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Having a baby is a beautiful thing. The miracle of life is amazing, and it’s an incredible feeling for parents to know that they brought a new human into the world. But that doesn’t mean that all newborn babies are particularly beautiful…
Parents on TikTok have recently been sharing hilarious photos of how their babies looked during their first moments in the world and— let’s just say that many of them have faces only a mother could love. Enjoy scrolling through these funny photos that are accompanied by adorable pics of the same newborns after they had adjusted to life outside the womb, and be sure to upvote the pictures that you couldn’t help but laugh at!
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This is gold.
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Jazz hands!
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E. T. 😂
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I know it’s never kind to judge a book by its cover. The last thing I would like a stranger to judge me based on is my physical appearance, and we all know that’s usually the least interesting aspect of a person. But when it comes to newborns, it’s incredibly hard not to laugh at their cone-shaped heads and squished faces when they’ve just come out of the womb. Especially because we know these features are only temporary! We’re all supposed to believe that babies are the most adorable creatures we’ve ever seen in our lives, but they don’t always come out of the womb looking that way. Sometimes it takes a few days, or even a few months, for them to get this whole “being in the real world” thing down. Dr. Maria del Carmen Hernandez wrote a piece for You Are Mom discussing whether or not newborns are ugly, and she explains that they often look that way due to the conditions inside the womb.
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"You won't believe what just happened!!! I mean, waaaah!"
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The second would have been my choice for his birth. Haha!!
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When you wake up from a nap and don't know what planet you're on.
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Hernandez explains that babies often are born with purple, wrinkled and elongated heads and pale, cold hands. This is because there’s not a ton of oxygen getting to them inside the womb, and their heads need to adapt to be able to fit through their mother’s vagin*. Typically, these bizarre looking features go away within a few days or weeks after birth, and then babies become their naturally adorable selves. So if you’re becoming a parent sometime soon, don’t be alarmed if your little one comes out with a twisted jaw, a flattened nose, bent ears or eyes that appear to be crossed or out of place. Focus on counting their fingers and toes when you first see them, and don’t feel the need to share any of their first (hilarious) photos with friends or family.
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That suction cup did a job!!!
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Wow, she gave birth to a middle-aged tax adjuster. That must've hurt.
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She's like dang mom that was TRAUMATIC!
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The idea of a baby being ugly always makes me think of the classic Seinfeld episode where the whole gang doesn’t know what to say to the delusional parents who think their baby is gorgeous. But apparently, this happens all too often in real life, and according to research, it’s perfectly normal. Researchers at Brock University in Ontario have found that babies actually reach their peak cuteness at around 6 months of age, when they have big eyes, chubby cheeks and start making precious cooing noises.
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Little dude was stuck in the birth canal for a hot minute.
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Are those forceps marks?? Poor baby!
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Old grumpy face, but cute! I hear him say: In my days, people worked more and complained less. Or something like this
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"We want to let parents know that if they're not instantly grabbed by this baby as much as they thought they might be, then that's normal,” the lead author of the study, Professor Tony Volk, says. "The bonding will build and grow over time." The researchers had assumed that younger babies would be seen as the most adorable, but apparently, abandonment happens most commonly during the first few weeks of a baby’s life. But part of the reason for this delay in attachment may come from the fact that babies often didn’t even make it past their first few months many years ago. ADVERTIsem*nT
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These have to be natural births. My niece and nephew looked totally normal hours after(C-section). How do they eventually look normal?
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Goddamn why do babies get so ugly
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He was still cute though.
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“Hunter-gatherers who already had a child they were nursing, couldn't nurse two children at once. If you're a peasant mother in medieval England and you only have enough food for one child, and if having two means they're both likely to die, it's best just to have one child,” Professor Volk explained. “These are difficult decisions that humans have made for thousands of years. A delay in attachment makes those early losses easier to cope with.”
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She's very annoyed about being born! :)
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Lmao it looks like he's plotting something
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She was appalled by the whole business.
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Ugly babies are apparently so common that nurses are sometimes instructed on what to say if they can’t honestly tell new parents that their baby is beautiful. Nurse and TikToker Miki Rai revealed that she was taught, “If the baby is cute — you can just tell them the baby’s cute. [But] if the baby is ugly, you just tell [the parent] they look just like them.” ADVERTIsem*nT
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Okay but she’s adorable in both unlike the rest in here! And a full head of hair!! 😍
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Of course we think of the mom's but what babies go through is mind boggling!
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Anyone else thinking..."Quaid, start the reactor"
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Some parents can even admit that their precious bundles of joy weren’t exactly stunning when they were first born. Jody Allen wrote a piece for Stay At Home Mum detailing how her baby definitely had a face only a mother could love at first sight. “He really did look like a smashed crab,” Jody writes. “His ears were folded over, his head was shaped like a cone, and he was really swollen. He was purple and bruised and looked like he’d had a hard night out on the piss. I’ve got eyes, he was [dang] ugly— my baby was really ugly!”
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Poor little guy looks he had a few too many beers
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Wonderful lashes!
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Why are their heads so weirdly shaped??
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“It often takes a few months for them to stop looking like squished-up little goblins and more like cute, smiley little buttons. You can probably blame Hollywood for our expectations of a newborn baby,” Jody continues. But just because a baby comes out looking more like an alien than a human doesn’t mean their parents love them any less. “I adored him,” the mother added.
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Am i the only one who thinks the left pic looks lime moana <3
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Cute in both pics.
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Blep
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If you’re a parent, these photos might not be surprising at all to you. But if you don’t have any kiddos and have never been in a delivery room before, you might be terrified to ever see a newborn in real life! Regardless of where you fall, we hope you’re getting a kick out of these photos, pandas. Keep upvoting the ones you find particularly hilarious, and then if you’re interested in checking out even more funny baby photos from Bored Panda, look no further than right here!
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What I look like after a night of drinking
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So sweet.
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Pepe the frog. (It's a joke)
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Cute in both photos!
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Snuggly little bean <3ANGY
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Christine M Quigley Christine M Quigley Community Member Follow
I think a lot of these babies were delivered by vacuum extraction.
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Oh these forceps deliverance
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Extra fingy for extra luck!
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I always thought the baby caps they put on them were to keep the head warm, but now I’m realizing it’s to hide the wonky head shape until it goes back to normal. Cute little potato looking babies!!
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It's really to keep them warm. My husband changed the tuque for a baseball cap and the nurse kept changing it back. That lasted the first few days I was in the hospital... She got mad and told him it was to keep him warm. So he kept the cap for going home.
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Gillbella Gillbella Community Member Follow
That is a lot of squished baby heads
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Coneheads
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Justanotherpanda Justanotherpanda Community Member Follow
Because, surprise, surprise, that is actually what babies look like when they are born. Social media is ruining this world.
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SirWriteALot SirWriteALot Community Member Follow
Even before social media you sent the pretty photo to your friends and relatives and not the 0-minute one.
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Hphizzle Hphizzle Community Member Follow
I always thought the baby caps they put on them were to keep the head warm, but now I’m realizing it’s to hide the wonky head shape until it goes back to normal. Cute little potato looking babies!!
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It's really to keep them warm. My husband changed the tuque for a baseball cap and the nurse kept changing it back. That lasted the first few days I was in the hospital... She got mad and told him it was to keep him warm. So he kept the cap for going home.
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Gillbella Gillbella Community Member Follow
That is a lot of squished baby heads
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Coneheads
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Because, surprise, surprise, that is actually what babies look like when they are born. Social media is ruining this world.
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Even before social media you sent the pretty photo to your friends and relatives and not the 0-minute one.
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