Pure Beauty

I was just thinking of a conversation I had with a friend while vacationing in Washington D.C.  We were talking about newborn babies when she said "I think all newborn babies are gross."  As in, newborn babies are homely - not like they are so gross that can't even look at them.  In fact, she wants one more than anything.

Instinctively, I got a little defensive since Chloe was once a newborn baby and "all" implied that my friend thought my newborn baby was once ugly.  At the same time I totally understood where she was coming from, and I had a flashback to a similar conversation I had with my Mom and aunts just about 13.5 months ago when I was arguing the exact same point.  There was a time when I felt exactly the same way she does.  My aunts said "you say that now, but just wait until you hold your baby in your arms.  You will think she is the most beautiful thing you have ever seen."  Yeah, yeah.

I will never forget the moment when the doctor placed Chloe in my arms.  She was all gooey and whitish/blue.  Her hair was matted to her head and she was skinny scrawny.  But despite all of that, she was hands down the most beautiful thing I had ever laid eyes on in my 26 years of life.  I know it is so sappy and cliche, but I'm dead serious.  I even look back at pictures of Chloe now from when she was a newborn and I still think she looks perfect.  It is just further proof that the minute you hold your new baby you are reborn a Mother.  You have a new set of eyes, and they are able to see raw beauty.  Pure beauty.  It is beauty amplified by the deepest love imaginable. 

So I can definitely say that I no longer agree that all newborn babies are ugly.  Some of them, maybe, but not mine.  Oh yeah, I'm that mom.  So I'm going to give my friend a hall pass, because I know she'll see the err of her ways in due time.  But if anyone else tries to say that my newborn baby wasn't perfect in every way I'll probably go all primal on your ass.