Why does holding a baby, any baby, feel so wonderful?

[Anonymous]

I love holding babies too. It’s hard to resist asking strangers to hold their babies while making googly eyes towards them.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not feel this way even though I loved holding my own baby. I remember people used to offer to let me hold their babies before I was a mom and I didn't really like it. I worried I'd drop it and didn't want to be spit up on.

She nice becoming a mom I like it a little more but still not as much as people seem to think I should. A friend recently had a baby and every time I go over there her husband hands me the baby and expects me to hold her the whole time. She's cute but I don't want to hold a baby for 90 minutes. It keeps me from relaxing.

I remember when I had my own baby I wanted to hold her all the time. But I just don't feel that way about babies universally.

I’m similar. I could hold mine all day long but I’ve never been one to gravitate toward other babies. It’s not for fear of dropping them, I’m just not really a baby person in general.

I’m the same. I was extremely bonded to my own babies but before and after that phase have been pretty disinterested in other babies. One nice thing about having my own was I had a brief period where I felt confident to hold and interact with babies in general but it’s amazing how quickly that passed and now I feel like a clumsy oaf again, who actively tries to avoid that exact situation.

This exactly. I just do not like babies.

[Anonymous]

Truthfully, I didn't even like holding my own babies, let alone other babies. The age I enjoyed the best was the teenage years. My mom was the same way.

[Anonymous]

I've always loved babies. There's something truly magnificent and healing about holding a baby.

[Anonymous]

I don’t like babies either. Ew.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not feel this way even though I loved holding my own baby. I remember people used to offer to let me hold their babies before I was a mom and I didn't really like it. I worried I'd drop it and didn't want to be spit up on.

She nice becoming a mom I like it a little more but still not as much as people seem to think I should. A friend recently had a baby and every time I go over there her husband hands me the baby and expects me to hold her the whole time. She's cute but I don't want to hold a baby for 90 minutes. It keeps me from relaxing.

I remember when I had my own baby I wanted to hold her all the time. But I just don't feel that way about babies universally.

I’m similar. I could hold mine all day long but I’ve never been one to gravitate toward other babies. It’s not for fear of dropping them, I’m just not really a baby person in general.

Yea, nope - I love holding mine more than anything. It’s become a running joke of when I’ll let someone else hold the baby because I enjoy it immensely!! But you literally can’t pay me to hold someone else’s. I had never held a baby until my first - and other people’s babies literally repulse me to this day. I’m so glad I love mine, but I’ll pay you cold hard cash so I don’t have to hold yours.

[Anonymous]

It's how their heads smell, and their little hands and feet, and fat little thighs, and their bellies, and how they sleep so deeply, and and and and... I'm basically counting the days to become a grandma.

[Anonymous]

Speak for yourself. I hated the helpless baby stage and was overjoyed when they could walk by themselves. It was only when they could walk and talk that I stopped thinking of them as parasites!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have always loved it, since I was young and my daughters are the same. It is the best drug in the world. Our neighbor’s just had a baby and I am reminded of this yet again.

Speak for yourself lady! They are fun to watch, but a stranger's baby's drool on my arm and diaper aroma in my nostrils is not my jam.

[Anonymous]

They emit a gaseous neurotoxin

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Truthfully, I didn't even like holding my own babies, let alone other babies. The age I enjoyed the best was the teenage years. My mom was the same way.

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Same. Wish I were a baby person, but I’m just not. Send all your tweens and teens my way, though!

[Anonymous]

It’s the smell. Like the smell of puppies. YUM

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love holding babies too. It’s hard to resist asking strangers to hold their babies while making googly eyes towards them.

OP here. Yep!

[Anonymous]

I like visiting baby-land but I don’t want to live there anymore. So it’s great to hold someone’s happy baby and give them back when it’s time to change their diaper or get them to stop crying or sleep. I do love the feeling when they rest their head on your collarbone. We got a puppy last spring and when he was new he let me hold him like a baby and I loved it. It brought me back to the baby days with my kids. Now I try it and he wriggles away. It was fun while it lasted!

[Anonymous]

Babies scare me. I have twins and that baby stage is a blur of no sleep, multitasking and constant exhaustion for me. I don't feel like I ever got truly comfortable with babies or experienced that stage as peaceful.