You're all going to think I'm mad but I LOVE the teeny tiny newborn stage.....

[LadyTophamHatt]

Yes, even with the tiredness, and all the other stuff that makes it hard work.

I just love it.

I love the newborn stage too. it's blissful.

so when does the 'newborn stage' end then? how old?

ummm, yummy lovely tiny baby feet - very lth!

I adore newborns as well, I can't take my eyes off them, both my own and other people's!

LTH right there with you despite having an amazing non sleeping DD2 I am loving it. She is so small and smells delicious or as DH renamed her today Chloelicious..lol Its bad though as it just makes me want more or want to weep knowing I wont do it again...despite the fact as yet havent really moved out of 'baby' stages due to the ages of ds and dd1.

I love it when you pick them up and under the arms and they tuck there little legs up.

I loved it with ds, even though he was my first he was such a contented baby, no colic, only woke once in the night for feed, good sleeper... I can vividly remember sitting up in ght night and feeding him and when i lifted him up too wind him cuddling him really close and thinking that i never wanted him to grow up. lovely.

their wrinkley little tortoise heads and rolly eyes, they smell warm and milky like nothing else. Their little grunty noises and enormous yawns, and they make the cutest noise in the world when they sneeze.

ahhhhhh.... 3am just you and your newborn... heaven on earth, if only you could keep the feeling in a jar and bring it out on birthdays.

MMMMMMmmmmmm..........

Oh, I love the way their eyes roll back when they are dozing off in your arms. The way they look so unbelievably contented. And that gorgeous smell. I would sniff DD's head and it smelled like a mixture of me, DH, milk and something lovely... she just smelled perfect and like she was mine.

Sadly i can't really remember it...both times i was completely in a daze.

I know what you mean though...i think that other peoples newborns are lovely ....such amazing little creatures aren't they?
Absolute magic

I am determined to enjoy it this time, after hating it with DD and then suddenly realising, as Enid says, it was all over in a flash - this thread is helping a lot so thank you everyone

I love it too - mostly.

I fed DS2 last night in bed and when he'd finished, in the dim glow of the nightlight I said to DH "Look, isn't he sweet?" and we sat looking at him fast asleep for a bit. Then I realised he was ONE and I should be over this sort of soppiness by now

I loved it too, newborns are just so gorgeous. Obv the lack of sleep is a killer, but still. Aw...

adored ds's newborn stage.... you don't appreciate it with your first as it's such a shock to the system but with the second (and subsequent) you relise how easy and wonderful they are when they're tiny.

and they smell so good and fall asleep on your chest

Loved it with DS... I think I liked DD at about 1? Possibly...

snap flame... my dd was hard to like for a long time (colic, reflux, no sleep). I loved her to pieces but i didn't enjoy her as a baby at all..... think she was about 11 or 12 months before i did start to enjoy being her mum

i loved my lo wen she was tiny she still is bless and she was so conyent too

I am leaning towards just at 1... 2 & 3 aren't so great

hunker, you don't get over the soppiness. I look at dd1 (aged 9.5) and still say "aw, isn't she sweet?" (However I am careful not to do it in her hearing )

Awww - me too.

Sigh.............totally with you. I think my hormones are telling me that Project Baby Number 3 is not far off....

Yes, total infatuation, dd now 7 months old, and miss that tiny cuddly newborn already.

Dd now too nosey to be realy cuddly. Was thinking of posting a thread similar to this myself, as to why babies are just so gorgeous.

Enjoy, enjoy enjoy, and sniff that gorgeous newborn porridgey smell

Me too

Hey all you newborn lovers BE A FOSTER CARER

you get the joy of a newborn without stitches

You sound ecstatic LadyTophamHatt good for you.

I was quite terrified of the newborn stage, I thought it was going to be boring, they do nothing but just lie there, eat, poop, sleep. I loved it, loved it, loved it. I would just spend hours looking and watching and marvelling, grinning like a cheshire cat.

I called it Postnatal Elation.