is built around.

Everything is under 25 words and none of it asks a question. That second constraint matters as much as the first. A message that needs an answer is a task, and the person receiving it has no capacity for tasks.

The ones that work do one of two things: they remove an obligation, or they state a fact. No visit until you ask. Nothing needs handing over. Take the full entitlement. Notice how many of these are addressed from a manager to someone on their team — brevity is what makes a message from work land as thoughtful rather than as an intrusion into leave.

There is deliberately no advice anywhere in this set, at any length. Every new parent is already receiving more of it than they can use.