To think newborn babies are weird

[MyNameIsRachel]

I’ve got a 6 month boy and much prefer him now.

When he was born the up all night thing I wasn’t prepared for, then the freaky startle reflex.

I’ve got videos of him with his arms waving everywhere and cross eyes and I get a bit weirded out.

As soon as he started smiling and the reflex went he seemed a lot less scary.

Am I weird ?

Oh I LOVE the newborn bit!

See everyone says that! What even with the Flicky arms and no smiles ?

Yanbu. It's like having an odd little alien pet.

The cross eyed look is so weird!!

I hate the startle reflex too, it’s a bit spooky. Also the newborn rage. Still love it though

YANBU. My first had jaundice and lost about 10% of her birth weight. She looked like ET or an ancient tortoise. Proper cute and gorgeous by 6 months though.

I think for me the feelings I got while he was a newborn were wierd too, when I heard him move in the basket I would get these electric shock feelings that have me a headache, I think he used to sleep overnight early ish but the reflex kept me awake not him

The feelings were a proper pain

I thought dd was the most beautiful thing I e ever seen and when I look back now she looks like a balder, weirder version of her dad.

I hate the newborn/baby phase. Dd is 2.6 now and I honestly love it. She’s such a character, even the tantrums are amusing rather than annoying. I should have had my babies close together because now I know there is no way I can do baby phase again.

As in not pain in the arse but pain like I was being electrocuted

I don't like newborn babies - look like aliens. My LO was a freaky smiling alien.

From about 3 months onwards they are sooo cute.

Think you’ll enjoy this OP!

I remember with my first telling people “my baby is so beautiful she has hairy ears!”

@AngeloMysterioso excellent !

I miss the little newborn stage 😥😥

odd little alien pet hahaha

I didn’t like the newborn baby stage. No sleep and very little reward.

I loved the newborn stage! Although, ds started smiling at 4 weeks so it wasn’t such a bad wait.

He’s 7 months now and adorable but very hard work and has started tantruming (mostly over wanting to eat my chocolates). I found him easier as a newborn, he was very relaxed. Nevertheless, I think this is my favourite age so far.

I also had a reflux baby after a NICU stay, he would eat every 2 hours and need to be held upright for 1 hour so I never went anyway for 2 months.

I think maybe the whole experience was weird

They are weird. The grunting at night made it hard to sleep. Then dd went through a period of drawing her legs up to her stomach and then crashing her feet back down all while asleep. Used to keep me up at night

The GRUNTING AND SNORTING

WTAF

So true, part of keeping me up all night

They are cute, but also quite odd, yes!

I'm in the newborn stage now and I'm frankly a nervous wreck 🙈 I google everything to check it's normal. I check he's breathing constantly. He smiles a lot but it's clearly wind even though I try to convince myself it's not!

Also he really strains and struggles to poop (but isn't constipated I don't think as he poops lots) and I find that 😱😱😩😩😳😳

@catcatcatgoose aww, he will be 6 months before you know it I promise

I'm beginning to think I lucked out because my son looked great from birth.

I don't think I'm just biased, he was honestly good looking from tge start. Quite boring as a newborn though. He's much more interesting now that he's 9months.

At the time I HATED the newborn stage, I found everything weird but now I look back at photos fondly. I much prefer now though, although yes to the noisy nights- not sure how they make so much noise (not crying) when their bodies are still so small! The startle reflex was cute though to be honest, a bit dramatic mind.