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Babies: 9 - 12 Months
be honest... what did you think of LO when you FIRST saw him/her?
To be completely honest I thought he looked a little E.T.-ish and hoped he didnt have bags under his eyes forever.
I never liked babies. I never wanted to hold them or watch them... I never really thought any were cute. I wasnt surprised that the first thought that popped in my head was "omg hes beautiful" It took him gaining like 3lbs for me to start saying "hes so cute"
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Re: be honest... what did you think of LO when you FIRST saw him/her?
This for me too. I just melted and fell completely in love.
"THAT'S who has been in there this wole thime!? This is the craziest thing I have ever done, and the most amazing."
I guess the whole having a baby thing didnt fully hit me until I saw her.
my whole birthing experience, from my water breaking to both babies being born, was only 4 hours. It was early and unexpected...so honestly, when i heard them both crying in the delivery room, my first thought was, "crap, these are mine?"
Don't feel bad. My son was six and a half weeks premature and I loved him so much and was so relieved he was doing well. That being said, I definitely didn't think he was super cute at that point (of course, now I do). So, you're not alone.
I went "holy shiit she is huge"
no joke, I was so out of it. C section after 26 hours of pitocin and back labor. I was toast.
My thoughts went in this order:
"OMG! I was right! It is a boy!"
"He's so cute"
"holy shiit, they're tucking my organs back into my abdomen and i can feel it"
As they pulled him out of me and he came into view, these were the EXACT words out of my mouth:
"OH MY GOD! Look at his conehead!" Everybody in the room kind of chuckles. "We need to go buy more hats!"
So yeah, I wasn't super impressed with his looks haha.
DD wasn't cute when she was born. Her nose was completely smushed to one side from the way she was stuck in utero and she had major cranial molding and a conehead like you wouldn't believe.
It was well over a month before I thought she was really cute. Now.... I think she's adorable.
It just occurred to me how amazingly insensitive my reply was - I'm sorry!
I don't understand how it was insensitive.
Why do you think you were being insensitive? I don't see anything insensitive about your comment.
Honestly? I didn't think she was cute at all for the first 6 weeks or so. Once she started to fatten up just a little, she really started to get a whole lot cuter. She came out after 2 hours of pushing with a major (as in, added 2 inches to her length) cone head and her nose was squished to one side and one ear was folded down because she had a huge fluid pocket in her head on her right side.
I loved her all the same, though. Her ear is still a little more "out there" than the other, and her nose will always be a tiny bit crooked, I think (mine is too), but she's beautiful. I say over and over, "you know, I know all moms say this, but I really think she just IS that cute....you know?"
These were my first thoughts when I saw DS. But I couldn't see the resemblance to me or my DH in DS I knew it was our baby, but at the same didn't didn't really recognize him. So I kept starring at this person who I felt I knew but who also felt like a complete stranger to me. It was weird.
I believe my first words when I saw his face were "Oh, he's cute!" And he was lol. I was worried that he wasn't going to be, but he was really cute fresh from the oven.
Proof:
I had a c-sect, so when they held her up over the screen, i first couldn't make out exactly what i was looking at..and before i could recognize anything, the doc quickly put her down so she could be taken in the other room.
but then when i finally got to hold her, she reminded me of a cabbage patch doll- a perfectly round head..and HUGE cheeks!! i thought she was gorgeous!
With DS1, I thought he was cute right from the get go and he had red hair just like DH.
With DS2, he had tons of dark hair, and at first his coloring was off and he had a really scrunchy face, which I should have expected because he looked EXACTLY like a 4D ultrasound we had at 32 weeks or so. Anyway, I would say adorable right out of the oven so to speak but definitely cute by the time we left the hospital.
"How the heck did they both fit in me? Do they look identical?" And then I closed my eyes because I was shaking so badly from the drugs/nausea.
They were almost 13lbs and 36.5 inches combined. I'm 5'3.
I didn't really get a chance to see DD before they took her away (she ingested the meconium and needed a respiratory nurse) but when they brought her back I just cried. She was awesome - and looked identical to my DH.
She was also wearing a hat and when I took it off I thought holy geez look at that CONE HEAD! Then I realized this is WHY babies wear hats when they are just born, lol.