Okay. I have a bad habit of wearing my heart on my sleeve face. Although I may try to say kind words, my expression will read something else entirely.
So, if there was a delayed response between you revealing your new offspring to me and the smile on my face, it was because I was trying to find something nice to say.
Not all babies are cute.
There. I said it. Yes, I know I'm probably going to go to hell for that.
Posted by Tiffany at April 12, 2005 08:07 PMDid you used to watch Seinfeld? Gotta go "SEE the baby"... the ugly baby. Yes, some babies are only cute to their families. It's not just you. Don't feel bad.
Posted by: Momotrips at April 12, 2005 08:44 PMAll 3 of mine were lizard looking. I made the mistake of telling my future Ex wife at the time... I said "Hey! Our baby looks like a lizard" and I made Lizard like sounds and stuck my tongue out and all that.
The next two I stayed really quiet over. But I did stick my tongue out at them (so they would feel at home).
One of mine looked just like one of those orange-haired troll dolls when he was a baby. He's a handsome, photogenic 1st grader, now, but at 4lbs 2 oz he was a little "iffy" looking. The second looked just like my dad, bald and all. That is if my dad weighed 4 pounds and screamed for 16 hours a day. The third was beautiful from the first minute. He's still pretty. They're all good looking kids.
What boggles me is how perfectly average looking people can have beautiful kids. I mean, my husband and I are attractive people, but we're not natural beauties by any means. Then there are the "beautiful" people that have hideous little Shar Pei looking kids. Genetics are a crap shoot, my friend.
Posted by: Momotrips at April 12, 2005 10:43 PMIt is true... some babies are pretty wrinkly when they first drop out of the chute. Not this one, though!
( /blatant nephew plug )
Posted by: El Capitan at April 13, 2005 12:09 AMI used to refer to the Pediatric Waiting Room as the Ugly Baby Parade and/or Darwin's Waiting Room. Whew! Some babies are hard on the eyes.
Posted by: Nanc' at April 13, 2005 09:33 AMThey all look alike in the beginning, too. Little red wrinkly Jabba the Hutts.
Posted by: Amanda at April 13, 2005 03:10 PMMost babies who emerge through that PlayDoh Fun Factory of birth look like sunburnt prunes, smell like toe fungus and poop, and sound like scalded cats. There's something in the birthing process that renders the mother deaf, noseless, and blind.
Then there is a brief window of adorable cuddly Anne Geddes baby before it becomes That Little Brat.
There's some sort of biological reason, I'm sure, other than the hopes of keeping the species alive, that they repulse all but their closest kin.
Maybe back in cannibal days they discovered they taste better as they age.