Newborn babies

PizzamanIRL · 29-08-2013 01:45PM #1

I don't see how people find them beautiful etc. I just shuddered when I saw a photo there now and people saying how gorgeous he is when he looks like a wrinkly ball sack.

Are you being genuine when you say it or are you saying it just to go along with the happy mood of the birth of a baby?

No offence to all you little babies out there

lukesmom · 29-08-2013 01:47PM

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

I don't see how people find them beautiful etc. I just shuddered when I saw a photo there now and people saying how gorgeous he is when he looks like a wrinkly ball sack.

Are you being genuine when you say it or are you saying it just to go along with the happy mood of the birth of a baby?

No offence to all you little babies out there

Saying it just to go along with happy mood of birth

sbsquarepants · 29-08-2013 01:47PM

They all look like aliens. People just say they're gorgeous cos it's not polite to say it looks like a scrotum with eyes!

DublinArnie · 29-08-2013 01:47PM

Who agress OP should never have children?

krudler · 29-08-2013 01:48PM

Babies aren't really cute until a few months, newborns are weird looking. some babies are ugly, there I said it.

Toots · 29-08-2013 01:50PM

I think newborns are beautiful! They're so sweet and helpless. How could you think newborns are ugly???

mel1 · 29-08-2013 01:52PM

Have 3 of my own, I always thought mine were beautiful, which is probably all you can think after spending almost 10 long months creating something. But I would still have to agree with above that I have never seen other newborns as cute until they are a few weeks old, yes they all look like little aliens.

anncoates · 29-08-2013 01:52PM

Not being a teenager, I don't feel that I'm betraying my deep principles of verisimilitude by not admitting to my friends that most newborn babies look like they've been hit with a baseball bat.

mikom · 29-08-2013 01:54PM

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

I don't see how people find them beautiful etc. I just shuddered when I saw a photo there now and people saying how gorgeous he is when he looks like a wrinkly ball sack.

Are you being genuine when you say it or are you saying it just to go along with the happy mood of the birth of a baby?

No offence to all you little babies out there

You won't throw us off the scent that easily, Rolf.

Tom M · 29-08-2013 01:54PM

Considering where they've spent the previous nine months they don't look too bad.

Stark · 29-08-2013 01:55PM

Aww, he looks just like his father with his compressed skull, wispy hair, toothless gums and swollen jaw muscles.

BeerWolf · 29-08-2013 01:55PM

Newborn animals [e.g. - Puppies and kittens, foals, etc.] are generally cute.

HUMANS on the other hand...

krudler · 29-08-2013 01:56PM

Toots* wrote: »

I think newborns are beautiful! They're so sweet and helpless. How could you think newborns are ugly???

So are old people, which newborns look like miniature versions of.

Cody Pomeray · 29-08-2013 01:58PM

"Gorgeous"/ "a dote" is more a reference to their tinyness/ vulnerability and the excitement about their arrival. It's not about their actual 'looks', imo.

Banjo String · 29-08-2013 01:58PM

What's the difference in a baby girl and a baby boy?

One sits on its ass and cries, the other sits on its ass and bawls.

Wacker The Attacker · 29-08-2013 01:58PM

DublinArnie wrote: »

Who agress OP should never have children?

Especially if the child is theirs

anncoates · 29-08-2013 01:59PM

They had to use a ventouse and a forceps on my first son so his head was actually conical looking (with a big red ring mark on it) when he came out.

I remember abstractly thinking it would have been quite funny if I wasn't shitting it so much.

20Cent · 29-08-2013 02:00PM

They look like aliens for the first ten minutes or so covered in goo, swollen face and purple. After a while while they turn the proper colour and are cute then. As a parent of course they are the most beautiful thing you'll ever see

Toots · 29-08-2013 02:04PM

krudler wrote: »

So are old people, which newborns look like miniature versions of.

Some old people are sweet and helpless and they're lovely. Even the ones that aren't helpless

Unfortunately I've come across many old people who are evil wizened bigots. They're not so nice.

kylith · 29-08-2013 02:05PM

Objectively they're weird looking. Subjectively:Look at their teeny fingers!

PizzamanIRL · 29-08-2013 02:08PM

DublinArnie wrote: »

Who agress OP should never have children?

Because I think newborns aren't beautiful. Yep, good conclusion Arnie.

kylith · 29-08-2013 02:08PM

BeerWolf wrote: »

Newborn animals [e.g. - Puppies and kittens, foals, etc.] are generally cute.

HUMANS on the other hand...

Newborn puppies and kittens look like hairy slugs.

Muise... · 29-08-2013 02:14PM

kylith wrote: »

Newborn puppies and kittens look like hairy slugs.

prey animals are more fully-formed at birth, so they can leg it from danger immediately. Predators like us are born like useless, cranky, hairy slugs. Though babies born by c-section tend to be a bit less wrinkly, probably because they haven't been squished through a flange. That said, I don't mind what they look like; it's the noise of them that's ugly.

SEPT 23 1989 · 29-08-2013 02:16PM

All my babies were beautiful

jimgoose · 29-08-2013 02:27PM

They look like oddly-mobile prunes (wouldn't that be a just wonderful name for a rock band??

) just after birth. After a while, when they get a good yowl on and start to get a bit of blood moving they basically look like Winston Churchill for the next six months or so. It's hard to say which is weirder. After that it's just about possible to see them as small people. They're great, though - after all, we're hard-wired to think so. :cool:

krudler · 29-08-2013 02:28PM

Toots* wrote: »

Some old people are sweet and helpless and they're lovely. Even the ones that aren't helpless Unfortunately I've come across many old people who are evil wizened bigots. They're not so nice.

Oh yeah, I'm convinced there's a knob card that old people get once they hit a certain age that makes them think they can just be sour old fcuks to everyone, old women are the worst

Muise... · 29-08-2013 02:40PM

krudler wrote: »

Oh yeah, I'm convinced there's a knob card that old people get once they hit a certain age that makes them think they can just be sour old fcuks to everyone, old women are the worst

it's probably just wind.

vitani · 29-08-2013 02:44PM

Some newborns are genuinely beautiful. Some aren't. But I still 'aww' over them because they're so teeny tiny and helpless.

My own looked like an alien. They don't tell you that babies' facial features can often be a bit swollen at first. Once her face went down, and she turned into a normal colour (she had jaundice) she was beautiful. Ish.

gobnaitolunacy · 29-08-2013 02:51PM

kylith wrote: »

Newborn puppies and kittens look like hairy slugs.

At least it doesn't take months for them to walk and feed themselves. Humans are kinda crap that way.

jimgoose · 29-08-2013 02:52PM

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

At least it doesn't take months for them to walk and feed themselves. Humans are kinda crap that way.

Humans have huge brains that need to develop and learn. Takes time and energy.

Sarky · 29-08-2013 02:54PM

Tiny little Winston Churchills. I have to fight the urge to slip a cigar into one wee hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

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