Ugly babies?

Be honest now... for those of you who've had babies before...

Do you think your babies are gorgeous the first time you set eyes on them? Or were you disappointed?

Being a new mommy, I'm so excited to meet bub at the end of the journey but on the other hand, will I get disappointed?

I look at DH all the time now, trying to picture how bub would look like... it's like being given a pressie, you know what you're getting but you just can't picture it. Will I love it immediately? Oh I can't wait to unwrap it and see what it looks like!!!

I thought both of mine were beautiful straight away but then they are! Not that I'm bias or anything
Even if you have a FLK (funny looking kid) they will be beautiful to you.

Hahaha @ FLK - is that a universal term? Or did you just make that up? That's so PC!!! But very funny

Awww but Daniel is indeed gorgeous and I'm quite the critic too! Do you know what you're having this time round?

I was pretty spaced out when Lauren came into the world with all the drugs I was on. I thought she looked like my Dad and her name was Nicole that wasn't her name at all, my name is Nicole! I don't recommend drugs at all!!

To answer your question seriously though, I thought Lauren was the most perfect, gorgeous baby I had ever seen and I didn't care what anyoen else thought! To me she was everything I dreamed she would be!

Jake looked like a little doll, he was perfect, with a wee head of dark hair and a perfectly round head. I couldn't believe how perfect he looked.

Charlotte was red, wrinkly, bald and angry looking. Peeling and funny looking, like a skinned monkey. I loved her to bits.l but it took a looong itme before she got "cute". And I rmember thining when they put her in my arms "oh, she's not cute like Jake was"

I'm with Kelly ,I don't think all babies ar beautiful, but all mothers will think their babies are cute, and everyone will always say how beautiful/cute they are regardless.
You won't care, honesty!

Gosh no, Belle was not a pretty baby. I felt very protective but didnt think she was beautiful until she was a few weeks old.

She had these little seal-grey eyes and didnt cry, just glared at you like she was grumpy about being hauled out.

I still wonder the same thing - you will never know because they are beautiful in your eyes... and people will tell you they are beautiful too!

Thanks for the candor guys! This is great...

I know it's shallow but hey, right now that's all I can obsess about. How our creation would look like. And yeah, I get what you mean.. even if I had a FLK others wouldn't tell me so. I just wondered if all mummies are biased and think they are gorgeous anyway... so it's great to hear some of you saying that you honestly didn't think so at first!!!

My mom told me that when I was born, her best friend's daughter was also born 2 months before me.

But I was an ugly looking creature. I was 2 months premature, and was a dark, crying, tiny, hairy looking creature. Each time they took their daughters out on a stroller, we would be side by side and strangers would gather around her best friend's daugher and commented how cute and beautiful she was (She's everything I wasn't - chubby, rosy, smiling). No one would even glance at me

But hey, now that we've grown up, I must say that I ain't that bad looking.

Hey Spicy Chick. I loved DD from the start and I must admit that I didn't really get to see the cone head thing because I was a bit spacey but DH did. I have to say that all newborn babies that I have seen look very much like a wrinkly pink monkey and they start to straighten out after that. In DD's case it continued a bit longer though because she had red scaley skin for quite a while and we had to use hydrocortisone cream on her to clear it up.

No matter how your baby looks when it comes out you will love it anyway and it only gets better.