You’re super excited about your baby and your new role as a mom! I know, a new chapter of your life is full of deep emotions and intense joy, and it deserves to be celebrated with a special tattoo.
Let me show you 22 inspiring ideas for your first baby tattoo! From simple designs like birthdates and names or complex mosaics of details: birth hours, weight, footprints, handprints, and even baby portraits — these ideas will help you figure out the best design to honor you and your little one.
1. Motherhood
When you look at this design you instantly feel the warmth and tenderness! Mom is hugging her baby, plus there is a floral decoration making this tattoo truly adorable. Amazing celebration of the deep bond and love between mom and her baby.
2. Baby’s Footprints Tattoo
Baby footprints, name, and birth date in stylish font — a wonderful design to ink on your forearm. This is a great and touching symbol of the beginning of your baby’s journey through life.
3. In Mommy’s Arms
There’s something incredible about the way a mom holds her newborn — you instantly start to melt. Floral elements and the name of the baby in cursive font add even more tenderness to this ink design.
3. Portrait Of A Baby
This portrait of a baby is done in simple and minimalist technique but it’s still very vivid and impressive. Baby’s eyes speak about joy and excitement.
4. Name And Birth Date Tattoo
If you’re into subtle and minimalist inks this one is perfect — just a name, birth date, and birth time decorated with three small black hearts. Simple, cute, and meaningful!
5. “Maa” Tattoo
The very same moment you meet your firstborn you become a mom for the first time. What better way to honor your new role than an ink depicting a mom holding her precious baby with the script element “Maa” which is the Indian word for mother, and two red hearts.
6. Fist Bump Tattoo
This design is a cute and funny way to honor your baby! A very realistic and masterfully inked depiction of a parent’s hand and a baby’s little hand doing a fist bump. There is also a birth date creatively presented as engraved on a bracelet.
7. Tiny Hand, Name, And Birth Date
Another sweet tattoo: the baby’s cute little hand, name, and birth date are inked above the fingerprint heart with parents’ birth dates. Awesome choice for any mom who wants to honor not only her baby’s arrival but her relationship with her partner too.
8. Baby Elephant
This baby tattoo is a playful design with a little baby elephant, name, and blue color splash resembling clouds. You’re happy and excited and this is a great way to celebrate a great change in your life that comes with the baby.
9. Mom’s Firstborn
Like one of the previous ones, this design too portrays a mom holding a baby and two red hearts beating like one. Welcome to motherhood, you’ll see what the purest and strongest love feels like!
10. Baby’s Birth Details And Footprint
The whole mosaic of elements is designed as a tattoo sleeve: birth time, name, weight, length, footprint, and birth date written in Roman numerals. If you prefer a large tattoo to celebrate your firstborn this mosaic will be a great inspiration!
11. Impressive Tattoo Portrait Of A Baby
This hyperrealistic portrait of the baby looks almost like a high-quality photograph. It’s a stunning choice to ink and it’s a heartwarming way to save memory of your baby’s look at the beginning of its life.
12. Tiny Hand
You can go with a more simple one too — just a teeny-tiny hand shaded with dot work technique and a name in stylish font. It’s a meaningful and subtle way to welcome your firstborn into the world.
13. Mommy And Baby
Design that looks like a drawing — mom kissing the baby’s head and a great flower! If you like to celebrate your new role as a mom in a more elegant way — this is a wonderful pick.
14. One-Line First Baby Tattoo
Another simple choice: one-line technique is used to depict a baby, umbilical cord, and hearts that symbolize love between a baby and mom. This one also contains the baby’s name and birth date.
15. Name, Birth Date, And Footprint
A simple but powerful tattoo design — footprint done in dot work, baby’s name, and birth date. An awesome choice for new moms who prefer more subtle tats.
16. Baby And Swan Tattoo
You’ll love this creative design — it’s a detailed and hyperrealistic portrait of a newborn sleeping guarded by a swan. If you prefer something different than popular first-baby tattoo designs — look no further.
17. Natal Planets And Baby’s Birth Details
It is such a marvelous and creative tattoo: the baby’s name and birth details are cleverly incorporated in the depiction of natal planets and their orbits. A very inspiring idea for a first-baby ink.
18. New Chapter Starts With A Baby
A new chapter of your life starts with the baby’s arrival and this tat is a fabulous way to celebrate it! It’s a mosaic of motifs: a card or photo with the baby’s footprint and birth details, a bracelet with the baby’s name, a watch, and a family photo. True masterpiece I must say!
19. Creative Baby’s Birth Details Tattoo
Another amazingly creative tattoo that looks like a scribble with all the baby’s birth details. This dainty design will inspire moms who like unique and creative tattoos.
20. Portrait Of A Baby With Watch, Flowers, And Heart
A cute baby face coming out of a watch is surrounded by flowers and a stylized heart. This captivating design will surely spark ideas for your own first baby tattoo.
21. Minimalistic Baby Portrait Tattoo
An adorable linework tattoo featuring a little chubby face sleeping is a minimalistic but beautiful piece of ink to celebrate your first baby. It’s amazing how a simple design like this can evoke so much emotion and tenderness, making you feel the warmth every time you look at it.
22. Baby Foot With Birth Details Tattoo
This is an amazing design that starts as a baby foot, with the rest of it transforming into a script in the shape of a foot, showing all the birth details: date, time, weight, name etc. Creative and adorable, new parents will go crazy for this one!