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My sister asked me if I thought her infant/my niece was cute. I said yeah.
All babies are fugly and gross annoying blobs.
This always cracks me up in the OR - in C sections, the mom is usually awake, so the staff in the room need to watch what they say. Baby comes out like a fucking chest-burster from Alien, covered in blood, that vernix gunk that looks like rancid cheese, and sometimes literal shit. Nasty goo aside, babies pretty much universally look like a hairless pug when the first come out.
Invariably, 2 or 3 nurses start doing the whole "Oooh she's so cuuuute!" thing. I still can't tell if they legit think it's cute, or if they're just really good at putting a show on for mom... cuz they look like something from a bad scifi-horror movie.
I'm so glad that I, as a man, don't get handed over random babies from friends.
"Do you want to hold him?"
Oh god no, take that thing away! It's gonna puke, I'm sure!
Especially newborns.