to think newborn babies are not gorgeous?

[MemoryLanne]

So a friend of mine just had a baby and she's posted photos on Facebook of when her DD was born - like literally as soon as she was born.

I looked at the comments and there was one saying - she is absolutely gorgeous.

She is screaming, covered in blood and goo, red and blue and with a scrunched up face.

Definitely not "gorgeous"

No newborns are.

Disclaimer - I genuinely mean this in a light-hearted way and do not think my friend has an ugly baby and I'm sure she will grow up to be an absolute stunner

[WorraLiberty]

I think they mostly all look like steak and kidney puddings.

[TreadOnTheCracks]

DD was gorgeous, loads of hair like a little doll.

DS, not so much, but he was a big big baby. he is very handsome now

[OkayHazel]

Op, your'e on a parents forum. Of course they think YABU.

Go and ask on 4chan, and I'm sure you'll get a different perspective!

[ivykaty44]

I have a friend who when she had her baby thought that every other mother on the ward was really very jealous of her incredibly beautiful baby as they had ugly babies. it wasn't until some 12-24 months later that they looked back and realsied that there own baby was just as ugly as all the others only we are primed not to think out own baby is ugly

[anonymosity]

YANBU. I agree. 3-6 months they look cutest (when wiped clean)

[Emilythornesbff]

Although i do agree that toddlers are especially cute.

[GrendelsMum]

Apparently I was not only beautiful as a new-born, but unusually intelligent and observant as well. My Dad still tells everyone that he had never seen another new-born baby with such an appreciation of the beauties of the natural world (he held me straight up to the window to 'look at the trees'). Obviously those are all characteristics which have stuck with me for the last 40 years. Ahem.

[mylittlepuds]

Oh mine was gorgeous. Might be motherly hormones but I'd never seen anything cuter in my life.

[VinegarDrinker]

I called my DS a fat, ugly minger when he was just born . Tbf he was quite swollen and bruised from forceps (and a chunky boy too).

He is utterly gorgeous now, though. Properly should-do-child-modelling blue eyed angelic looking gorgeous.

OP I agree, few babies are gorgeous just born. Elective/early labour C section babies do come out cuter though.

[CheerfulYank]

That is true...my friend had a c-sec and people stop and stare and gush over that baby. She is gorgeous.

[propertyNIGHTmareBEFOREXMAS]

Yabu. They are bloody gorgeous.