20 Parents Honestly Review Their Newborns and Admit They Were Ugly Babies

Some newborns arrive looking like tiny miracles, and some arrive looking a little more, well, unfinished. In this roundup, parents admit the first moment they realized their babies were not exactly Hallmark-card material, even if they loved them anyway.

The story pulls together anonymous confessions about cone heads, baby acne, wild hair, and those awkward first looks that only parents can laugh about later. It is blunt, funny, and a little brutal, because the people saying it are the ones who changed the diapers and did the midnight feedings.

By the end, it is hard not to wonder which baby photo would survive the family group chat.

On this Reddit thread, these parents anonymously revealed the moment they saw their babies and knew they weren't Hallmark card material:

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1. This mom's baby looked a lot different when those pregnancy hormones were long gone a year later.

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2. Babies can have acne? What?

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3. This mom was blessed with not just one, but two questionable-looking potatoes... I mean babies.

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4. Maternal love masks many imperfections.

youhaveonehour

5. This is important: did he look like Voldemort from Philosopher's Stone, from Goblet of Fire, or Voldemort in a box at the heavenly train station?

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6. Game over: all newborn babies look weird and need at least an hour before they're photo-ready.

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They can also resemble werewolves, apparently.

They can also resemble werewolves, apparently.

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7. That is not what you say to your post-delivery wife who just gave birth to your cone-shaped head baby.

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8. Did he get a trophy for the unofficial award? And does he sound like Mr. Potato Head?

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9. Oh girl, giving birth must hurt less than this.

Dreadzone666

10. At least the hairy baby was healthy and grew up beautiful. She will hate that nickname soon enough.

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11. This mom had a baby that was born ready to ring that bell.

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12. Not Mr. Burns!

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13. An exhausted mom who was ready to pay extra for the overnight shipping of infant razors.

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14. There's actually a theory that says babies reach peak cuteness around their sixth month.

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15. The first words your baby heard outside of the womb were, "Oh God, what's wrong with her?" We need photos.

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16. We are now at the "compare your baby to fictional characters" stage of this list.

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17. And just like that, you're near Mt. Doom.

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18. Which infinity stone do you need to un-Thanos your baby?

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19. A cone that morphed into a predator head?! Once again, we need photographic evidence!

Of course, all babies are precious in their parents' eyes. It may take a while before the parents can admit that their little ones were objectively not Angelina Jolie incarnate when they were born.

Thanks to their honest confessions, we now know babies can be born looking like werewolves and develop baby acne. Becoming a parent isn't really something you can just do on a whim, eh?

Some of these parents were brutally honest, and the baby photos did not help their case.

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