Do babies gross you out?

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i too find babies appalling.

Anything that involuntarily spurts various body secretions is gross.

"Ugly bags of mostly water!"

Humans have the ugliest babies on the planet. Monkeys, Dogs, Rats, Birds... they all have cute babies; but Human babies are just disgusting! Not to mention annoying, sticky & stinky. They are totally unpredictable. Whenever one is near me I do whatever I can to prevent them from touching me with their germ infested hands.

Hi Melantha,

You seem a very sensible and insitful woman and I totally agree with all that you have said. I think if people/parents just sat and thought about it for no longer than it takes to do the deed of making a baby,they would all have your attitude to raising children. Or perhaps even better, not have children at all. As is evidenced by some of the answers on this topic as well as my observations in the real world, some people should not ever have children or even be allowed anywhere near them. To the ones who write such tripe on an open forum like this GET OVER YOUR SELVES. Being ASDian is no excuse for ignorance. The people that can so easily dehumanise a child are the ones I most worry about, as any evil act known to man is possible if the victim is not seen as human. Sometimes I think there must be some sort of evolutionary process involved with people who cannot stand children. They are precisely the ones that should not reproduce for many other reasons (other than not being able to stand children)

The only thing is we are a consumer society and from the minute our kids are born, or before, we are fed all the nonsense in the world from every angle about our childrens needs. If we buy into the hype as, especially first parents do, the child ends up gettting a very raw deal indeed. With my first child I felt I was totally let down by any so called professional involved in any way at all with any thing to do with him. With my second son I fortunately got smarter and worked on my "mothers instincts" I only ever went near a clinic to have my child weighed (because I didn't have scales to weigh him myself) and took no other notice what so ever and suprise, suprise life was far less traumatic for all involved. Infact I thought life was a breeze.

Hi CanadianRose,

You go girl.

cheers

The comedian Gallagher said, "God makes babies cute so you won't kill them."

I heard a preacher say that babies are really only cute to the parents. Everyone else thinks their ugly. Since he couldn't lie (as a preacher), when someone showed him their newborn, he never said, "Oh, he's/she's cute." He'd instead say, "You must be so proud."

I still want to start a family one of these days.

Don't hate them, just would rather not be in close proximity. Find it difficult to know how to relate to them, and not really keen on holding them.
Baby cries and screams are unbearable and I must leave the scene as soon as possible or I go crazy..... meaning I am in some sort of mental pain.

I've had two babies (well, my wife bore them). Childbirth doesn't bother me. Then, the babies are usually fun to play with. I played "Give Me 5" with one child until it became too easy for him to touch my hands.

People have told me that I would feel differently about my own children and have related their own experience as proof.

I am afraid that if I did accidentally come down with a baby or decide I want a family with my husband... I'm afraid that I would not feel that natural parent-child bond. I run contrary to nature in many other ways and have never felt the family bonds that are, by all observations, supposed to be naturally present in everyone. It does not come naturally to me.

I would be a cold and distant mother, I fear.

I do believe I am capable of bonding with a child, though, depending on it's personality. I don't see myself as capable of bonding with a baby.

Babies are OK, but kids whose parents didn't care to properly educate them and consequently don't behave... I must refrain from the urge to strangle them.

Newborns are pretty gross looking to me--all wrinkled with their faces scrunched up. I hate seeing pics of them. They look like buns that were taken out of the oven much too soon.

Come to think of it, that's just about what they are!

They develop "cuteness" only after about 6 months of age, or whenever they're able to grin.

They stay cute until around 11-12, then turn into ugly teenagers.