What's great about newborns?

There is nothing nicer than a tiny baby drifting off to sleep in your arms. They just relax and they're so content and comfortable, it's lovely to sit with them and have a cup of tea.

Also if the baby like baths (and a lot of them do) putting them in and having them react and splash around for a while, then getting them all nice and dry and snuggly in a babygro afterwards, smelling lovely.

Very sad trembly bottom lip - then a huge smile when comforted !

Ahhh I love this thread - my ovaries are melting here reading it!

The way you are their entire world. Their teeny tiny everything. Their smell, and their little sleepy snuffles. Little baby gros. The soft velvety skin. Their tiniest fingernails...

The way you fall in love like never before...

Thank you 'muchly' for the lovely thread- more of these please

The way they are so tiny and yet so powerful - tiny, kicking legs, rooting for milk, gripping your fingers in their miniature hands.

Putting them in a sling and hugging them close to you wherever you go.

Hearing people whisper as you go past, "Oh, look at the tiny baby!"

Random strangers congratulating you in the street.

Bath time.

If I could bottle baby breathe I sure would. It speaks volumes- the innocence, the love, the purity - everything.

KakunaMatata.

Toes

Ohhh Spacefrog, I need to squeeze those knees...

Pnd robbed me of all these lovely things.

ah now spacefrog that is not a newborn, god I love those chubby thighs and the screw on hands.

best thing about newborns is definatley the smell of their heads and breast milk breath

Knees chubby adorable knees 😍

Crying at how beautiful this thread is.

I love their feet.

I'm all broody now and DS isn't even 1 yet.

They're so soft and tiny. Their favorite thing to do is just curl up on you and all I wanted to do when DS was newborn was cuddle him back.

You're not pregnant anymore but it still feels like they're part of you and you know that they feel the same. There's a connection that I really can't describe.

Before they can consciously make facial expressions, they make the cutest and funniest ones subconsciously as they're waking up.

You know that they're not going to be you're tiny baby for long but I looked forward to DS changing despite knowing that I'd miss those early days.

Oh, and the nappies are so much easier before weaning.

Yy to velvety heads and the addictive baby head smell. they are addictive: you get a hormonal hit off cuddling them (i read a book about it!) and their head smell is actually addictive.

oh dear, feeling broody

Their cute squishy saggy little 'old man' bums before they fully grow into their skin a bit more. 😂

And the creases. Oh the creases! 😍

Newborn baby toes, I love 'em!

Aw, this thread is making me really want a newborn to cuddle. That shop is firmly shut for me so I'll never have my own again, I only want a newborn though, children are hard work - I'd happily have a baby for 4 weeks and then give it back. One of my good friends is pregnant - I wonder if she'll lend me her baby until it's about 5 weeks old? Her older child is really cute too so this ones bound to be adorable which is a bonus!

The soft wrinkly downy head, just like a puppy's.

The way they bounce their face against yours when you go in for kisses (and they just want milk).

The way they respond to your conversation by waving their arms and legs about.

The accidental smiles and giggles when they sleep.

The way their lips pucker up when they're asleep (and you get an occasional glimpse of a gum!)

The way they sometimes carry on suckling after unlatching, and make cute little noises in the back of their throat.

The way they fall into your arms without any resistance whatsoever.

The way the newborn sleepsuits only have feet in them rather than legs, because their legs are always curled up.

When they start stretching their legs out and you see all the little creases and wrinkles.

I could go on.... I can't believe how much my four month old had changed already.

I have never been keen on new borns, and only have difficult memories of DS1, but I can say laying here with my 2day old DS2 resting on my chest, he is amazing! The lack of control over his body, the little squeaks, the smell, the warm softness, the fact he is changing and learning every day. I love him!

Oh, and how they have no control over their limbs. DS would be sleeping peacefully and all of a sudden his arm would shoot up in the air for no reason.

Trembly lips

The way they pull faces when they're asleep, you wonder what they're dreaming about.

When they're very little, the way they do a woodpecker thing with their heads when they're hungry and looking for milk.

The funny facial expressions

The fact they are little creatures - little frog legs etc

Their soft soft skin

Their damp hair

When they burp it makes you cheer