Has anyone else thought this...is it mean, lol???

I was just looking back of photos of my DS when he was newborn and while he was tiny. I just had the though, 'wow, he's not the prettiest baby is he?' LOL!! When he was born he did have pretty bad bruising because he was born really quickly (there's a name for it but I can't remember what it is). Then when he was little he lost all of the hair at the front of his head. It was pretty hilarious, but he looked like a little old bald man! So he just looked sooo funny! Now of course he couldn't get any cuter ;) but when he was a little baby, well lucky you have mummy goggles when you have kids cause mine wasn't the nicest to look at, but I thought he was the most gorgeous thing I had seen since I had DD (who really was a gorgeous newborn!).
So has anyone done this or am I the only nasty mummy here??!

I haven't personally. But a friend of mine asked me the exact same question. Her DD is now 18months old and she stills looks at her and say it!

lol, i'm sure many people think the same thing - both my babies were good looking newborns, they were c/s babes, so they weren't all squished and bruised, but they both went through a bit of an awkward stage at a few months old. but, now are the most gorgeous babies to walk the planet (i may be biased...)

Riley was incredibly bruised as a newborn but we thought he was gorgeous, looking back he just looks dreadful LOL
DD2 was REALLY chubby at about 6-9 months and now looking back we think OMG she was FAT!!

Oh gosh Jazz went through this awful ugly period at 4-6 weeks where she got those newborn pimples all over her cheecks and chin, all her hair at the front fell out and she looked like a little fat balding old man. I thought she was gorgeous (mummy goggles hehe) but looking at photos I think "oh, that was not a good look!!!"

Hehehehehe, she's the most beautiful little princess now, but those few weeks she did have a head only her mummies could love :lol:

Hehe, I've got some terrible pics of DS.
He seemed a little overcooked and a bit wrinkly, he was also on the runty side so no chubby rolls for a few months. He really was a beautiful boy but in some pics...he just looks a little wrong :o

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He really was a beautiful boy but in some pics...he just looks a little wrong :o

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LOL, yep mine did too!!

My two boys were goodlooking newborns. But my firstborn DD was UGLY - I said it then and won't deny it now. She is absolutely gorgeous now, but a real ugly duckling. :) It is the truth, and it never made me love her any less (plus she was the spitting image of me as a newborn, so I figured she would grow into her looks like I did :) ).

i didn't with DD, she was a gorgeous newborn/baby. But I have seen photos of some other newborn babies and thought holy moly glad I didn't get that one! Lol

Yep... DD#2... she was not so cute... looked like she has gone a few rounds with mike tyson! Then as a baby she wasn't the cutest kid, but at the time I thought she was divine! I remember saying to a friend of mine, 'isn't she cute?' and my friend said yes, but I kinda thought she faultered at the time and looking back she probably did! LOL

TBH I really think she is a very pretty girl now, huge blue puppy dog eyes framed with freakishly long eyelashes and a beautifully shaped face... I asked my partner if it was just me thinking she is growing up into a beautiful little girl and he agreed with me... lol. I suppose I will wait a few years and look back on pics and then decide :)

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Lol! I must not have had mummy goggles on when my DD was born. She was very not pretty or cute! We only bought the hospital newborn photo package because it felt wrong to send her very first photo's back. :0

Of course we think she's much cuter now, but you just never know do you.... ;)

hahahahaha :rofl: OMG, you girls......

Ahhh, glad I'm not the only one then!!

DS also went through a stage at around 6 weeks old when he got those bad ugly pimples all over his face :( I could see it made him not so cute to look at & we had a funeral to go to.... people "usually" gush all over newborns but everyone kinda looked & changed the subject or left :cry:
I felt so heartbroken for DS that I left as soon as the funeral was over, didnt go to the cemetary or the wake. I cuddled him extra tight that day.
I was so relieved when those pimples dissapeared (I dont remember DD getting them at all!)

There are also a few pics of both my kids as babies when I think "oh..... I dont remember them ever looking like that" :lol:

Of course we all love them regardless... it doesnt make you a bad / mean mummy for occasionally seeing bad pics of your kids & being able to admit they weren't the easiest on the eyes at that point in time hahaha

i noticed some babies look a bit bruised but DS came out looking cute i thought it was weird i was waiting for him to look a bit funny but no well besides the natural moehawk he has a double crown and no matter wat i do the hair near the back of his head stands up straight i was looking at hias newborn pics today and thought i want him to be that small again

DD1 was a really cute premmie, but DD2 was like a scrawny rat and it wasn't till she was about 6 weeks old and was closer to 2.5kgs that she looked really lovely.

Lilas - precipitous labour my love...

My DD14 was not a pretty baby - but she had a challenging time being born... She is very gorgeous now though!

Lol glad I'm not alone hahaha :D Of course DD1 is the spitting image of me and I just thought she was the most beautiful little thing I'd ever seen... and I still stand by that! Although sometimes now I look at her (either in photos or when she sticks her face up close to me demanding attention) and I squint at her and think, 'Oh, you poor thing... *I* think you're beautiful but are you *really*?' I mean, she IS absolutely gorgeous, but is that what everyone else sees when they look at her?

DD2, on the other hand, well she popped out, they laid her on my chest and I went, 'OMG HAHAHA SHE LOOKS JUST LIKE HER DAD!' Cute as a button, but then her hair all fell out and she's so fair she has no eyebrows and she's always *frowning* like her dad... DH and I obviously still think she's just the most adorable little thing in the world but I know quite honestly she's not really a *pretty* baby... more an interesting-looking one, maybe?
I wonder if sometimes I think she's not 'pretty' because I wanted so badly for her to be a boy, and when I look at her resemblance to her dad I see that she *should* have been a boy, and then she'd be handsome, kwim, instead of an 'un-pretty girl' lol. Poor kid.
If she grows into her looks like her dad did, well, she'll probably be a pretty awkward teen but once she hits 19 she'll be beating the boys off with a big stick! I think she'll be okay once she grows some hair, I just am not that big a fan of baldy babies and DD1 had about two inches all over right from birth :/

Hahaha! I was just thinking this today... I'm editing home video of DD's first 7 months to give to my grandmother for christmas and looking back, DD has has some interesting looks! Also went through the pimples and receding hairline but I barely noticed at the time. Have always thought she's the most beautiful thing on earth.

When she was born her nose was squashed sideways against her cheek and her little bottom lip was all twisted. The midwife went to great lengths to explain that this was because she had been sitting with her face against my pelvis for quite some time and that I should not worry, it would straighten out in time. She sounded so grave and worried for me... but I didn't get it at all! Just kept saying 'look at her squashed little nose! It's so cute!!!'. Ahhh Mummy goggles. Glad I had them on or my little one's scrunched up face would have concerned me far more!

.... i have been lovingly known to say to very few people that my DD looked like a *** funny humoured little man with a tupee on his head ***, lol :lol:

(to paint the picture, my DD had a full little face with dark beady eyes and very crinkly hands/fingers and a ton of dark hair)

We thought DD the loveliest little thing ever to be born of course and I proudly sent out thank you cards with a photo of her aged around 4 weeks. I thought it such a cute photo because she actually had a little smile.

BIL unkindly said "You could have chosen a better picture, surely you have one, she doesnt look all that nice in it" and I was shocked! I hadn't considered anyone could think her *unpretty*.

I look back now at that picture and think "Yep, not the best look ever." She was still a little cross-eyed and so scrawny, poor thing, plus a little pimply. I just never noticed it at the time. She also looked EXACTLY like DH who has a huge nose. (thankfully it has now changed to my nose and actually fits her face) She was never a fat baby, always thin so no cute rolls, and all her hair fell out plus she has kind of sticky-out ears too but we always thought her adorable and of course still do! Now she has beautiful clear blue eyes with the longest dark lashes ever, lovely skin and golden hair with the hint of a dimple in her cheek.

Hehe yep, DS was a really slow weight gainer so for about the first 3 months he was very skinny and wrinkly and looked like a little old man...then about 4 months he chubbed up and looked so cute! The difference was amazing. I look back on the photos and think wow he really was soooo skinny when at the time I knew he was tiny just not that tiny!

i was told most babies were born, with heads disproportionately bigger to their bodies, and that explained to me, why many tiny bubs remind me of very cute turtles. Turtles bobbing up and down, cos they haven't mastered neck control just yet.

bilby was a very odd looking bub for a LONG time due to very little hair mainly.

she looks pretty girly now (long fine hair that goes into long curls) but until the length happened, i got boy comments all the time. She had cradle cap for ages, so she's never grown a fringe and there are still disproportionately short bits of hair at the front of her scalp.

but my mummy googles were firmly on too, i had waited five years to meet her and i was so amazed she actually survived labour, i wasn't really fussed that much about her looks. She looks nothing like me, i think she's lovely, but then i would say that! i'm her mummy!

i remember feeling weird in hospital, because of the number of people that told me, with worried looks on their faces, "you've had a big baby". she arrived at 3.79kg. Since then, i've been told that big babies are 4.5kg and up. Probably what they really meant was "3.79kg is big considering you're only 5ft2" but at the time i felt like i was being scolded, or judged for having a big baby - when i didn't even know what constituted a big baby. and i kept thinking "what does it matter, she's alive, THAT"S what matters". So i went home thinking, she'll be straight into 00's and small nappies then. but no, she needed the 0000 and the nb sized nappies.

easy to confuse a first time mum i guess.

with a nb, i was so entranced by her facial expressions, the balinese dance way she used her fingers so expressively, the kicking of those gorgeous little toes, the rosebud lips, the shape her lips were after a breastfeed, the cute suckling noises, her sleeping noises - etc etc. i felt in love with all these individual things, was so in awe that she was here, alive, with me. Love hormones were there in spades.

Maybe other people see your child more objectively, they don't have the love hormones going on, they don't stare at every aspect of your baby for the amount of time that you do, as the mum.

DD was born at 31 wks - and had a real 'alien' appearance to her. There are pics I just couldn't bear anyone other than DH to see. By 6 wks she looked so small and cute she got nicknamed 'the pixie' ;).

DS was just darn cute from the get go though :D.

I am the same! I look at photos and think that DD1 looked like a little hairy monkey - at the time she was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen :lol:

My mum had a photo of me at 5 months in a frame for years and it was the ugliest photo ever - I show people the photo now and they are in hysterics as I look like the charcter Andy from Little Britain! Anyway one day she looked at it and thought "what was I thinking? that is the ugliest photo ever" and took it down. For years she thought it was gorgeous and then one day the mummy goggles came off. So it does happen to a lot of people I think!

DH and I realised that we were very biased when DS was born - we thought he was beautiful but looking back on photos...
He wasn't ulgy, he was just an average newborn. Then he got a massive receding hairline. We had a pic of him with a huge smile that we thought was the best photo ever, but when I showed it to a friend she laughed and said he looked like a little old man - I was sooo offended. Now I see she was right lol.

DD wasn't the best looking newborn, she has massive puffy cheeks that took a couple of weeks to look normal. But of course I think they are both adorable now.

When V was handed to me I thought "Oh I have one of those babies ppl will say is cute but isnt" but now her head isnt so squished I think she is cute as...maybe mummy goggles hmmm.....

LOL, nattyfred, I was sooo besotted by my little man, but looking at his birth pictures, my goodness, looking back, he was soo squashed and bruised (I have pics on Facebook if anyone wasnts to see). Not pretty at all, then a week or so later he looked all nice and chubby newborn-ish, then a few weeks later he lost half his hair and looked like Fryer Tuck! It's so funny to see in hindsight!

I wont be able to comment about mine for another 7ish months. But the SIL i dont like had gorgeous babies, all hers were good looking bubs but they all looked identical and they still all are except for the last one he looks different and because iv only seen him once in person i didnt think he was good looking but shhh dont tell my SIL :lol:. My other SIL while her girls are gorgeous now they werent so much when they were born, this will sound so mean but her first looked like one of the gremlins but now she has the biggest blue eyes and she sure will be a heart breaker!!!