A lot of people aren’t going to like this one. I don’t really care for most babies.
I love the family babes, I am obsessed with my friend’s babies (probably too much so but LOOK AT THEM) - but babies in general, I don’t like them.
Society teaches women that when we see babies, we are supposed to immediately fawn over them. There’s this expectation that when we see a baby, we are supposed to smile and coo and our ovaries explode. Mine do not. When I see a baby, it reminds me to take my birth control.
If I see your strange baby in public, I want it to be quiet. I don’t want to hold it. I don’t feel the need to make faces at it because its smiling at me. If it’s on my flight, I’m going to mostly hate it and wish you left it at Grandma’s.
And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
A lot of people act like there is though. People act like I’m a monster when I don’t immediately melt at the sight of a child. If I’m annoyed that you’re letting your tiny human run all over, pull, kick, scream - I’m considered the rude one.
You chose to have the baby. And for the most part, you really cannot control all its noises and bodily functions, it can’t even do that. But have some respect for the fact that your baby is yours, not mine. And it is not my job to cater my life to your child simply because I have a uterus. Please stop expecting all women to be enamored with babies and children.
Strange child, I want nothing to do with you.
I get it, that’s sort of an extreme. Especially when it comes to the babies of my friends and family, I am beyond obsessed. Genuinely so. I want to hangout with their babies and buy them presents and snuggle their sweet faces. These babies are going to change the world and I love them so much.
But strange babies, I don’t know you, I really don’t care enough to pretend to enjoy you in my personal space.
I think it’s dope if your goal in life is to be a mom and you get that goal. But the next time you are out and about with junior, remember that while your life revolves around them, mine does not. And I am not less of a woman for that.
Your body, your choice. My body, my choice. Respect every woman’s decision about children. The world doesn’t revolve around you and your baby simply because you had one.