All you baby lovers out there, what you see in advertisements, films might not be the reality. Babies around you might look super cute but the reality is a little different as they don’t enter the world all clean and smiling. Needless to say, the Labor is hard not just for mothers but also for newborns. They are usually swollen, purplish and kind of dirty but they still manage to warm our hearts like anything.
In this blog, we have compiled parents’ first impressions of their newborns. Unlike on screen, It’s a little messy yet incredibly beautiful.
- Hahaha this is me! I looked at my newborn and I was sure he was the most beautiful baby ever. I felt bad that the baby clothes catalogue had to use such plain looking babies when I had (what I thought was) a baby supermodel right there in my arms. When I was pregnant with my second I was worried he couldn’t possibly be as beautiful as his older brother: what a terrible start to life to be in the shadow of the world’s most beautiful baby. Then, the impossible happened, #2 was born and he was somehow even more beautiful! Turns out bonding hormones just hit me extra strong and my babies are just normal-looking squinty, blotchy, wrinkly potatoes like everyone else’s. ©CatastropheWife
- Nobody warns you about the cone heads. Even a cursory heads-up like, “your baby’s head is way squishy and will be weird looking immediately after delivery, but it will be regular baby-head shaped in a couple of hours,” would have been very helpful. ©skelebone
- Exactly this. My son’s eyes couldn’t even move together in the same direction when he was 5 min old. I didn’t see it and didn’t care, though. Now he’s a super cute little boy—people say it often so it’s not parental bias—but like almost every other newborn, he looked pretty weird at first. ©garibaldi18
- My dad’s first words to my mom post-delivery were, “That is the ugliest baby I’ve ever seen.” And of course, she busted out sobbing. Of course, I was born in ’68 and fathers weren’t allowed in then. And my mom pushed a long time so I was born with a cone shaped head. Mom said it came to a perfect point on top. Haha! ©rebel1031
- It’s a long running joke that my 21-year-old son was an ugly baby. It even got worse as he had the nastiest baby acne I had ever seen. He is now a handsome young man in college so he never takes the joke seriously. As he was my first child, my reaction was to ask my wife if all babies looked this way when born and hope it would improve. He did. Just took a bit longer than I assumed. ©Wha_She_Said_Is_Nuts
- My mother maintains that I was the ugliest baby she’s ever seen to this day. I was premature, skinny, and oddly long. There are very few pictures of my infancy around my parents’ house — lots of my sister, as she was the quintessential adorably chubby baby. ©Foxtrottings
- Newborn babies are really ugly because their face is squished by going through the birth canal. They’re often a bit too red or a bit too grey, and also smeared with all kinds of fluids (but at least they bathe them). They need about an hour to start resembling a little human. My first daughter was born underweight so her face looked like a little alien, no puffy cheeks. My second daughter was carried a bit over term so her face was red and irritated (they lose the greasy protection when procrastinating). My youngest son was born legs first so his face actually wasn’t as squished, he could be considered cute from the start, except he was born with dark hair not only on his head, but also on his earlobes, nape, and shoulders, so my first thought was, “Geez, I gave birth to a werewolf.” ©cototudelam
- I had a C-section, so she was covered in goop. Before they took her to weigh and do those things, they brought her over and said, “Kiss your baby!”. I looked at all the goop on this kid and was hesitant, but my husband and all the doctors and nurses were all very excited so I did. It was gross. They all cheered after I kissed her, thankfully the noise cover up the sound of me gagging and spitting. Gross. ©Suepr80
- I did the same. My baby was 9 weeks early, I legitimately couldn’t see that he was skinny and “unfinished,” I just wondered how everyone else wasn’t embarrassed about their ordinary babies when mine was so fantastic. Looking back at the photos, I can see what people meant. He wasn’t cooked yet. I still think my kid is the best, though. ? ©Captain_Quoll
- My family has large heads. My wife’s family has small women. My children very much took advantage of the softness of their skulls. The first child was squeezed so bad that her head was completely elongated and when she was first put into my wife’s arms, she was like lavender purple. Totally looked like an alien or something. After the first independent breath her color went back to normal pretty fast, and her head got back to the right shape after about 2 days. Lemme tell you — those weird caps for babies in hospitals? NOT just for baby warmth. Also cause weird heads. My second was a lot more “normal” looking, but still not completely. Mostly just the misshapen head. ©superkp
In the comment section, share your experience with your baby, when you first saw them.