Reproduction is incredible

[LittleLionMansMummy]

A year ago my dd had only just been conceived - a ball of cells containing information and not even yet an embryo. She's now the most beautifully angelic looking 4 month old, sleeping peacefully in her crib, and she rolled over for the first time today. She's a real little human, her character is already emerging. Times like this really do make me catch my breath. How life can change so much in such a short space of time.

Being a parent is a super secret club of wonder and miracles hidden in plain sight it seems.

This thread needs a smug warning.

I think life cam be appreciated in many forms, not just human baby form.
Especially at this time of year.
Watching spring unfold is always a miracle to me. New buds, new shoots. I can see little spring flowers in my garden hear the birds singing for mates, trees about to unfurl. I plant seeds in the soil knowing in a short time they too will erupt, bringing forth a hidden world. I don't think it's a hidden world or a secret club, it's here for us all if we look for it.

I love this! My baby dd has the same blood type as me, me mum and grandma. I wonder how many generations it goes back carried from mother to mother. Amazing.

It's so fashionable to be scathing and cynical about being a parent but I generally love it, my dc are my greatest achievement and are completely miraculous. :)

We feel so proud when we produce perfect babies, but it's really nothing to do with us. Amazing all the same, but instinct and hormones have to take the credit.
Reproduction is a basic animal urge, perhaps the clever ones are those that manage to over ride this urge and not have babies.
I'm watching blue tits in the garden collecting bits of stick and dog hair in their beaks. In a couple of months they'll be teaching their babies how to get seeds out of the bird feeder and wash in the bird bath.
It happens every year and I never get bored of watching them .

Yes new life in nature - as opposed to humans- can be even more miraculous to watch, these amazing animal mums just getting on with it all on their own. Guinea pigs are born in amniotic sac and the mum has to give birth, turn around and burst the sac or baby will suffocate, will never forget returning home to find our pig- with her new baby by her side, she'd just given birth, gov through all of this on her own and even groomed herself and her little ball of fluff happily by her side .

Ooh yes skerry and molly. I was driving the other day and looked up to the sky and saw a bird carrying a large twig in its mouth. There is literally nothing more spring like is there? All of a sudden i felt really happy and excited for the next few months.

We have two budgies and it blows my mind to look at them and think that they came from really tiny eggs. And they are so ridiculous and pathetic and naked and minuscule when they hatch, but just 6 weeks later they are fully feathered, flying, eating seeds, chirruping away...

Animals are even more amazing than us.
They have babies and look after them perfectly, despite not having the internet, childcare experts, etc to tell them what to do .

You are having a bad day and then a thread like this pops up and makes you wonder, think and calm down..great post OP and the rest..💕

Littlelion & skerry - crying here too as I wait for my nearly 2yo ds to wake up so I can hold his little hand

Yes, I look at my nearly 3 year old and he's just a perfect squishy bundle of cuddles.
He was a late talker, then suddenly lots of sentences, his little brain is coming up with all this stuff!
The human brain is a fantastic organ.
I love the miracle of germinating seeds. We're going to plant sunflower seeds soon, I find it amazing that such a big plant grows from a tiny seed!

If reproduction makes you believe in God then would infertility not? I personally have been ttc for 3 years and seeing this thread on aibu when it should be on parenting makes me believe less in the humanity of other people.

I agree, I often marvel that my DDs are real people! My 3yo talks about becoming a mummy and a granny.

Astoria7974 I'm so sorry for your troubles. I can totally understand how this thread coming up suddenly would be upsetting (I'm in a similar situation) and I do agree it shouldn't be in AIBU when there are other forums that are much better suited. The trend for posting in AIBU to take advantage of the higher traffic is very frustrating in general.

Aaaaw... babies really are one of natures wonders

Astoria, for you

Maybe this thread should be somewhere else, but regardless of that it is heartwarming and uplifting (and a lovely diversion from threads about parking and the merits or otherwise of force feeding infants frozen potato smilies).

Skerry - your hand comment was just perfect. I have tears in my eyes and I'm at bloody work

Sanfranbear,

Motherhood is all about loving, but also about letting go. That's the hard part, and when we need strength.

Because we love our babies dearly so that they have strong wings to fly.
As it should be.

and the mitochondria inside her, working away maintaining her little cells so she keeps breathing and moving, are genetically the same in all the women in your birth line. Amazing isn't it?

Astoria I'm sorry this thread makes you feel that way. I too struggled to conceive ds for nearly 3 years (I have pcos). That only makes me more grateful and appreciative. Back then I'd much rather have seen a thread like this than any number of others lamenting how hard parenting is and how their kids have behaved like little shits and they regretted having them.

To the others commenting about this being in AIBU, I could of course have titled it "to think that reproduction is incredible?" which I did toy with. But i suspect your feelings would have been the same. There are any number of threads on AIBU that probably don't belong here. Report this life affirming thread if people being positive and happy is so offensive to you. My good mood has been well and truly hoovered.

hatesummer-yes, and the same DNA transcribing for these metabolic processes cuts across all animal species, not just our human ancestors, but our non- human ones too.

7 months pregnant here and just had to lock myself in the toilet at work to cry

I am so excited to meet my little boy!

Well I'm currently having a delightful time drinking a hot cup of tea and not having snot wiped over me while my one year old is with his DGP

Miracle of nature that he apparently is. I think of him more as a ball of snot, poo and nonsensical tantrums but whatever.

It is not incredible, I wish my husband and I could do it .