Do babies gross you out?

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Babies start to get interesting around 6-8 months. No, I don't feel grossed out by babies, but most kids other than my own make me nervous. And sometimes even mine make me nervous! And when I pick up a baby who isn't mine, it feels weird to me, but when I pick up my own, it feels natural.

I can't believe that some people think newborns are ugly. Well the first few days after they come out of the womb they are funny looking. But a month old baby is about the most perfect looking creature I can imagine.

Question for the women here- when a baby cries do you get that let down feeling in your breasts? Its where a woman's body has this automatic reaction to a baby cry and triggers the same contractions near the milk duct just like a lactating woman has. I've been in stores where there is a newborn crying and I will get a sharp pain in the breast. But then I get that mushy sappy feeling anytime I see a baby. This is weird because in my 20's I was adamant that I hated babies and never wanted one, but now that I am older and cannot have one I want one (or two or three).

But then again I have always liked baby anything and have even cried seeing baby crocodiles hatch out of their eggs. And even gotten goo goo over a baby rattlesnake I saw. I melt at the sight of kittens, Lab puppies or baby skunks.

I don't like babies.

No I think they are beautiful but very premature ones freak me out a bit cos its a bit like the inside coming out too early. More embryo than baby... Eraserhead style thats a bit freaky.

My mother's new stepdaughter (18) recently had a baby. I saw it a few months ago and it was offered to me so I could hold it. I looked at it and got the chills, all I could think was 'eugh, I don't want to touch it. That thing came out of her vagina!' It was the strangest thought at the time and I laugh at it now, but I'm not interested in children. Never have been.

Used to, not so much anymore. Still don't want kids though.

I wouldn't say I'm grossed out, but I definitely get freaked out by them and the younger they are, the more freaked out I get. I too was always that way and I come from a huge family (just to give you an idea, they have thanksgiving in a hall, not a house). I was always surrounded by kids and babies and I too hid in my room until they left (which was every single Sunday and holiday). I waited until I was eight to spring the whole I'm not having kids thing on my mom, but frankly no one was surprised I didn't want them. Pregnancy freaks me out even more. I once had a co-worker stick my hand on her pregnant belly when her baby was moving and I jerked my hand away and started to shiver. I still think that has to be the most God-awful feeling on the face of the earth.

The funny thing is, I know what to do with them if I'm left with them, so people get confused. It isn't that I don't know what to do with them, it's that I don't want to do it. Babies just plain freak me out with their crying and neediness. If I spend one hour with one, I have to go into complete seclusion for a week to regenerate. I know most of this comes from the fact that I'm am so completely introverted that humans tax me in general, so the smaller the baby, the more they tax me with their incessant needs. It's just the way they are and the way I am. That's why I didn't have them.


I'm not much for puppies or kittens. I like to get animals when they are older. Again, it's a chaos factor. I'll deal with them if I have to, but it's extremely taxing on me to do so.

I never felt anything like that when a baby cried. The only response I ever had was to get away immediately. As to the cuteness factor? I don't get it and never have.

But you also have to understand that I was completely phobic about getting pregnant. My immediate reaction to that would have been to abort it, had it ever come up (which thankfully it didn't). I think that stemmed from the fact that all my of my aunts had six to ten kids. I came from a long, long, long (at least ten generations) of overly fertile people. Since babies freaked me out, the potential of babies freaked me out as well. Hence, I put a stop to any possibility of pregnancy as soon as possible.

Agreed. If someone offers for me to hold their baby, I back away.
No way am I having one of my own. I can't stand the thought of being pregnant.

I don't like babies. I also don't like it that people expect me to coo over their own just because I have a vagina.

i like babies, just the getting drooled on and changing of the diapers i don't care for..but if you want to be a father someday, you have to tolerate it

I don't think any parent likes the changing of diapers, baby spit ups and drool. You just have to deal with it if you want to be a parent much like cleaning the litter box comes with having a cat.

Personally I can't stand the things.

Only by their constant drooling,other than that,i can tolerate them to some extent.

I went through a brief period of really wanting to have a baby (by brief I mean about a week) but over the last few years the idea has seemed less appealing. The thought of being pregnant freaks me out a lot, which is odd as my Mum loved it, and the cuteness of babies just isn't enough to counteract the huge amount of hard work they are. However, I love children. I'm planning to adopt a few kids when I'm older and wealthier but until then I'm training to be a primary teacher. I'm in the foundation stage (3-5) at the moment and they're lovely but buggers to actually teach. 10 year olds are my favourite.

So the answer to the question is, babies don't make me queasy but I wouldn't want to have one of my own, besides it would have to inherit some of my faulty genes.

I agree. I'm OK with toddlers once they can begin to express themselves so I don't have to GUESS wtf it is they want.

I've seen some really cute babies as well. But they cease being cute once they start making a holy racket.