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Your very first thought when you saw your baby?

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aurynne · 30/09/2009 09:07

Hi ladies (and some gentlemen)!

Having no children myself yet, I have always been curious about the first thought that comes through your mind when you first see your baby. And what better place to ask than MN!

So please, I would love to hear your thoughts... from the cheesiest ("He's the most beautiful angel in the world!") to the funniest ("Gee, it looks like a blob!" - Angelina Jolie with daughter Shiloh).

Thanks in advance!

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oopsadaisyangel · 30/09/2009 12:38

DS1 - he's just perfect
DS2 - he just looks like he's sleeping (stillborn)
DS3 - OMG he's DS1 (and DS2) double

dilemma456 · 30/09/2009 15:50

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wasabipeanut · 30/09/2009 15:54

He's perfect.

And he was, with the most beautiful, earnest blue eyes I had ever seen.

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Scorps · 30/09/2009 15:58

ds1: LOOK< an ACTUAL baby (i think i said this too!)

ds2: please, just breath

dd: God that was hard. Oh, look, you funny little purple thing

PurlyQueen · 30/09/2009 15:59

I was so off my face on gas-and-air that the midwife could have handed me a kitten and I'd have been delighted

fruitful · 30/09/2009 16:10

dd - oh! its a baby! where did that come from?

ds1 - oh! he's crying, he's breathing, thank God! (as they whisked him off to NICU)

ds2 - oh, so many tubes, I hope he's ok (looking at the photo dh brought me). I can't actually remember the moment when I saw ds2 properly for the first time - he was 48 hours old by then, I'd just got out of ICU and was exhausted, it's all a blur. I've got a photo of it but I can't remember what I was thinking.

norktasticninja · 30/09/2009 16:13

DD - OMG OMG that colour is all wrong. Breathe baby, breathe.

She was whisked away to another room and it felt like a lifetime before I knew if she'd made it or not.

DS - Thank goodness! He's pink! He's breathing! He's pissing all over me! What beautiful ears

fruitful · 30/09/2009 16:19

What about first words though?

Because I spent 3 months on the antenatal ward while pg with ds2, and the coffee machine was right next to the birthpool room in the MLU. So I got to hear quite a few women greeting their babies. Almost all of them said "hello" as the first thing. You know, lots of yelling/mooing accompanied by encouragement from the midwife followed by a pause, a wail, and then "oh hello!" by the mum.

. Was lovely. Made up for all hours of other people's labours that I had to listen to ...

pud1 · 30/09/2009 16:19

thank god thats over... can i have some tea and toast

Fanjita · 30/09/2009 17:59

When they were taking DS to be cleaned up and I was in recovery from emergency C-sec I said "watch him" to DH as I was worried about him being swapped with another baby! (I blame all the drugs.) However, as 10 lb 11 oz he was pretty identifiable so needn't have worried too much

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aurynne · 30/09/2009 19:35

Hi all,

I think that, when I have my first baby, I'm going to be thinking of MN when I see him/her!

Don't worry, I've never felt the vocation for journalism. Some people here are a tad paranoid, methinks, LOL.

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Disenchanted3 · 30/09/2009 19:39

DS1 I thought 'Fuck my fannys fell out' but said 'OMG hes got feet!'

I meant to say the most perfect little feet!

DS2 I thought 'get him out of the water' (water birth)

With DD I though 'thank god shes out'

But followed closely by 'omg they are perfect etc...'

tinierclanger · 30/09/2009 19:39

I very seriously said that DS was 'empirically' the most beautiful baby you could imagine. I think I really thought I had assessed him scientifically.

randomeuro · 30/09/2009 19:42

First thought was "Is he ok?" (was premature) immediately followed by "omg, I hope they take very good care of him, I love him so much" as he was whisked off to Neonatal.

FrayedKnot · 30/09/2009 19:48

Thank God he's out.

Without having to have forceps / ventouse.

Then after that I can;t really remember until I got onto the ward.

FrayedKnot · 30/09/2009 19:49

Think my experience may have been similar to PurlyQueen's tbh.

Strong stuff that G&A.

giddykipper · 30/09/2009 19:51

Phew.

That it was over and DS was OK.

TheCrackFox · 30/09/2009 19:52

DS1 - "I knew it would be a boy"
DS2 - "christ he weighs a ton". Immediately after he was born they threw him on my tummy. He would 9lb.

UnrequitedSkink · 30/09/2009 19:57

He doesn't look how I imagined! He's bald!

pointydoug · 30/09/2009 20:00

I felt pretty blank. Exhausted. Just wanted her out.

Mousey84 · 30/09/2009 20:01

I had a c-section and being a bit loopy and recall asking the midwife if it was still snowing outside, while looking at my dd in the wee cot beside me. I knew she was mine, but didnt really realise, if you know what I mean!

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CybilLiberty · 30/09/2009 20:28

I thought ' Blimey, that babys purple'

ciforjif · 30/09/2009 20:34

Had twins by c-section.
DD1-ooh she's got big bags under her eyes. And then I felt really sick and I thought I was going to be sick all over her.
DS1 arrived and I really can't remember what I thought just bewilldered.
Feel really bad about that.

kreecherlivesupstairs · 01/10/2009 07:58

That isn't mine. GA with CS, dd born at 08.50 me waking up at 18.30. DH tried to convince me but I wasn't having any of it. She looked like Chairman Mao for about a week. I did wander around the ward looking for my girl, I had to accept that she was the only western child there so she belonged to me.
I was absolutely astonished that she had both fingernails and eyebrows.