What's great about newborns?

New borns my god where do you start .

For me the way the just sleep on you . Snuggle in and they are sparko.
It's crazy how if you hold someone else new born you never feel really comfortable . Your own baby you don't have that they become like a long lost limb .
The smell the hair. The warmth :-)
It's so bloody amazing yes nights might not be lil they were but it's so worth it .
All the best and enjoy. I'd do both of mine again in a heartbeat x

And yep poo smells lovely!!!

For me it was 'the look'.... can't remember exact age with either baby but it was they way they looked at me with such love and trust and adoration. Wasn't immediately after birth but they weren't very old. They were a few weeks if that???

Their smell,l honest reactions, tiny hands holding your finger.. Funny sleeping sounds. Their smile when they see you...
All of these things & more really make up for lack of sleep.
Embrace it all, because it's so true time moves fast.

This

I held anew born recently and it reminded me that it is just amazing. Reading this makes me so broody again (and I definitely can't have more babies)
Enjoy every minute

They smell fantastic.

Their poo smells nice.

They are no longer inside your uterus, stopping you from doing handy stuff like breathing and eating and weighing you down all the time.

They make cute snuffly noises.

Passers-by smile when they see them (and gave me discounts in shops for some reason).

You can put them in grobags.

Tiny, milk-drunk faces.

They are really quite light to carry.

Their skin is unfeasably soft, especially on their teeny little bottoms.

It's my non sleeping 22 month old that stops me from going for number 3 happypotamus. But it's very tempting.

I took a tiny video during dd2's first night when she had the hiccups. They were the cutest, tiniest, squeakiest mouse hiccups you ever heard. It's dd2's most watched video, she loves hearing herself (she's 4) and it makes my heart go all melty.

Nothing. They are boring. They cry incessantly and shit themselves. They can't talk to you or do anything. They have big scary floppy heads which loll about.

Give me teens any day!

Aaahh, this thread is making me broody for a tiny, squishy, snuggled up newborn with a velvety soft head. This feeling will last probably a couple of hours until the 21 month old non-sleeping wonderchild wakes up to moan and feed for a couple of hours then scream 'daddy, daddy' for a bit before finally falling asleep just before I have to get up for work. At least when a newborn keeps you awake half the night you don't have to go to work the next day.

Their backs are all soft and downy when you stroke them. They curl up like a little tree frog and sleep peacefully on you. And that feeling when you first see them. And the smell.

God I'm broody.

The soft skin and hair.
The milk-drunk face.
Their needs are so simple (if relentless and repetitive!)
The little cooing noise they make as their earliest talking.

34w pregnant with DS2, this thread is so lovely!

Agree with everything so far, also wanted to add how they change every day and every tiny little development is so exciting. Like when they hold their head up far more than any newborn should at their age of course or follow an object with their eyes.

And the first smile... Oh my goodness.

Smell.
Grunty noises they make

And the fact you're so bloody tired but in the dark of the night when you soooo want to sleep, you look at the little one and think "all mine".

Sadly OP I hate the newborn phase. However DD was a refluxing, colicky, non sleeping screamer and it nearly killed me.

By 12 weeks she was my best friend!

The way they try and suckle your jawbone when you rub your face against them, the teeny fingers, the teeny bum cheeks and bandy legs, the feel of their fuzzy heads against your lips, being on maternity leave.

I hate kids but I love newborns . (I'm only joking, I don't really hate kids well not all of them).

Newborns are just gorgeous and snuggly. I love the way they're all curled up. I love their little furry heads, like baby monkeys, and I loved the fact that my newborns had tiny hairy tufts on the tops of their ears, like little Werewolves! It disappeared after a few weeks, thank god - however cute on a newborn it's not cute when they're 10!

Seeing the oldest sibling's face light up when they see the baby for the first time. My oldest was 3 nearly 4 when her sister was born and she was smitten. Just thinking about it is making me well up now! She was the proudest big sister.

They're still best mates now and they're 5 and 9.

Seeing the toddler growing to love the newborn and (after a couple of months) when the toddler makes the baby smile. Magic.

Furry hobbity ears. The way their tongues quiver when they yawn.

The fact that you are their whole world. All they want is you. Your warmth, your comfort, your milk, your voice.

Don't really like newborns but there are lovely bits. Much prefer 12-18 month age where they have personality but don't tantrum.

Mine slept all the time and hardly ever cried. He was lovely to have around - we could take him anywhere.

He's 5 months now and much harder. 12 weeks onwards was when it got a lot more difficult for me!

I love the Carl Sandburg's words- 'a baby is God's opinion that the world should go on', that essentially nothing ever created/invented/made will come close to how the awesomeness of a newborn. I didn't really appreciate it with my first but the ones that followed I have treasured. You just wake up one day and they aren't a newborn any more.

All of the above and how their skin is so soft.

The first smile (especially when it's directed at you)
The totally uncoordinated and random movements they make
The snoozy sleepy cuddles in the night- makes the half asleep feeds so worthwhile

The thing I like most about newborns though, is how no matter how you picture them when you are pregnant your imagination never stretches to even come close. That they are a person beyond anything you can comprehend. It is just so awesome every time you learn something new about their personality or see them in a new way. Never stops giving me pangs in my chest and my DD is a strapping great toddler already!