Word: newborns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Somehow, though, they seem so to their parents at the time. Fathers, I think, are particularly enthusiastic about showing newborn pictures, maybe because taking pictures is one of the few things fathers can do during the birth process that makes them feel even marginally useful. (When my daughters were born, I should say on my behalf, I also sang along with the Muzak in the labor room in what I thought was a rather entertaining manner and occasionally asked my wife to dance.) I suspect that it's quite common for a father to come across a picture...
...general, I hasten to say, I'm a sucker for baby pictures. If I run into someone who has a small child and does not display pictures instantly, I immediately get suspicious. "Has the kid turned mean and ugly, or what?" I ask. Newborns, though, are quite a different matter. To put this as delicately as I can, newborn babies are not always beautiful...
...silence of my darkened dorm room. When I'm doing promotional tours and junkets in Asia, it really gets out of control. The States aren't such a zoo, but I get no privacy here either. The other day, this woman comes running up to me and thrusts her newborn into my face. It was a nice baby, nothing extraordinary. And she's like, "Please, please hold my baby. This has been my life's dream." So I hold it, and it smells like most babies. And then she starts crying. "I'm like, please. Really. Stop crying and pllleassee...
...this newborn century--in which accumulating evidence points toward a multiuniverse cosmos where component universes, our own included, are continually created and die--your cosmic analysis can be summed up with some very brief words: What a lot of crap! JAMES C. RITCHIE Glasgow...
...lately she's been having a few problems with her preeminent husband. It seems that Prime Minister Blair, obviously a little unmanned by the prospect of juggling running Britain in one hand with cradling a newborn in the other, is shying away from wholeheartedly embracing his responsibility...