i have been slacking at work with all my appointments and house stuff and still logging my hours. I'm worried and stressed about having to take extended time off for my potential surgery so I can't afford to lose anymore money right now!
Me 33 DH 41 TTC since 2016 Due: October 12, 2018 Location: Ontario, Canada
@chyvie - I’m also struggling with keeping up with my work duties. I’m trying to figure out if I am okay with taking a day off just to be off in the next few weeks. I want to hoard the PTO, but...
Here's one. I think DD is the cutest thing in the world. I'm sure most of it is she's my kid, but I also feel like she's genuinely really cute. I worry about DD2 not being as cute as DD1. That there will be some sort of hurt feelings or competitiveness as they get older. I know its superficial.
Related but possibly a UO, I don't get how every parent thinks their kid is the cutest thing or the most adorable when some really arent.. I know it's so harsh of me to say so. Not every child is cute, not every kid/teen is good looking, it happens.. maybe I'll feel different when my two pop out, we'll find out!!
Ahhh now I don’t feel as bad saying this. I’m worried I’ll have an ugly baby! I know it sounds so shallow and it really won’t matter as long as he’s healthy but I really hope he’s cute! I don’t think I’ll believe he’s cute if he’s not. Like you said @mamabearcj, some kids truly just aren’t. My sister’s is soooo adorable and I don’t want to be jealous. Pic of her in spoiler because it’s too much newborn cuteness not to share
I definitely got a donut this am (I couldn't pass up a Boston Kreme from Dunkin Donuts before I left Boston). I'm also sleeping for the rest of the afternoon now that I'm hime even though I have work to catch up on.
that baby is adorable! Love her little outfit! I wasn't cute as a baby nor was DH so I'm not getting my hopes up HAHAHA DH looked like a fat little Buddha baby
Me 33 DH 41 TTC since 2016 Due: October 12, 2018 Location: Ontario, Canada
My aunt's twins I thought were the ugliest babies, but now they're absolutely adorable. I thought my sister and my brother were the cutest babies ever though.
I worried so much about DD being an ugly baby, I think she turned out pretty freaking cute but deep down I still worry about it being my mom eyes haha! I worry about the same thing with these two.
I think all newborns are pretty weird looking. But most of the time they turn cute pretty quickly. I was SUPER nervous DD wasn't going to be as cute as my niece (who was born 2 weeks before her). Thank goodness DDs the cuter one. Phew.
Always been in the babies look like old man aliens camp. Then I thought I was so lucky DS was a super cute baby. Now I look back at pictures and am like yeah, he looked just a weird as the rest of the babies. Hormones are magical mind altering drugs. Now he’s the most adorable toddler though. We’ll see if I still agree with myself in 10 years.
@mamabearcj You’ll think your kid is beautiful, trust me! I thought Z was the most precious thing in the world. I literally told the nurse “He’s definitely the most beautiful baby ever and I’m not just saying that because he’s mine!” When I look back at his older photos I’m like “Who the f*#% is this funny looking kid? I gave birth to an alien!!!”
So now I always wonder if he’s as cute as I think he is.
^what @krzyriver and @tinattt23 said about baby cuteness... at the time, I thought DS was the cutest thing ever, but now when I look back at photos, I realize how weird and potato-like he looked.
I know that there’s work I should be doing right now at the office, but I seriously have zero motivation, and have been in a funky mood all day because a text from my sister this morning started me off on the wrong foot (read: pregnant lady crying in the bathroom at work). I’m mostly over it now, but I still just want to be home for the weekend already. Monday morning me might regret slacking off, but right now IDGAF.
Haha my DH, mom and I were discussing the ugly baby fear recently. My DH is brutally honest and I’ve been telling him for a while that if we have an ugly baby I don’t ever want to hear him say so. I’m just hoping it is like you all said that you’re blind to the awkwardness and believe yours is the most precious thing in the world. When my mom was in town I asked her what she thought and she confirmed we will think our baby is the cutest like she did, but sometimes she looks back at my baby pics and thinks, “yikes... those cheeks”. Thanks, mom! She did then say that at the time she thought I was so cute she even went to far as to enter me in some baby modeling thing lol.
It’s evolution to think your kid is cute, so you don’t drop them somewhere and run away in the first 5 months. I thought my kid was beautiful and I look back now and ... not so much. She’s a good looking kid now (objectively! People stop me to tell me in stores!) but no, was certainly NOT as a baby.
I think ODD is amazingly beautiful. I don't think it's purely vanity because I literally get stopped every time I leave the house for people to tell me how beautiful or cute she is. But after seeing little monster's ultrasound pics, I'm convinced she's going to be even cuter. But ditto the baby pics. She was a gorgeous newborn but after 1 month old she just looks...weird lmao
Ladybug - April 2013 Dandelion - October 2018 Angel "Aurora" - July 2020 Angel "Sawyer" - May 2021 Angel "Maxine" - January 2022 Angel "Violet" - March 2022 Baby Dove due March 2023
MIL said the same think of her 3rd child, thought he was one of the cutest things!! Now she says he looks like a monkey in most baby pictures lol but DH now He was a cute baby!!! Which gives me hope for our baby bears lol
Here's one. I think DD is the cutest thing in the world. I'm sure most of it is she's my kid, but I also feel like she's genuinely really cute. I worry about DD2 not being as cute as DD1. That there will be some sort of hurt feelings or competitiveness as they get older. I know its superficial.
I had exactly all of those feels when I was pregnant with DD2. I remember being SO worried about it. I was really sure my eldest was objectively the cutest kid in the world (she is a cute kid, but looking back on it some of it was FTM goggles), and I didn’t want to have one daughter who’s obviously prettier than the other. They turned out equally cute, but in different ways. I’m sure yours will be the same
Your baby will be gorgeous to you. Like others said it is the hormones your body and babies body pump out at birth and good to do skin to skin right after delivery if you can as it helps this even more. Oxytocin the love hormone! helps you bond.
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TTC since 2016
Due: October 12, 2018
Location: Ontario, Canada
TTC since 2016
Due: October 12, 2018
Location: Ontario, Canada
TTC since 2016
Due: October 12, 2018
Location: Ontario, Canada
That would be me.
So now I always wonder if he’s as cute as I think he is.
I know that there’s work I should be doing right now at the office, but I seriously have zero motivation, and have been in a funky mood all day because a text from my sister this morning started me off on the wrong foot (read: pregnant lady crying in the bathroom at work). I’m mostly over it now, but I still just want to be home for the weekend already. Monday morning me might regret slacking off, but right now IDGAF.
But ditto the baby pics. She was a gorgeous newborn but after 1 month old she just looks...weird lmao
Dandelion - October 2018
Angel "Aurora" - July 2020
Angel "Sawyer" - May 2021
Angel "Maxine" - January 2022
Angel "Violet" - March 2022
Baby Dove due March 2023