But you probably started out ugly. In fact, many parents think their newborns are ugly, say Katherine Malone and Jean Schoppel, instructors in the Preparation for Parenthood program at New York Presbyterian Hospital. You're not a bad person if you have similar thoughts. Bonding Isn't Instantaneous After months of hormonal turbulence and sobbing over diaper commercials, new mothers expect to break into tears of love at the first sight of their baby. She's been working so hard through so many hours of pain that it's great to just lie back and feel nothing.
Fathers are a different story.
We had one father pass out when the nurse handed him his child. Luckily the child landed on top of him. Not all baby poop is the same. It's called meconium, and it's the debris from the amniotic fluid swallowed while the baby was in utero. A few days later, the baby's poop will be very liquid.