I love love love the newborn stage. I think they are so precious and adorable. BUT I think a lot of this is how delicate and soft and sleepy and cuddly they are. Once they are older they are cute in a different way.

7 months old is the cute stage.

Usually no.

My oldest was beautiful and the doctors in the hospital said so too. But she would give these side looks and has always been naturally suspicious and can be standoffish.

My second was not a cute newborn and had a big bruise on her cheek that looked like a birthmark but disappeared after 4 days. They also showed her to me still covered in white slimy stuff (c-section baby) and I was not impressed. But she’s cuter now at 6 months and has a very open and charming personality.

Generally I don't think newborns are cute, but one of mine was a very cute newborn with hair, a cherub mouth, and chubby cheeks. My other was a tiny preemie and it took about 4 months for him to fill out and get cuter.

I think newborns are so cute. I could stare at them all day. They don't have to be related to me. In fact, at this point, I'd rather they weren't since I'm done with diapers and breastfeeding. I just like to look at them, and if there isn't a pandemic and you let me hold them I'll be even happier.

I also think English Bulldogs and baby salamanders are cute. Cute and beautiful are two entirely different things.

I'll also say that while I am the mother of the three most wonderful children that ever lived, I don't think they were any cuter as newborns than any other babies. I can acknowledge that my African American friends' babies were beautiful AND cute as newborns, while mine were more like the aforementioned bulldogs.