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

[IDoDis]

DD was a scheduled c-section baby so she never made it to the birth canal. I thought she was beautiful -- all pink and not all squished up.

DS was a VBAC. When I first saw him I had this look He was a big hairy baby! He had thick dark hair all over his back, a thick head of dark black hair on a big cone head, squished-up eyes, and a big flat nose. He really looked quite ape-ish. It took me a few days to bond with him. He'd just scream and look even worse. I'd sing real loud "Getting to know you! I'm getting to know you" real loud to drown out his wails.

The nurse at the hospital kept telling me he was the cutest baby there at the time. I thought she was just feeling sorry for me for having an ugly baby so she was trying to make me feel better. Well, he got cuter and cuter as the weeks passed, and turned into one of the cutest babies ever! Maybe that nurse saw something that I didn't.

 

[luvflorida]

I had blinders on but I thought he was cute from the start, once they covered his head up! He was a STRONG conehead!!

So he was a little yellow but I don't think he had any of the "common" newborn look to him ... Either way ...

Your little boy certainly is cute and was cute as a newborn, too!

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.

My son looked like a splotchy fish and DD was so weird looking that I refused to have professional pictures taken of her in the hospital!

We actually mentally prepared ourselves for a "not cute" baby.

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."

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.

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 am laughing out loud at some of the posted comments! So loud that I scared the cat and he left the room in a hurry!. Rarely do parents speak so honestly!

Now (honestly!) I thought all three of my babies really were beautiful. They were all C-sections, so they had perfectly shaped little heads. They all had just enough hair to cover their heads so that they didn't look bald. I can clearly remember the particular feature that stood out to me the first time I saw each baby. #1- I though his hair looked just like it had been drawn on with a pencil. It was like little short strokes all over his head. #2- My first thought was that she looked exactly like my first born did when he was born. #3- She was making little grimaces and I noticed that she had beautiful deep dimples on each side of her tiny face.

I saw my grandson when he was about thirty minutes old, and the first thing I noticed was the size of his eyes (very big, beautiful eyes). Well that, and the fact that I thought he was the cutest baby I had ever seen! No Gramma bias here!

 

[madcam]

I thought my first daughter was beautiful (if not a little hairy) until I saw her hospital pics. But she prettied up fairly quickly and has always been a very beautiful child. My second daughter was actually the better looking newborn. Except she was large.....not the size of what I thought a newborn would be (and at 8lbs 8oz, only 1 pound bigger than her older sister had been. Who knew that pound would make such a difference?) and she had freakishly large hands. I swear, she is 4 yrs old now and her hands are not much bigger than the day she was born (they are however in porportion to her size now)!!! She is quite the cutie herself. I am biased but also accurate!!!

 

[livie1205]

my dd3 was pretty when shwe was born....the dr said he thought she was the prettest thing he had seen in a long time.She had big blue eyes and dark curly hair and not a wrinkle on her!now.....the other kids.....wrinkly little buggers lol

 

[Tikitoi]

No. As a matter of fact for both of my kids, someone said to me that babies usually are ugly but that neither of mine were.

 

[MiniGirl]

This is such a fun thread.

My oldest was beautiful. She truly looked like a Gerber baby. Everyone, even total strangers, were drawn to her and would, out of the blue, give us gifts for her. Strangers would come up to us and ask us if they could hold her.

My youngest was not. Poor thing. People would look at her and pause, trying to think of what to say. Usually, something like... "What a, um......, sweet baby you have." or "Oh, my... look at that hair." (Think Billy Ray Cyrus style mullet from his early years.) At about 9 months or so, she started to change and now she is really pretty. I friend told me a few months ago, "You know.... J is not cute like most girls her age. She is really very pretty."