to think other peoples babies are ugly

[Ryoko]

I'd say that 95% of babies are ugly, I look at them in the street and think my god look at those ears, the head of that one is a perfect square shape, thats a female! etc.

Then I look at mine and he's a handsome little chap and perfect, but I'm sure as I walk down the street with him someone else is thinking my god look at those ears etc.

Tall - no. she doesn't look like a cute little piglet from the film Babe. She looks like a proper big farmyard pig. I am just referring to her face and not her size btw. And yes, I know I am the cruellest person ever for thinking this. Luckily I am very good at keeping my thoughts to myself when required.

My (quite lovely looking in my objective opinion) five year old girl looks like a troll on her passport photo. Immigration officers faint in horror at the sight....

Well I'd need to see a picture but I know that's not possible (or ethical!)

Many ugly ducklings turn into swans, we all know that...

tiggy That's not true!

tallwivglasses .... psst ...being a Grandma is soooooo fab.
Love it!!

You're right, she is only 2 so there is plenty of time. Unfortunately she takes after her father look-wise (BIL) who in his mid-30s and still has the face of a pig (and the personality to match but hey ho).

But I love her really, pig-nose and all

Ha ha, I remember when I was in hospital after having DDs. I looked at the others in the bay I was on and said how lovely they were, while thinking 'don't think much of yours'!!!! Its horrible to think that i thought like that. I think it must be nature making you more protective of your own babies.

PS I now think all babies are beautiful (just not as beautiful as mine were)

My DS1 came out looking like he was inside out. All bright red and wrinkly.

DS2 came out looking like a freeze dried walnut he has so many wrinkles.

but if you look at the pics on my profile you will see that at almost 7 and almost 4 they have filled out all their nooks and crannies and are absolutley gorgeous.....

Sorry, I can't help it, I think all babies are gorgeous.

PatPending, thanks

Obviously mine is better looking than almost every other baby I see (included the ones on the nappy packets)

He just pulls faces in pictures to make him look like a garden gnome

When PFB was a few weeks old we went out for lunch. As we were leaving a woman looked at DS and said "they all look like slugs at this age don't they!". I couldn't believe she had been so rude about my gorgeous baby.

Looking back, she wasn't that far off the mark!

Lol, this has made me laugh so much! I always thought all babies were ugly until I had my beautiful cute dd... Now I haven't seen any more beautiful babies, but I have see a few who are nearly as gorgeous. Most still look pretty ugly to me though!

I love all babies. I've never thought a baby was ugly. I might think they have big ears or an odd shaped head or whatever...but I just couldn't think 'baby' and 'ugly' in the same sentence.

I can be objective, though. My Ds was a beautiful, beautiful baby. People used to stop me in the street to tell me how gorgeous he was. My DD, however, was a funny looking little chicken.

You should see baby TED2.

She is perfect. So there.

i make gorgeous babaies. no idea how as i am a minger pmsl

I just told my son about this thread (as I was giggling away) - he said that people are just being weird so I should say that he looked like a bogey

He did not. He was gorgeous as was DD.

Its funny how they keep changing though and the ugly duckling thing does happen a lot.

Some friends had a baby, they thought she was the most gorgeous thing ever, we thought she looked like your Christmas turkey, before you cook it.

Then she blossomed into quite a pretty blond toddlers, all fine.

Now she's a schoolgirl and she's gone a bit wrong again, and looks very overweight though is probably just about to have a growth spurt or something.

But then she'll probably have this growth spurt and a few years will go by and she'll be a teenager and she'll get some highlights and get a bit gangly and will look like a polish supermodel.

Then she might have 4 kids and it will go wrong again

etc...

YABU- most of them are so cute I don't even notice how ugly they are. My dd was plain georgeous. everyone said so!

Pan is wrong. All babies are fugly, except mine, who are universally acknowledged as beautiful.

I think its quite a normal response. I'm rubbish at cooing over babies, but have restrained myself from telling everyone else how unfortunate they are not to have perfection like me

OK to think this, but NOT to say it

you are MEAN

i would link a pic to my newest baby but now scared someone will say he is ugly [sobs at shattered beliefs]

nah he is a stunner, am not showing you cos you'll all be jealous.

I am with Queen Victoria on this.

I think most babies look like little old men or frogs, but are appealing nonetheless.

Each to their own!

when i was born i didnt have a name for 3 weeks so i was called ET, i came out chin 1st so my nose was flat to my face and i was yellow!!
my pfb was stuck in there trying to get out for over 40 hours so when he came out it looked like i had held him by his feet and hit his face against the wall, needless to say he is beautiful now
a member of our family has had a baby and she looks like roland rat crossed with dumbo luckily even the mother thinks so!!

They gave me a dose of morphine after my CS with DD. I remember feeling sorry for the other mothers as their babies were ugly and mine was spectacularly beautiful. I thought "If they gave A-Levels for babies I would get an A* for this one"

When the morphine wore off I realised that she had a rather flat interesting shaped nose. And was still covered in white stuff.