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I don't feel like a new mom either - but my son is over 2. I am not sure I realized when that feeling went away! Maybe around a year?? but every stage is "new" and presents with different challenges..

Hmmm... probably by 8 or 9 months. I mean, probably earlier with some things, but we didn't really get into solids until after 7 months, so it wasn't until after we got the swing of that that it felt like we were past a lot of all the big "new" stuff and I didn't feel like a "new mom" anymore!

I think as soon as I started getting into a pattern, doing things without thinking like second nature... Probably around 3 months... Everyday there is a new challenge but I'm pretty sure that will last forever!

I don't remember when the feeling went away. It might have been when I stopped needing extra help- like, now I can grocery shop on my own with her, and not get stressed. Or, I can make normal plans and know that it won't take me an hour to get ready to leave the house.

I'm still a total newbie when it comes to lots of things though! She's only 10 months!

Hmmmm.. A is 12 weeks and I don't feel like a new mom! Probably because my friend has a 1 week old, so I think she is more new! lol

I still feel like one but I am feeling 100% about my parenting abilities and confidence. But there is so much I haven't had to deal with yet.

Like yesterday, texting a friend to ask if R's black poop was from blueberries!

I've started feeling less like a "new mom" as we've gotten more used to doing things/gotten a routine. I still feel like a FTM when things pop up, since I've never dealt with those problems before.
Edit: DS is 9MO

Around 9 months, a lot of anxiety fell away, and now at a year I don't feel like a new mom any more. Anxious? Yes. New challenges? yes. Don't know what I'm doing? Yes. But a new mom? No.

As soon as I think I've got this parenting thing down, the little dude changes things up and knocks me on my butt. Then I feel like a new mom all over again.

I think by about 8 or 9 months I no longer felt like a new mom. I do agree with @looch: about always having to confront new situations though. But I think for me the new mom feeling evokes a lot of panic and self doubt whereas now that my son is older, it's less panic and just how do we deal with this new issue, in a more measured way.

I stopped feeling like a new mom when I had baby #2! Everything came more naturally, and it was a whole different experience than with baby #1. I felt more in control, like I actually knew what I was doing, and I was less fazed about things overall. I just felt like I knew what I was doing, I didn't doubt my decisions, or feel guilty over things that I might've felt guilty about as a FTM.

I think since I had the experience with #1 under my belt, with every new challenge I knew things would turn out okay in the end, and that we would get through it... because I had already seen the light at the end of the tunnel for each phase with #1.