There's only one most beautiful baby in the world and every mother has it. AIBU?

[LaMarschallin]

Two provisos:

1. Although I've used "AIBU" in my title, I've posted in "Chat" because it's really meant to be lighthearted.

2. This is not intended to be a thread about Archie Sussex (although the - rapidly and rightly, imo, taken down - threads about him partly got me thinking about this).

Is there anybody out there who, like me, only finds their own baby/babies "adorable", "gorgeous", "heart-melting" etc?

I can understand why it would be bad form to say a baby looks like, for example, "a howling orange in a wig" (to borrow from Nancy Mitford), so is it just that other people who feel as I do don't comment at all (as I don't) on particular babies in the public eye as it seems unkind/unnecessary?

Or do the majority of people really go gooey over all/most babies?

I never liked baby dolls as a child. Had a Tiny Tears and ended up operating on it with a darning needle to make it wee faster.
Only bit of interest I took in it.
Never found babies other than mine particularly attractive and some smelled really wrong (not dirty nappy, just... well, Not Like My Baby, I suppose).
Obviously, I say the right things to friends and family about their offspring, but am amazed that they're not mortified that their babies are not one millionth as beautiful as mine were.

I know what you're thinking, but I'm a scientific sort of a gel (viz sorting out old Tiny T's bladder above) and obviously I got a second opinion realising I could be awash with hormones and slightly biased.

But no! DH thought they were the most beautiful creatures on god's earth too.
So there.

So, am I a shell of a woman because babies-unless-mine (note to self: best not make that into an acronym) don't make me 😍.

(Haven't used that emoji before. Not sure I will again)

Mine was very cute and elfin-looking at first. He even (briefly) had pointy ears with tiny tufts of hair at the tips, which the midwives went mad over - I wish I'd got a photo of those but they only lasted a few days. He morphed into Phil Mitchell within a couple of months though - thankfully also quite briefly!

Another thing that made me wonder this is the amount of adverts featuring babies/toddlers smearing food over their grinning little faces.

I didn't like it much when my own did it and was constantly dabbing at them with cloths during feeding (I know - their therapy bills are ridiculous these days!) but other babies doing it really makes me feel sick.

Would put me off the product if I were able to watch young smeary-face long enough to find out what the product was (baby food? Washing powder? Kitchen cleaner? Gin? Something must give the parents those delighted smiles they give the infant making the dirty protest...).

But, presumably, these ads must shift the merchandise so lots of people must find it appealing.

Everyone on this thread is unreasonable. My babies are the most wonderful in the world. All others look like Winston Churchill. Sorry (cough not sorry cough).

Some are cute most are strange looking mine was and is the most beautiful baby/toddler in the world but even if she wasn't I would still feel like she was lol

Some babies are gorgeous, others just arent. My first child wasnt a good looking child and I openly admitted it, didn't mean I loved him any less. 2nd child really was a beautiful baby, was commented on by so many people.
It like adults, some are attractive, some aren't!

Look at the scrunched up MIL look in the first photo!! LOOK AT IT!!!!

Now look at his big cheeky smile. My gorgeous boy (this was taken a few years ago now)

Yanbu.

I am not a baby person. I’ve never cooed over a baby, gone gooey, etc over a baby.

Objectively some babies are good looking, even features, look sweet.

My babies however are the most divine little human beings. So completely and utterly gorgeous. Looking back at photos of ds1 he was a complete spud but I thought he was gorgeous.

Ds2 is currently 9 months and I regularly just stare at him because of how beautiful he is. Fully expecting to find him equally spud-like when I look back at him in a few years 😂

I look at other babies and feel literally nothing. I met my nephew the other day and made all the right noises but inside I couldn’t help but think he looks like a very angry and scrawny baby leprechaun

Well I am obviously very very abnormal. I think the vast majority of babies look and smell lovely. Not necessarily immediately as newborns when almost none of them look very nice but by a couple of months old, I have rarely seen one that I don't think is pretty cute . They almost always make me smile when I look at them.

DS was pretty much the same in that I objectively could tell he was a pretty odd looking newborn (very long and skinny) but at a couple of months old he grew into his looks like all babies seem to do. I love DS fiercely but never had that belief that he was the most beautiful baby in the world as it was quite obvious he was not. DH had that belief though (still has) but then DH has zero interest in any children other than his own either so maybe that is related.

I always likes children before I had DS, in fact having DS put me off children a bit generally (including my own occasionally ) as I had too much of them in my every day life. Now I have a teenager, I like smaller kids again,- Toddlers are pretty cute looking as well, particularly at the younger end of toddlerhood when they sort of waddle around. I am not sure I have the energy any more to look after them for long but I find them cute (in small doses and at a reasonable distance obviously)

What I hate is when people actually tell other people how cute and adorable their own children are. My friends have a habit of saying " look how cute he is", "she's just so pretty", "he's just perfect" (all actual examples) about their own children and I can't help but think to myself, you can not actually be serious. I'm surprised I manage to keep my mouth shit sometimes. Oh and I am under no illusions that my children are the most beautiful in the world, however people have always told me that I should have put ds1 in for modeling, ds2 however, not quite.

My son looked like a baby monkey! He was born with a head of thick black hair that stuck up like he had his fingers in a plug socket.
It had to be cut at 4 weeks old!
I didn't know whether to give him milk or a banana!
My daughter just looked like an angry tomato.

DS was beautiful from day one. The kind of blonde, blue eyed baby that people stalk you in shops over. I was constantly hearing people exclaiming “ have you seen that gorgeous Baby!”
He is still positively cherub like at 5.
DD not so much. Maybe it was the baldness ( boys rock the bold better) but I remember saying to DH I was gutted she wasn’t going to be pretty.
Anyway she is beautiful now. Less classically so than her brother. She is more striking and unusual looking. But anyway the point is I was able to be a bit subjective.

Actually thinking about it even the beautiful baby was ugly at about 15 months looking back at pics. I think most are at that stage. When they are a bit fat and have strange hairlines - normally a mullet of some description and a few goofy looking teeth.

I remember hearing the mum in the bed next to me after DC1 was born weeping loudly and her Mum saying
"Don't worry, all newborns are ugly"
at the time I thought smugly that she was wrong because mine was the most beautiful baby ever.
I got my comeuppance when she was about 10 months and used to snarl at old ladies.

I thought that all my four babies were adorable although DC2 has his bounty photos reduced presumably because he looked like an angry squashed plum.

DC4 got loads of comments about his looks, so many people said he was too pretty to be a boy.