Did you think your baby was ugly (at first)?

[golfgal]

Our oldest was very cute from the get go, DD was not very attractive, DS13 was also cute right away. Some babies are cute right away, some are not.

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

When they delivered DS, he started hollering right away and I told him to go ahead and get *beep*ed. When he was sort of cleaned up and they were finished poking him, etc they brought him over and I said to DH, "Holy CRAP this kid's got a lot of hair!". He almost needed a haircut he had so much hair. It was very, very dark..almost black and fine as duck down. No matter how much we wet it down, it always sprang right back up as soon as it dried. I nicknamed him Harry Potter head.

 

[clgwli]

We actually mentally prepared ourselves for a "not cute" baby. We were blessed with a family that was always very adorable to us. We might have been "blinded by love" but that is how we felt

 

[Plantlady]

I was young when my oldest was born, a bit self centered.. ect.

Anyway, it was a rough delivery. I saw him for the first time about 8 hours after he was born, and my first thought "YES! He's cute, and not an ugly baby!"

My other two were adorable as well.

It did help, they were all born via c-section. No cone shaped heads.

 

[Laura]

My kid's not born yet, but I looked like the Frankenbaby from Mars when I was born. My head was all squished up and I looked like I had a huge nose. I got cuter later.

 

[chobie]

My first, my DD was beautiful from the start -- c-section so no smashed/mishapen face or head. My son was a c-section too, but they had to use a suction cup to get his head out of my pelvis and so his forehead was one big purple bruise. Then he looked like Buddy Hackett for a few months -- we called him "shapoopie" for a while.

 

[paintnolish]

My daughter had a big, bald head. She had it for a long time, too. She was bald until at least 1 1/2. I could barely put those velcro barrets in her hair. My cousins (who were around 10 at the time) called her "Margie the Largie Head." Clever. Her name's not anywhere close to MArgie. Anyway, she finely grew lots of lovely hair to cover up her melon. I know where she got it, though. Hats are really tight on me!

 

[MushyMushy]

My oldest was pretty cute. He was a big, full baby and a bit overdue, so he looked a couple of weeks old. Plus I'd had a c-section, so his head was perfect.

DD had a perfect head too, but she was much smaller than my DS. I didn't think she was gorgeous until a few weeks had passed and she filled out.

 

[MelanieC]

Both of my babies were very cute - my daughter looked like a cupie doll. My son was cute, but didn't have the same cupie doll face.

 

[Stacerita]

My DD was very pretty at birth. A nurse even commented and said she should get the "pretty baby award". Most babies aren't though. My mother said I looked like a drowned rat and that my brother looked like his head was shapped like a football. My nephews weren't that cute either.

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

My kid's not born yet, but I looked like the Frankenbaby from Mars when I was born. My head was all squished up and I looked like I had a huge nose. I got cuter later.

I was a Frankenbaby too..I had a giant noggin which was too big for my mom's pelvis and I was turned weird so every time she had a contraction, my head got smooshed into her hipbone. She said I came out with a bunch of big bumps on my head like somebody had been hitting me on the head with a baseball bat.

 

[luvmy3]

All 3 of mine were beautiful when they were born, at least to me anyway. They all had perfect round heads and sweet little faces. All of them had eyelashes a mile long, bald heads and dd's nose was a little smushed but they were absolutley perfect. Of course I may be a bit biased.

 

[Rebelmom67]

All 3 of mine were beautiful when they were born, at least to me anyway. They all had perfect round heads and sweet little faces. All of them had eyelashes a mile long, bald heads and dd's nose was a little smushed but they were absolutley perfect. Of course I may be a bit biased.

Nonsense, not biased at all. They sound like my babies - born gorgeous and will grow up to be gorgeous. We have mighty nice genes. I'm not biased at all......not at all!!

 

[NLK]

DD was beautiful! We even called people and told them how beautiful she was. DS not so much. Definitely old man.

 

[tevagirl]

I was 20 yrs old and naive when my first child was born. Since my older sister never had children, my mother had waited a long time for her first grandchild. She saw my daughter before I did (this was in the early 70's, they knocked me out during delivery) and told me, before I actually got to see her, that she was the most beautiful baby she had ever seen.

So I couldn't wait till the nurse brought my beautiful 'Gerber' baby in to me.

The nurse came in and handed her to me. She was red and blotchy, had a scratch in the middle of her forehead from her strangely and disturbingly long fingernails, and her head could have drilled holes it was so pointed.

I thought 'No way is this my baby'.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

When I pulled the 8X10 newborn pic out of the envelope, I actually jumped back, and I sent it back to the company.

They pretty much all look like Winston Churchill to me--baldish, big jowls, no chin, my own kids included. My niece was the ugliest baby ever--old Winston would have been a huge improvement. She was the spitting image of Snuffy Smith.

My son was a c-section too, but they had to use a suction cup to get his head out of my pelvis and so his forehead was one big purple bruise. Then he looked like Buddy Hackett for a few months -- we called him "shapoopie" for a while.

This is one of the funniest threads I've read in awhile!

Yes, even though my sons were delivered via c-section, they looked... I don't know, kinda lumpy. Puffy eyelids, puffy lips, puffy... ummm, other stuff. ANYWAY! They got much cuter by the next day.

DH and I used to laugh when new parents coo'ed about how their baby was the cutest baby they'd ever seen. One night we were watching TV while our maybe 2-month-old baby nursed in my arms. DH said, "Don't you think he's the cutest baby you've ever seen?" I chuckled, assuming he was mocking parents of newborns, and he said, "No, seriously. He IS the cutest baby ever! Don't you think so?" He was dead serious!

I think all babies are adorable, I love babies. I've only ever seen one that I thought was truly unattractive, but he also had the biggest smile and sunniest personality that I fell in love with him, too.

 

[hegsag]

My dd was gorgeous from the get go (she looked exactly like my dh - exactly), my ds not so much.

 

[Sonya]

My daughter was born by c-section and really was beautiful when she was born. However, two things:

1. The absolute first thought I had when I looked across the room and saw my daughter for the very first time was "wow, look at the size of her mouth!! It takes up half her head!!" LOL.

2. I had never seen a newborn baby butt and for a long time, until she added weight onto her body, I was convinced she had a birth defect and was actually pretty upset for her. I thought she would always have a crack half way up her back. I didn't realize it was her butt crack in the making and she just didn't have any meat on her bones yet. Thank goodness she has a perfectly normal butt now (not that I've seen it in a few years).

Yeah, the butt thing really surprised me. I had never seen a newborn but from watching large amounts of "A baby story" I figured my kids would be pretty scary at first. I never got to see any of them right away, c-sections take so much time! (I asked the Dr if I was getting a tummy tuck too since it took so long to sew me back up!)
Anyway, DS was OK, I thought him so beautiful. The girls were so small they had no fat at all (3 pounders) and they looked like little monkeys. DMIL got mad b/c we called Kate that! And when I would go to change them after a poopy diaper, I really wondered where the butt was!

 

[MomofKatie]

I always thought DD was beautiful, right from day 1. And others have always commented on her cute face and nicely shaped head (something you definitely notice on babies!), BUT a lot of people thought her little body was unattractive. DD has always been very petite, and she was never at all chubby- in fact, she was pretty scrawny as a brand-new baby. Many folks who think only fat, chubby babies are cute thought she was weird-looking.

When DD was only 4 or 5 days old, I took her out in her little pumpkin seat, and a lady actually gasped and cringed when she saw her. She yelled out, "OMG! How old is that poor thing!? Should she be out in public yet?" DD was slightly under 6lbs at the time and was pretty skinny. Thank goodness I had a sense of humor about it, or she probably would have made me cry, yelling about my baby that way!

 

[aprilgail2]

I think c-section babies are cute but ******l birth babies look pretty bad- the pointy cone heads and faces that have been all smushed and mashed up being push out