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Why Babies Are So Cute — And Why We React the Way We Do

Cute kittens, lambs and more stir emotions rooted in our evolutionary history..

Chubby-cheeked babies, wide-eyed puppies and wobbly kittens: We know cute when we see it. We’re still learning, however, what it does to our brains and behavior.

Once thought to trigger a hardwired, primarily maternal, caregiving response, researchers are now learning that cuteness actually sets off unique brain activity — in women and men — that goes beyond making sure Junior wants for nothing. Marketers and product designers have known for decades that cuteness sells, but a series of recent studies suggests it’s less about caregiving and more about empathy, community and sharing.

In fact, understanding what cuteness is and how it affects us may help us harness its powers for good.

Perhaps unexpectedly, the science of cuteness starts with Nazis.

The Roots of Cute

In the 1930s, Austrian ethologist Konrad Lorenz rose to prominence studying animal behavior to explain why humans do what we do. Lorenz would eventually share a Nobel Prize for his work, and his influence in the field was immense. Virtually every academic study published on cuteness references his idea of kindchenschema , or “baby schema”: Infants of many mammal species have a suite of features, such as a large head, large eyes and a small nose, that prompt a caregiving response.

Lorenz suggested that kindchenschema triggered biologically built-in, rather than learned, behavior. This type of rapid, hardwired response to a stimulus, known as an innate releasing mechanism, means humans would seek to nurture and protect an infant even if they had never before seen a baby. And it’s not just young from our own kind that elicit this response; other species with kindchenschema traits can compel us to provide care, too.

Despite Lorenz’s prominence and the popularity of his kindchenschema work, something the myriad studies that name-drop him don’t mention is that he wasn’t a fan of our generalized cross-species cuteness response. It was at odds with his ideology, which aligned with Germany’s Third Reich.

“Lorenz — a card-carrying Nazi, eugenicist and advocate of the National Socialist doctrine of racial hygiene — actually believed that the fact that we feel baby animals are cute … is a bad thing,” says cultural theorist Joshua Paul Dale, a professor of English at Tokyo Gakugei University and an editor of The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness . “[Lorenz] considered this to be the ‘misfiring’ of a pure primal instinct to care only for one’s own young.”

After World War II, other researchers began to test Lorenz’s hypothesis about kindchenschema activating instinctual caregiving.

“They both succeeded and failed,” Dale says. He adds that while kindchenschema turned out to be an accurate way of defining cute stimuli, an individual’s response to it — shaped by personal experience, cultural variation and other factors — was not as automatic as the Austrian researcher had hypothesized.

Says Dale: “It does not operate mechanically like flushing a toilet, as Lorenz said.”

For scientists focused on the psychology of cuteness, the realization that our response to it is more complex than originally thought was the first hint that kindchenschema evokes more than just caregiving.

Meanwhile, researchers trying to understand how cuteness evolved in the first place began to look more closely at which species exhibit it.

Ewe Oughta Know

Daniel Kruger, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Michigan, believes cuteness can be explained through something called life history theory. It’s a framework for understanding how natural selection may have shaped a species’ anatomy and behavior at different stages of life.

At birth, many species must fend for themselves, such as the brush turkeys of Australia and Indonesia. Juveniles hatch fully feathered and virtually ready to fly. Other species, particularly mammals, are born fairly helpless and rely on parental care for an extended period.

“Every organism has limited resources, so how are we going to allocate that effort? It’s always a trade-off,” says Kruger. “We see a convergence of high intelligence and slower development. … There is a need for parental care because the brain is developing over a longer period of time.”

Or, as his University of Michigan colleague Stephanie Preston puts it: “If there’s pressure to evolve a bigger brain, the brain can only get so big and still make it through the birth canal. So you come out with the brain not fully finished, still needing to develop, and you need more parental care.”

Preston, a professor of psychology and director of the Ecological Neuroscience Lab, studies how and why behaviors evolved in both humans and other species. She notes that some form of kindchenschema turns up “across the board” in social mammals whose young require parental care.

Not every species has the same response, however.

For example, Preston says, sheep live in social groups, and all pregnant ewes in the group typically give birth at about the same time of year. Their lambs exhibit kindchenschema, but ewes “are very sensitive to kin recognition” and will only nurture their own offspring. It’s likely the response evolved to make sure Mom wasn’t wasting her milk on someone else’s baby.

On the other hand, rats do not have pups at the same time. They also have a more generalized response to cuteness and, in lab settings, will actively nurture and protect young that are not their own. When Lorenz pooh-poohed humans’ nonspecific cuteness response, he missed this benefit.

“In evolutionary terms, if it were a bad thing, a mechanism would have evolved to make the response more specific to our kin,” Preston says.

In fact, Dale and some other researchers see our generalized cuteness response as crucial to becoming the species we are today. Dale notes that human babies don’t attain “peak cuteness” until they’re five or six months old.

“This is the age when infants begin to be more aware of other people and their relationship to them, and thus are able to respond to socialization,” he says. “I don’t have children, but when I see a cute child, I smile and hope to receive a smile in return. I think that cuteness encourages us to help socialize children who are not our own, and that this was a revolutionary behavior that helped us to develop the cooperative skills and collaborative abilities that make us human.”

This Is Your Brain on Cute

Lorenz and other 20th-century researchers had limited tools to study the neurological activity that cuteness triggers. More recently, though, broader access to different types of brain scans has given scientists a much better view.

In a study published in 2009 in the journal PNAS , for example, researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitor brain activity when adults viewed images of infant faces. Some of the images had been digitally manipulated to enhance or reduce their kindchenschema.

Study participants rated the infant faces with enhanced kindchenschema as cuter. Those images also set off more activity in parts of the brain involved in reward processing, such as the precuneus, associated with attention, and the nucleus accumbens, which is linked to the anticipation of a reward.

The findings were among the first to show that kindchenschema trips our reward motivation wires, leading us to want to pay attention to, and care for, an infant, even if not our own.

Another thing we know: Our cuteness response is lightning-fast.

At about the same time as the PNAS study, University of Oxford neuroscientist Morten Kringelbach was studying cuteness using a different type of brain scan, magnetoencephalography (MEG). “It looks like a large hair dryer,” quips Kringelbach, adding that the benefit of MEG is that it shows not only which areas of the brain are activated, but also how quickly signals travel through them.

In a study published in PLOS One in 2008, Kringelbach’s team found that when they showed images of babies to adults, there was initial brain activity in the visual cortex and areas responsible for facial recognition — something the team expected. What they also found, however, was rapid activity in the orbitofrontal cortex, “an emotional part of the brain,” says Kringelbach, and an area also linked to reward-motivated behavior.

Images of unfamiliar infant faces activated this area in the brains of women and men, parents and nonparents, in a mere one-seventh of a second — a near-instant response that’s atypical.

Normally, Kringelbach says, before we respond to something emotionally, “you have to identify what is out there. Identify what it is, where it is and then form a judgment. If I am looking at a flower, for example, my brain uses that two-step process.”

Over the last decade, Kringelbach and colleagues have continued to use MEG to log brain activity in response to the cute and not-so-cute. They found that the “fast pathway” response to cuteness can light up not just with a baby’s face, but also their smell and the sound of their laughter.

This quick response did not occur, however, when study participants viewed adult faces or listened to adult voices. And when individuals looked at images of babies with the congenital deformity known as cleft lip, which disrupts kindchenschema, says Kringelbach, “There was a much diminished response in the orbitofrontal cortex.”

Does This Crocodile Make You Smile?

Mammals need mommies. (For many mammal species, fathers also play a role in parental caregiving.) So it’s no surprise that kindchenschema, or “baby schema,” shows up across Mammalia . This suite of facial features, including large eyes and a small nose and mouth, elicits a caregiving response that’s handy if you’re an infant dependent on getting that care. But what about non -mammals? University of Michigan evolutionary psychologist Daniel Kruger decided to investigate whether kindchenschema might also be present in birds and reptiles that provide parental care. Kruger’s team showed college students images of baby birds and reptiles from eight different species. Four of the species were what’s called semiprecocial, meaning they required some parental care. The other four were superprecocial and independent from birth, no mom or dad needed. Participants answered a series of questions about the animals, including whether they recognized the species, wanted to hold or pet the animal and, if they found it abandoned, would consider helping it. The results, published in a series of studies between 2015 and 2017, were intriguing. Although participants knew little to nothing about most of the species pictured, they consistently rated the animals that required parental care as cuter and more likely to receive their attention and aid than the superprecocial animals.

“Kindchenschema elicits the caretaking reaction; it draws our attention and it seems like they need our help. There are similar mechanisms across species,” says Kruger. The research is the first to establish that humans respond to kindchenschema in nonmammals and, crucially, that the level of the response is linked to the amount of parental care the young animals actually need. The studies suggest that kindchenschema and the caregiving response it triggers may have evolved very early in the evolutionary past we share with animals as disparate as birds and reptiles. As to whether nonmammals respond to kindchenschema across species, as humans do, don’t expect that to get tested anytime soon. It’s not a great idea to put a crocodile and a penguin chick together to see what happens.

The Trojan Horse

Many studies, particularly in the 20th century, have identified a stronger cuteness response from women. When participants are asked to rate how cute babies are, men typically rate the infants lower than women do. However, brain scans tell a different story.

“Brains can’t lie. Their brains show the same response,” says Kringelbach. Differences do emerge if cultural expectations about gender-based division of labor leave women providing all of the parental care, he says, “but if men are involved in caring for the babies, their brains have the same response as women’s.”

This ultrafast gender-neutral response to cuteness activates more than our reward centers.

In a 2013 study, researchers recorded the brain activity of participants exposed to both positive and negative infant vocalizations: recordings of giggly, happy babble and a distress cry. The volunteers also listened to recordings of distress cries from adult humans, dogs and cats. Brain activity ticked up in response to the infant vocalizations markedly faster than all other stimuli, sometimes in as little as 50 milliseconds — that’s one-twentieth of a second.

“The infant crying elicited this very early response,” says Kringelbach, a co-author. “We are wired for babies.”

What’s intriguing about the rapid response time is the part of the brain that activated: the periaqueductal gray, an area associated not with reward, but with survival behavior and responding to threats.

“Your brain is put into ‘be ready for something’ mode,” Kringelbach says. “When there is a baby around, even if it is not crying, you are ready for something to happen.”

Other research has shown that both visual and auditory aspects of kindchenschema prime parents and nonparents alike to be on their A-game.

A 2012 study in PLOS One found that participants performed both motor dexterity and visual search tasks more accurately after viewing cute images versus non-cute images. In a separate study, Kringelbach’s team had participants listen to either a baby crying, an adult crying or birdsong for five minutes. Afterward, the volunteers played a game similar to the carnival classic whack-a-mole.

“The group that listened to the baby crying was much faster and much more accurate,” says Kringelbach. “You cannot help but react.”

While few people would call the distress cry of an infant “cute,” our hardwired, rapid reaction to it appears to be part of the cuteness response. Yet Kringelbach and others who study that response say it’s much more than the mechanical reaction Lorenz hypothesized.

The greatest power of cuteness may occur after the quick response. In a 2016 Trends in Cognitive Sciences essay, Kringelbach and his colleagues wrote, “Like a Trojan horse, cuteness opens doors that otherwise might remain shut.” Cuteness attracts, focuses and sustains our attention, creating a space in which we can interact positively with the cute object, whether it’s an infant, a puppy or that totes adorbs baby goat in pajamas on YouTube.

Increasingly, researchers see the cuteness response as less about parental nurturing and more about intense social behavior.

Coping With Cuteness

As many of us struggle with work-life balance, economic uncertainty and the ever-faster, ever-stronger fire hose of information, “cute breaks” are common. Even the researchers who study cuteness do it. “On a Monday morning that’s grim, I’ll put on the ‘four laughing babies’ video,” says neuroscientist Morten Kringelbach, referring to a former winner of America’s Funniest Home Videos that features, yes, four babies laughing. And that’s it. For more than a minute. “Suddenly, you think, ‘Can life get any better?’ ” However, the same cuteness that helps you get through a difficult day may prevent you from moving on to better things. “You endure,” says social psychologist Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes. “This is a new strategy by a lot of employers, such as having dogs or cats in the workplace. It helps people. I would stay in a bad job longer if there was a dog in the office!” “People use cuteness to deal with the stress of jobs that are increasingly unstable and impermanent,” agrees cute studies pioneer Joshua Paul Dale, adding that “it can also be a form of communication that helps to mitigate these stresses by forming a new community.” He cites a conversation with caregivers and aid workers assisting people in difficult situations. The individuals all belonged to a private Facebook group to share cute videos and images. “By sharing, they give each other permission to take a short break and enjoy a positive emotion that helps carry them through the grim realities they deal with every day,” says Dale. Even for those of us far removed from dire situations, cuteness can be a communal glue. “Posting a cute image or video, or sending one to a friend … signals your intention to reach out and share a positive emotion with others,” says Dale. “Posting a selfie at the Grand Canyon may make your friends jealous, since they can’t have the same experience. But putting bunny ears on your head with an Instagram filter and drawing a heart around the photo doesn’t make recipients feel like they lack something; rather, it gives them the warm feeling of cuteness.”

The Power and Peril of Cuteness

Our generalized response to kindchenschema, says Kringelbach, means that “babies are always in the in-group. That’s why they’re great marketing. Everybody wants to be with that baby.”

And cuteness sells. Mickey Mouse famously underwent a radical cute-ification in the decades after his 1928 debut. As the Disney empire expanded, Mickey morphed from a scrawny, sharp-featured rodent to a chubby embodiment of kindchenschema. Other pop culture mainstays exhibit elements of kindchenschema, from Japanese anime to, well, have you seen the number of cute animal memes and videos online?

The ubiquity of cuteness on the internet may be linked to its use as a coping strategy to provide comfort and a sense of community, even if we don’t consciously seek it. (See sidebar “Coping With Cuteness,” at left.)

“Cuteness has a really powerful influence on us, and we’re often unaware of it,” says social psychologist Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes, who studies cuteness at Consumption Research Norway, part of Oslo Metropolitan University.

And, like anything with the power to influence, cuteness can have a dark side.

“Cuteness is something you don’t think about because it’s so everyday and so innocuous,” Steinnes says. “You don’t look at a baby and think, ‘Oh, that’s dangerous.’ ”

“I use the term ‘evil cute’ to describe cuteness used for nefarious purposes,” cultural theorist Dale says. “Unfortunately, there are many examples, such as gaming companies that make slot machines with cute motifs like kittens to encourage solitary gamblers to play longer and spend more.”

In 2016, the terrorist organization ISIS — known for gruesome videos of torture and execution — unleashed a propaganda and recruitment campaign featuring armed fighters cuddling kittens. The images had nothing to do with eliciting a caregiving response. Instead, they likely were intended to tap into what a growing number of studies see as the true power of cuteness: its ability to make us feel intense empathy.

Or, as Steinnes and peers explain it, cuteness evokes kama muta . The researchers use the Sanskrit word, which they translate as a sudden intensification of communal sharing, because they say most Western languages lack a term that captures kama muta in full.

You may not have heard the word before, but you’ve probably experienced kama muta. Family reunions at airports, heartfelt speeches at weddings, even onscreen moments when beloved, long-parted fictional characters find each other again are common kama muta triggers.

Steinnes and her colleagues found that viewing and interacting with cute stimuli also evoked kama muta. The study, published in March in Frontiers in Psychology , had participants report how they felt after viewing cute videos. While the project did not involve brain scans (though they may be part of the team’s future research), Steinnes suspects that “the same brain systems activated when we see something cute also activate when we feel kama muta.”

Some of the videos shown in the study were less than 30 seconds long, but Steinnes says some participants reported being so moved that they had tears in their eyes.

“You can call it love, but it’s not how much you love someone; it’s the sudden intensification,” says UCLA psychological anthropologist Alan Page Fiske, a co-author on the paper, who co-leads the Kama Muta Lab.

Steinnes says the emotion encourages prosocial behavior, including helping others and sharing resources, even with individuals not considered part of your in-group. Because cuteness elicits kama muta, she adds, it “makes you more empathetic.”

The intensity of kama muta, Steinnes says, entices you “to experience it, again and again, so you seek out that stimuli.”

The ISIS fighters weren’t photographed cuddling kittens to seem cute. They were hitchhiking on the power of the cuteness response to make their audience more likely to empathize with them and even perceive them as part of their own group.

It’s the dark side of both cuteness and the kama muta that it elicits.

Which brings us back to, yes, Nazis.

Can Cuteness Save The World?

Cuteness and kama muta promote a bond between the person experiencing the response and the individual or object eliciting it. While cuteness springs from kindchenschema, it’s evoking the same kama muta as other, less innocuous triggers that lead people to feel an intense common purpose. History is rife with examples of how this can go horribly wrong.

Case in point: After Germany’s defeat in World War I and its subsequent economic collapse, an aspiring young politician tapped into the shared resentment and despair of his countrymen. In a series of impassioned beer hall speeches, Adolf Hitler fomented this bitterness into a potent, unified resolve to restore Germany to greatness.

“Once bonded, the question becomes what do they do with their solidarity,” says Fiske. “Hitler probably evoked kama muta in the biergarten, but, thank God, so did Churchill and Roosevelt.”

As scientists learn more about what cuteness does to the brain and the kama muta it elicits, some experts in the field believe it might be a way to reduce divisiveness in our increasingly fractured world.

What Kringelbach once called the Trojan horse of cuteness could be used for good, reducing discrimination against out-groups.

Both Steinnes and Kringelbach cited recent media coverage of refugees, asylum-seekers and other people in distress: When images of the groups include infants and young children, public perception is more positive, and the viewer’s desire to help is increased.

Says Steinnes: “Cuteness humanizes.”

Kringelbach is also working on a project with photographer Tim Flach, whose books include 2017’s haunting Endangered , featuring images of animal species nearing extinction. Together they hope to explore how cuteness can be used to help endangered species. It’s another way kindchenschema may improve the way we see each other and our environment, with greater empathy and a sense of commonality.

Says Kringelbach: “I like to think it really could change the world.”

Gemma Tarlach is senior editor at Discover . This story originally appeared in print as "Getting Cute."

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What Is… the Psychology of Cuteness

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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week we’re going to look at the psychology of cuteness.

Whether your preference is human babies or babies of the animal variety, they’re cute. Even if the associated adults are rather unattractive, the babies just tug at the heartstrings, and there’s probably a good reason behind that.

The baby schema

In 1971, zoologist Konrad Lorenz first proposed that babies are cute for an evolutionary reason. They need parental care, and being cute might make them more likely to get it. “Baby schema” features include large eyes, a large head, a large, bulging forehead, a small nose and mouth, and chubby cheeks. Add in a plump body shape, kissable skin, and a little eau de bébé smell, and you’ve got a magical package.

This paper by Glocker and colleagues includes photos that show how the baby schema features can be digitally manipulated to produce images of higher and lower cuteness. Small changes in those key features can make a big difference. This may have implications for parents of infants with conditions like cleft lip/palate. The cuteness response is unconscious, and that cleft lip/palate affects key features within that baby schema.

Cute animals

Cuteness in baby animals seems to work the same way as it does in humans. Social psychologist Daniel Kruger studied human reactions to baby animals and found the photos that people rated as being cute were of species in which the young needed parental care. Two different reptile images were used, only one of which was a species in which the young required parental care. There was a very clear ugly/cute contrast between the two.

The impact of cute

Cute babies don’t just have an impact on their parents; their cuteness can motivate caretaking behaviours in adults, even if it’s not their child. In an evolutionary sense, this makes sense, as there would have been times when other adults would have had to step in to play a caretaking role.

Cuteness grabs our attention and brings baby to front of mind. That happens whether it’s a human baby, animal baby, or even an inanimate object like a doll. The orbitofrontal cortex area of the brain starts to do a happy dance; this begins about 140 milliseconds after we see a baby.

When babies are so cute you just want to shmoooosh them to pieces, there’s a name for that: “cute aggression.” This happens more with animals than with human babies, and it involves the activation of the brain’s pleasure pathways.

Women tend to be more sensitive to differences in cuteness, and premenopausal women are more sensitive than postmenopausal. It even makes a difference if women are on contraceptives that raise their hormone levels.

The problem with being less cute?

In a 1984 study by McCabe, children between ages 3 and 6 who had more adult-like facial proportions were more likely to have experienced physical abuse than children with more childlike proportions. The researcher suggested that parents may have had unrealistic expectations of children whose features suggested they were older than their actual age and less dependent and in need of care.

I’m a total sucker for cuteness. I don’t particularly like kids, but my brain still does the baby cuteness dance. And baby animals make the world go ’round.

Do you tend to react strongly to cuteness?

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How to Describe a Baby in a Story

By Isobel Coughlan

Do young children feature heavily in your novel? Would some ideas on how to describe a baby in a story help you? Check out the words and examples we’ve included below.

1. Delightful

Something or someone very pleasant to be around.

“She peered down at the delightful baby and shed a tear; he was everything she’d ever dreamed of and more.”

“There was never a more delightful baby than her son, and she knew it.”

How it Adds Description

Babies are often associated with pure joy and goodness. If you want to emphasize how perfect your fictional babe is, the word “delightful” will convey your baby’s pleasant nature to the reader. The word “delightful” can also show the love and admiration other characters have for the baby — especially when used in their internal monologue.

Something or someone nice to look at.

“She was a bonny baby, and the bright bow on her head cemented the fact.”

“The nursery was jam-packed with bonny babies, and she wished she could take a peek at their cuteness.”

Babies are well-known to be cute, and “bonny” is an adjective that highlights their innocence and cuteness. This word stems from Northern English and Scottish, but can be used for sweet babies in any context. “Bonny” can also reference a merry or happy personality, which can also apply to your fictional baby.

Something or someone that’s weak and can’t survive alone.

“He cradled the fragile baby, and he knew in his gut he’d do anything to protect it.”

“Though she was fed well, the fragile baby still looked so tiny compared to the others.”

Babies rely on adults to care for them, and without assistance they’re “fragile”. This word highlights the vulnerability of babies, and it can be used to show just how small and young your fictional baby is. It can also highlight that they’re weaker than other babies, which foreshadows future issues or plot points.

4. Innocent

Someone of something with no knowledge or experience about the unpleasant or complex aspects of life.

“The innocent baby gurgled at his mother’s breast; all he knew was love and his mother wished he’d remain so pure.”

“She peeped at the innocent baby, and despite the troubles outside the sweet babe smiled up at her.”

The word “innocent” highlights how new babies are to the world. They’ve no concept of evil and don’t know the stresses of modern life. This adjective can be used to emphasize how sweet and pure your baby is, and it can contrast them in the future if they lose their innocence.

Someone small, dainty , or delicate.

“The petite baby made a lot of noise for someone so small.”

“You were a petite baby, and we often worried about losing you!”

If you want to give your reader an image of how tiny your fictional baby is, the word “petite” can help. This adjective signifies that your character is smaller than usual, and you can use this imagery to build up a sense of fondness for them.

6. Restless

Someone who’s dissatisfied , bored, or impatient.

“Gosh, that’s a restless baby! Will he ever be quiet?”

“He wished the restless baby would sleep through the night, or at least for a solid hour!”

Babies are cute and positive beings, but they also have the tendency to cry out and fuss when hungry, tired, or agitated. The word “restless” builds a realistic image of a baby for your story, and this will help your readers understand the parents’ lives better. It can also evoke pity, as “restless” signals that the baby’s parents may also be having a tough time.

Someone or something rounded or chubby.

“He cuddled the plump baby, and wished he’d be able to cradle the child for the rest of his life.”

“The plump baby looked up at him and cooed, after minutes they were thick as thieves.”

If you want to provide a physical description of your baby, the word “plump” is an appropriate word to use. This adjective signals that the baby is well fed, without negative connotations. “Plump” frequently refers to babies that are of a healthy weight and those with rounded ‘baby faces’, and it is a great way to show their cuteness to your audience.

Someone very lively, happy , or cheerful

“No one could deny that she was a chirpy baby, and her contagious laughter could be heard across the street.”

“He listened out for the chirpy baby, and his face lit up as soon as he heard the sweet babbling.”

The word “chirpy” is a popular adjective used to describe happy children or babies in novels. This word is often associated with babies who make lots of laughter or noise — ideal if you’re portraying a happy childhood in your story. This can also help to make your reader sympathetic to the baby, as they have a sweet image of the infant in their minds as they read.

9. Precious

Something or someone that’s valuable or rare.

“She held the precious baby close to her. This was a moment she’d never forget.”

“He gazed into the crib, and the precious baby met his gaze with an equally curious look.”

The word “precious” shows how special the baby in your story is. When used for humans/babies, “precious” doesn’t denote monetary value. Rather, it implies how important the character is, and it can highlight how those around the baby care for it.

Someone who laughs a lot in a childlike manner.

“He put the giggly baby to bed, but he knew it wouldn’t sleep for hours to come.”

“You were a giggly baby; you found joy in almost everything and anything you saw!”

The word “giggly” shows that someone has a cheery disposition and is likely to start laughing a lot. This works well when describing babies, as babies often laugh at anything. The term can also show a character’s fondness for the baby when using it in their narrative, as “giggly” is a positive term.

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Researchers are beginning to ask why some people want to squeeze puppies and others want to sniff babies.

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By Pagan Kennedy

Contributing Opinion Writer

March 15, 2019

One night back in the 1990s, I dreamed that I’d been stabbed in the stomach. When I bolted awake, pain sent me hurtling to the bathroom where I threw up. It felt as if a creature inside my belly was trying to claw its way out.

When I was about 10 years old, I announced to my father that I had decided never to have kids. Dad said, “You’ll change your mind.” But I didn’t, and now, at 30 years old, I had an un-baby growing inside me — an ovarian cyst the size of a grapefruit that, doctors warned me, could at any time rupture and fill my abdomen with blood and pus.

I was fast-tracked for an operation and paired with the first surgeon available in my insurance network, on a kind of terrible blind date. “You probably want to know how much weight you’re going to lose when we remove the cyst ; women always want to know,” he said. That’s when I allowed myself to loathe him.

After the procedure, the surgeon told me that the ovary he had removed contained some worrisome cells that might someday evolve into cancer. He said that after another year or two, I should consider getting “cleaned out.” It took me a minute to understand what he meant. Even though I didn't actually have cancer, he was suggesting a full hysterectomy.

“You don’t have to get the procedure right away,” he said. “You could wait. That would give you time to complete your family.”

“Complete my what?” I said.

He spoke slowly, as if to someone with brain damage. “You need to get pregnant right away and have all your children now.” By “family” he meant kids and a husband, possibly also a Volvo. But for me “family” was my menagerie of eccentric friends — ’zine makers, puppeteers, indie-rock roadies, the seven roommates who shared my house, the boyfriend who slept on his mom’s couch.

My first thought was, “How dare he?” My panic was primal — I wanted to hit him, or claw out his eyes. I felt more horrified by the prospect of being pregnant than of having a hysterectomy.

I splurged on a second opinion from a top doctor who said that there was no reason for a hysterectomy. But he, too, suggested that if I wanted children, I should hurry.

“I have zero desire for kids,” I said. It was in that moment that I knew for sure that I’d always felt this way and always would.

If not for my precarious reproductive situation, I probably would have pretended to be ambivalent about kids for 10 more years. I would have told people, “I’m not sure. I’ll decide later.” But now there was no later. So I “came out” to everyone. My boyfriend — who wanted to be a father — dumped me. My mother screamed at me, then mourned. And some friends grew distant.

They couldn’t understand. And the truth is, I couldn’t either. Why are most people born with the urge that drives them to have children and others, like me, not? I began to wonder if science had an answer.

Baby Hunger

First, though, I had to learn how other people felt. Because I’d never experienced so much as a pang of baby hunger, I believed this emotion was just an invention — some myth that the patriarchy created to keep women down. My friends set me straight. Several told me, “Actually, baby hunger’s a real thing.” Women and men described the way an infant’s face peeking out of a stroller had forced them to reckon with a keening desire. Soon some of those friends were dads and moms.

Like Mary. Back in college, she and I played in a garage band together and shared a pair of white go-go boots. But then something sent us hurtling down different paths.

One day, she placed her first baby in my arms and instructed me to sniff the little boy’s head. “You’ve got to smell this,” she said. “It’s like a drug.”

I sniffed obediently and said, “I’m not getting anything” — which was my polite way of saying that actually I detected the tang of spit-up.

Mary was stumped. “Really? You don’t smell that? It’s like baking bread, but a thousand times better.”

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She would end up having nine children. And I would have none.

We’ve become used to thinking about sexual desire on a spectrum — from heterosexual to homosexual, with lots of people falling somewhere in between. Might there be a reproductive-desire spectrum too?

Over the past decade, I’ve been hunting through the scientific literature for answers. And I haven’t found much of anything.

Reproductive desire seems like a big subject to have been bypassed by researchers . Perhaps there’s a simple explanation: For most of human history, people — women especially — haven’t had a choice about whether they wanted to become parents. Maybe it was easiest to assume that everyone simply wanted a baby. But as birthrates decline in every developed country, it’s clear that’s not the case.

Recently a new window has opened up onto our reproductive desires. And it has to do with, of all things, how we perceive cuteness.

Cute Overload

Anyone who has been on the internet lately knows that cuteness can get weird: lemurs with Keane-painting eyes, infants dressed as peapods, cats with toast on their heads. The internet offers up achingly sweet “cute porn” because those images grab our attention. There’s something almost aggressive about the way we crave cuteness.

Several years ago, the act ress Leslie Bibb perched next to Conan O’Brien’s desk and riffed about a baby so cute that it drove her crazy. She pantomimed her extreme reaction to the infant by gritting her teeth and clenching her fists.

A social psychologist named Oriana Aragón , who was then teaching at Yale, happened to be watching. In the days that followed, she found herself pondering a subject that doesn’t usually receive much attention from the scientific community: cuteness.

Dr. Aragón realized that feelings of tenderness can be so overwhelming that they spill over into a behavior that she calls “cute aggression.” An example, she told me, is “when you see a grandparent pinching a baby’s cheeks and saying, ‘I want to eat you up.’” In fact, sometimes baby-talk can sound downright serial-killer-ish if you take it out of context. You might find yourself telling a puppy that you want to squish it — even though, of course, you’re doing just the opposite and gently caressing it.

Dr. Aragón and her colleagues at Yale undertook what are probably the world’s first attempts to scientifically prove the existence of cute aggression. In an adorable experiment , she and her research partners handed volunteers bubble wrap, then showed them a parade of images. Dr. Aragón found that people popped more bubbles when looking at, say, a photo of a kitten than of an adult cat — suggesting that the cutest images do seem to prompt the urge to crush or squeeze.

Because the cute-overload feeling lends itself to study, it may help to reveal the parts of our minds devoted to nurturing that have heretofore been hidden.

Katherine Stavropoulos, a neuroscientist and clinical psychologist at the University of California at Riverside, has conducted a study on the neural circuitry that is active during cuteness-overload. She asked volunteers to wear caps outfitted with sensors that measure brain activity, and then showed them images of wee little animals. Her results suggested that “cute-aggression” involves the reward system in the brain. In other words, it feels good .

But why? “It’s just a completely open question,” Dr. Aragón, who now works at Clemson, told me. Even so, she points out, it’s reasonable to assume that our extreme reaction to cuteness is evolution’s way of making sure that parents do the relentless work of nurturing children. To perpetuate the species, parents must feel driven to hold their babies for hours — and that might explain why the urge to squeeze gets mixed into a cocktail of tender emotions.

Floppy Puppies

Now Dr. Stavropoulos hopes to explore whether the brains of parents and childless people react differently to cuteness.

She told me she has noticed that her friends who experienced cute-overload around infants seemed to be the ones who hurried to have babies. She herself has no children — at least not yet. “I always thought babies were adorable and sweet,” she said, “but was never overwhelmed by the positive feelings.”

It’s dogs that drive her cute-crazy. “Round, floppy puppies that look like cotton balls,” she told me. “I feel like I want to squeeze them until they want to pop — but, of course, I don’t really want them to pop.”

This made me realize that I have my own peculiar trigger. When my dog, Sonny, sprawls on the floor, I will massage the soft flesh of her belly and tell her how I’d like to eat her stomach with a spoon because it’s like pudding. Which is weird.

But here’s something even weirder: I love to smell her paws.

When I confessed this to Dr. Stavropoulos, she said, “I’m happy you brought that up.” She said that she, too, likes to smell her dogs’ paws. The aroma reminds her of corn chips, and like me, she finds it to be “cutest smell ever,” even though this makes no sense at all because “objectively, what’s cute about the smell of a Frito?”

Our conversation reminded me of my friend Mary, who adores the smell of a baby’s head. Am I feeling the same thing when I huff my dog’s paws?

Science has no answer to this — yet. But maybe this is beginning to change.

For the most part, people like me are invisible. We’re rarely studied or quantified. There is a medical term, tokophobia, for women who are terrified by pregnancy. But such women, when they’re discussed at all, tend to be characterized as damaged and in need of fixing.

The thing is, many of us don’t want to be fixed. On Reddit, I found a discussion thread called “child-free as a kind of gender or identity issue?" Commenters on it reported feeling that they couldn’t change and wouldn’t want to. “It’s just who I am,” ran one comment . “From the time that I can remember, I was given baby dolls and I refused to play with them.” The writer added that she had always felt “that I am just not supposed to be someone’s mom” and compared that feeling to “being gay or transgender.”

How many of us feel born not to be parents? It may seem as if we’re outliers, but polls suggest that about one-sixth of people of reproductive age aren’t sure that they want children.

Many of those people are probably less indecisive than they admit. Few women are willing to declare, “Yeah, put me down as someone who definitely will never have kids.” I know from experience just how hard it can be to say those words out loud. It's so much easier to describe yourself as undecided.

Still, around the world, women are quietly opting out. Nearly half of the world’s countries now have fertility rates below the level needed to maintain their population size. In the United States, births are at their lowest level in 30 years , according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The authors of a new book, “ Empty Planet, ” are going so far as to warn that the world population will start dropping by midcentury . “Once that decline begins,” they write, “it will never end.”

When scholars discuss these statistics, they usually observe the link between the birthrate and female empowerment: Women who have access to birth control, education and self-determination tend to have fewer children. But we rarely talk about the women who — once they’re free to decide — decide to have no children at all.

Is this an expression of practical concerns or inborn wiring ? The truth is, we just don’t know. Inside millions of minds are fears and yearnings that we still don’t understand. And those feelings will shape the future of humanity.

Pagan Kennedy ( @Pagankennedy ) is the author of “Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World” and a contributing opinion writer.

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60 sweet baby quotes that will definitely make you smile

When the nights are long and the tears are streaming, sometimes parents need a gentle reminder that babies are the best. Luckily, there is no shortage of baby quotes to help with that task.

Given the sleep deprivation, roller-coaster hormones , and the fact they don't come with a user manual, babies can make even the most seasoned parents feel like they are losing their minds.

But this fleeting season of parenthood is also a reminder of the pure joy babies bring from sweet cooing to taking their first steps.

Whether you need to remember what makes parenthood so special — or, let's be honest, a cute caption to go along with your Instagram birth announcement — these baby quotes will definitely bring a smile to your face.

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60 Baby Quotes To Make You Smile

Looking for a reason to smile or laugh? Here are 60 cute baby quotes that span decades, proving babies are simply the best:

“A child enters your home and, for the next 20 years, makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.” —John Andrew Holmes
“In the garden of humanity, every baby is a fresh new flower.” —Debasish Mridha
"Baby — A little bit of heaven sent down to earth." —Roland Leonhardt
“Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.” —Tina Fey
“Children make you want to start life over.” —Muhammad Ali
“And she loved a little boy very, very much, even more than she loved herself” —Shel Silverstein
“Newborn babies can’t do much on their own. They can’t eat or walk or talk on the phone. But every parent is sure their creation is without a doubt a tremendous sensation.” —Jennifer Davis
“A baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in.” —Elizabeth Bard
"A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on." —Carl Sandburg
“A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years and in your heart till the day you die.” —Mary Mason
“There are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.” —Anne Lamott
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” —Victor Hugo
“A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood — all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.” —Penelope Cruz
"I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle." —Vincent Van Gogh
"A happy baby has shining eyes. It walks open-hearted into the world and spreads magic." —Sigrid Leo
"Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God." —Larry Barretto
“There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.” —Jared Padalecki
“A baby boy has a special way of bringing out the man in his father and the little boy in his grandfather.” —Tanya Masse
“A tiny daughter gives parents a life in a climate of perpetual wonder.” —Pierre Doucet
“It’s hard to feel like much is wrong in the world when you’re looking into the eyes of a happy baby.” —Lisa Wingate
“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Having my baby fall asleep in my arms takes away all of my worries and stresses. A sense of complete and total peace comes over me.” —Maria Jose Ovalle
“Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!” —Chinonye J. Chidolue
“When he finally was placed into my arms, I looked into his precious eyes and felt an overwhelming, unconditional love….I never felt so complete and empowered in my life.” —Gisele Bündchen
"It is the nature of babies to be in bliss." —Deepak Chopra
“For me, this baby was the most precious thing I had ever had. He was my treasure, my joy, my world, my everything now.” —Preeti Shenoy
“It is a smile of a baby that makes life worth living.” —Debasish Mridha
“Babies are such a nice way to start people.” — Don Herold
“Children have neither past nor future. They enjoy the present, which very few of us do.” —Jean De La Bruyere
“Sometimes the littlest things take up the most room in your heart.” —Winnie the Pooh
“I love you forever. I’ll like you for always. As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.” —Robert Munsch
“Every child begins the world again.” —Henry David Thoreau
“Babies are amazing. They begin each day all warm and sleepy, smelling of promise.” —Julia Roberts
"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." —Elizabeth Stone
"You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket." —Lish McBride
"Children bring us a piece of heaven on earth." —Roland Leonhardt
"The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority." —Olivia Wilde
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things — wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.” —Eda J. LeShan
“A baby is an inestimable blessing.” —Mark Twain
"Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.” —Penelope Leach
“Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.” —Arthur C. Coxe
“What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.” —Benjamin Spock
“Children reinvent your world for you.” —Susan Sarandon
“When the baby is born, all that pain that was endured vanishes in an instant. Love for that tiny baby makes one forget the pain, the fear. And as I’ve said before, love between mother and child is the highest experience, the closest to divine love.” —Hope Bradford
“I know now why God gave us babies. They require constant attention, of course. They make messes and disturb the peace, but their cuteness and smiles are sometimes the only reminder of God we have in the house.” —Ann Rinaldi
“Perfection only exists in babies and pastries.” —Gayle Wray
"My fingers are tickled to delight by the soft ripple of a baby’s laugh." —Helen Keller
“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.” —Hodding Carter Jr.
“Make no mistake about why these babies are here — they are here to replace us.” —Jerry Seinfeld
“A baby is born with a need to be loved — and never outgrows it.” —Frank A. Clark
“Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful.” —Charles Osgood
“I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time.” —Nicholas Sparks
“It’s a good thing babies don’t give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.” —Anita Diamant
“There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.” —Virginia Kelley
"Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky." — Fran Lebowitz
“A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out.” —Barbara Kingsolver
“I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.” —Charles Dickens
"Children make your life important." —Erma Bombeck
"A baby is a blank check made payable to the human race." —Barbara Christine Seifert

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It is so hard even to begin to describe how adorable babies are. Finding the right words can be a task as defining their level of cuteness can’t be done merely through words. You may need some external help at such times, so we have curated a list of baby quotes and sayings for you.

These quotes will help you relate at a deeper level, and you might be able to express how much you adore babies. Read on to learn more from these quotes about the adorable bundles of joy known as babies.

101 Cute Baby Quotes

Quotes about baby boys, baby girls, a baby’s smile or a mother and her baby – you name it, we have it.

Baby Girl Quotes

Your little princess is perhaps the closest to your heart. Short quotes for baby girls is the best way to convey your endearing love for her.

2. “She is everything that is perfect, wrapped in a tiny bundle.”

3. “A baby daughter is always a Daddy’s girl and Mommy’s world”!

4. “A baby girl is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous.”

5. “A baby girl is a giggle wrapped in the warmth of sunshine.”

6. “A baby girl always leaves a bit of sparkle and a bit of rainbow wherever she goes.”

8. “When you have a baby girl in your family, you realize that there is something far more precious than the most precious jewels.”

9. “Giggles, curls, ribbons, and bows! Our baby girl is so adorable from head to toe.”

10. “Baby girls are precious gifts, wrapped in love serene. Their dresses tied with sashes and baby’s future tied with dreams.”

11. “A baby girl is always a source of perpetual wonder for her parents.”

12. “A baby girl would dance her way into your heart, whirling on the tips of angel wings, scattering gold dust and kisses in your path.”

14. “A baby girl is a bundle of firsts that excite and delight; giggles that come from deep inside, always wonderful and precious… so much that your love for her knows no bounds.”

15. “No matter what the moment, a baby girl will always render sunshine in your life with her adorable smile .”

16. “There is no better feeling than watching your baby girl break into laughter.”

17. “It’s extraordinary to look into your baby girl’s face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit.”

18. “A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.” – George Eliot

20. “Baby girls are precious gifts like birds and brooks and streams…their hair is tied up with ribbons and bows…their hearts are tied up with dreams.”

Baby Boy Quotes

Adorable and even funny toddler quotes that let you say how much you love your little boy.

21. “His little hands stole my heart. His little feet ran away with it”!

22. “ Let him sleep , for when he wakes up, he will move mountains.”

23. “A baby boy may leave smudges in the house and also on your heart.”

Image: “Baby boys often seem like superheroes in disguise.”

25. “Baby boys have a pocket full of mischief and a saddle, always overflowing with joy and excitement.”

26. “A baby boy is a little miracle that you would like to share, an angel that you always handle with care.”

27. “Of all things that I held, my baby boy is the most beautiful and precious.”

28. “The excitement on the face of your baby boy is certainly the most exhilarating part of parenting.”

29. “Sometimes when I need a miracle, I look into my son’s eyes, and realize I have already created one.”

31. “You will love that little boy so very very much… even more than you love yourself. That little angel is what you call a son.”

32. “There has never been, nor there will ever be, anything quite special as the love and bond of motherhood between a mother and her baby son.”

33. “Your baby boy will hold your hand only for a little time, but he will hold your heart for a lifetime.”

34. “Little boy! You remind me how so much depends on what we make of the days now.”

35. “ Coos and gurgles , and chuckles. Suddenly your baby boy fills your life with these sounds that tug your heartstrings every time. These are the memories I’ll cherish forever.”

37. “A baby boy always is that anchor of your life, even through rough tides of life.”

38. “A baby boy is true with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair, and the hope and blessing of the future with a frog in its pocket.”

Baby Smile Quotes

A baby’s smile is pure, soulful, and the cutest thing ever! Use any of these cute baby quotes to share your love for your ever-smiling baby.

39. “When they finally place the baby in your arms and you notice that smile, you suddenly feel a surge of overwhelming, unconditional love that you never felt before.”

Image: “A baby’s laugh is like an angel’s voice!”

41. “The best feeling in the world is knowing that you are the one who made the baby smile.”

42. “It is a moment of pure ecstasy and satisfaction when you see a smile flicker on baby’s lips, just as they gently pass into a deep slumber.”

44. “All the sleepless nights make it worth the effort when you are rewarded with a baby’s adorable smile.”

45. “A baby’s smile can give you power… enough to even struggle through tears.”

Newborn Baby Quotes

Newborns are innocent charms, all in a tiny, cute package. Here are the best words to convey your joy and love about meeting an infant.

46. “A new baby marks the beginnings of all things – wonder, hope, and a beautiful dream of possibilities.”

Image: “There will never be a day like the day your baby is born.”

48. “Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.”

49. “From the moment you were placed in our arms, you snuggled your way into our hearts.”

51. “It’s an overwhelming moment where your entire life changes forever…for good. Babies are just so wonderful!”

52. “There’s really nothing quite so sweet as a newborn’s feet!”

53. “Having a baby is like having a bit of heaven right here on earth.”

54. “If I am thinking correctly… a new baby is probably, undoubtedly the grandest gift that could ever be.”

56. “On the day you were born, the angels clapped their hands and the moon danced with the stars.”

57. “In the eyes of a baby …there is joy, there is laughter… there is hope, there is trust, a chance to shape the future.”

58. “Cleaning and scrubbing can wait ’til tomorrow For babies grow up we’ve learned to our sorrow, So quiet down cobwebs and dust go to sleep, I’m rocking my baby, and babies don’t keep.”

59. “Babies are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.”

Mother And Baby Quotes

A mother and her baby share a special bond, and these quotes best capture its essence.

Image: “Becoming a mother is the moment when all of life’s battles suddenly seem worth fighting for…”

61. “A mother may hold her baby’s hand for a moment and their hearts for a lifetime.”

62. “I believe in love at first sight because I have loved my mom since I opened my eyes.”

63. “You may get all grown-up one day and leave the nursery, but in the heart of your Mama, you will always be the precious little baby I once held in my arms.”

64. “I am proud of many things in life but nothing beats being a mother.”

65. “You can outgrow a mother’s lap, but never her heart.”

67. “There is nothing sweeter in the world for a mother than the smell of her baby’s breath, happy coos, and gentle kisses .”

69. “All that a mother aspires is to love her babies a little more before they are not little anymore.”

70. “I always remind myself to hold on to the tiny moments and cherish the little snuggles. They grow up so fast.”

71. “I never knew I could love and care so much until the day I became a mother.”

73. “Life comes a full circle when you see for yourself the new life you made.”

74. “Once in mommy’s tummy, for now in mommy’s lap, but forever in mommy’s heart… That’s how precious my baby you are”!

75. “A mother’s joy begins when new life is stirring inside… when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the very first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.”

76. “Babies are bits of stardust blown from the hand of God. Lucky is the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star.”

77. “When they placed you in Mommy’s arms, you fell straight into my heart and there will always be a place for you there forever.”

Cute Baby Quotes

“A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.”
“Ten little fingers, ten perfect toes, fill our hearts with love and happiness that overflows.”
“Precious one, so small, so sweet. Dancing in on angel’s feet. Straight from heaven’s brightest star. What a miracle you truly are.”
“Fairy tales can come true. Look at us we had you.”
“Babies are born with no baggage. They begin their lives without a care in the world. And this innocence and sense of wonder is what makes them amazing.”
“My precious one, so small and sweet. Dancing on an angel’s feet. You are straight from heaven’s brightest star. What a lovely miracle you truly are.”
“No one else knows the strength of my love for you. After all, you are the only one who knows what my heart sounds from the inside.”
Cherish every moment and many milestones for the adorable little snuggles do not last very long.

Short Baby Quotes

“A baby’s smile is an antidote to melt your day’s stress away.”
“A baby’s grin has so much magic that you barely realize that it is a toothless smile!”
“A baby’s cry is heaven’s anguish, but their smile is the heaven’s joy.”
“Baby – A little bit of heaven sent down to earth.”
“Your little feet, make the biggest footprints in our hearts.”
“A baby fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.”

Funny Baby Quotes

“So there’s this boy. He kinda stole my heart. He calls me Mom.”
“Baby boys are God’s way of telling you that your house is too neat!”
“Sleeplessness is a contagious disease that often transmits from babies to parents.”
“People who say they sleep like a baby probably never had a baby themselves.”
“Babies can teach you a lot of things. Patience is among the most important of them.”
“Babies are mini-tyrants. They decide when you eat, sleep, and whether you go to work today or stay captive at home.”

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How can baby quotes and sayings help new parents cope with the challenges of parenting?

Baby quotes encapsulate the emotions and feelings of a new parent. These quotes conjure feelings of immense love and care along with parents’ challenges. Thus, they may help parents go through the hard days and remind them of the good and lovely rewards of parenting a child.

2. How can baby quotes and sayings be used in creating personalized gifts for new parents?

Baby quotes are creative and interesting ways of expressing joy for new parents. These quotes can be written on greeting cards, sweet notes on gifts, or calligraphed and gifted as a frame. The new parents would definitely treasure this gift for the rest of their lives.

3. How have modern technology and social media influenced the popularity of baby quotes and sayings?

Baby quotes have become widely popular throughout social media. These quotes are often used by parents and the newborn’s family members to express joy or the birth announcement. Parents also use these quotes to introduce their little ones to the world virtually, which has become a cute trend quite popular on the internet.

Beautiful baby quotes and sayings help you express how you feel about your little one. You may use these captions for baby girl and baby boy on the pictures you upload on your social media handles. Choosing quotes about a baby girl or boy according to your baby’s gender can also make the lines more personal. There are various quotes mentioning sleepy babies, playing babies, etc. You may choose the one that suits your baby the best. Sharing quotes about how your baby changed your world can also be wonderful. What’s your favorite quote about babies? Do share with us in the comment section below.

Infographic: Thoughtful Baby Quotes

You can never have enough of these cute and sweet baby quotes. No matter how many you may read, your feelings and emotions for your little one seem to surpass all quotes and phrases. So here are a few more thoughtful and heartfelt quotes for your little bundle of joy.

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Celebrate the arrival of a precious one with delightful baby quotes and sayings.
These quotes enclose themes such as new beginnings, innocence, and the joy a newborn brings.
Use these sayings on greeting cards for a newborn or share them during your child’s naming ceremony.
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A New Born Baby

An infant is the most vulnerable being on earth and it is this vulnerability that makes it so endearing. A human baby, with its large head and tiny body is a wonderful creation. A new born baby is as helpless and as adorable as a baby can possibly get.

When I first saw a new born baby, just a few hours after his birth, I was disappointed. Everyone was going gaga over his beauty and I was giving polite smiles as well while wondering what people saw that I could not see. Shocking, isn’t it? Actually, I was young myself and the babies we see in pictures and movies are almost always more than a month or two old. When the baby is new born, no matter how healthy he is. he is still frail and hairy, face covered with red, wrinkly skin, a pointed rather than rounded head and looks best when swaddled. His hands and feet are small but bony and for a person who has seen chubby well fed kids, seeing a new born is a huge contrast. It is only after a month of care, that he starts blossoming and becomes the bundle of joy one is used to admiring.

The next time I saw a new born baby was when I had one myself and what a handsome little baby I had! Mothers will he mothers!

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A popular saying goes like this ‘children of today are citizens of tomorrow’. Our children are torch-bearers to the future and hence it’s very essential to impart good and quality education to them.

Children receive knowledge from schools and apply the same knowledge when they enter the world of opportunities.

Character building and fine tuning their skills is very essential to make them future ready and prepare the leaders of tomorrow.

Parents want the best for their children. Every parent dreams of their children to make it big in the future and shine their parents’ name in some way or the other.

Parents never leave a stone untouched to make them realize their dreams. Parents strive hard to provide the best for their children, be it education, clothes, co-curricular activities or talent building.

All that they look for is the best chances of their children emerging out of the shell to make a difference to the world.

Generally, when married couples turn parents for the first time, they realize they have a whole new responsibility in their lives, which is exciting and satisfying when fulfilled.

Children are the whole and soul of a family and every member gets fresh energy in their blood when a new member arrives in the family.

A small baby is treated next to god and every little care is provided to the baby on its arrival in the family.

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Boys and Girls in the Family

Previously, our society was very conservative in its thinking and approaches. People were not much educated when our country got independence.

A new revolution started only when people gradually started realizing the value of education in their lives. Until then, the society viewed girl babies with a biased view.

New arrival of a boy baby was celebrated with much pomp and show, while a girl baby that arrived was treated as some kind of unwanted burden in the family.

While the boy baby was given proper education and all his demands met, the girl hardly had any opportunity to step out of the house and speak freely of what she wants or what she thinks.

The boy baby was viewed as a future asset for the family, the future care-taker of the family, hence all attention and importance was given to him.

The girl baby was seen as some kind of responsibility, who always needed some protection in the form of her father or brother till she got married.

Once she was married, this responsibility was passed on in the hands of her husband and later her son would take care of her in the later stages of her life.

This kind of perception existed for decades together till education and modern thinking paved way for reforms in our society. When a baby girl was born, she was doomed in the society and nobody celebrated her arrival.

The baby girl was made to learn all the household duties, even when she would be a small girl, and even when she wouldn’t be big enough, she would be married off, much against her own wishes.

The families she belonged to, would never care of her dreams or aspirations, but would always perceive her as a burden on their heads, till they got rid of her in marriage.

She would be taught cooking, cleaning the house, respecting the leaders, tending to household duties and taking care of the husband at a very young age.

All talks around her in her maternal home would revolve around these care taking responsibilities that she would soon feel as though she was born to be locked inside her own world. She would never have any opportunities to express herself.

Girls in Modern day Society

Times have certainly changed now. Girls no longer sit at home to hone their skills in home making alone.

Parents are educated in modern days; they realize the importance and significance of educating their girl child. Most importantly, the perception of viewing a girl child as some sort of a burden.

The world around us now realizes that, just like boys, even girl children need to be well educated. Parents realize the need of educating their girl child in order to make her independent and make her stand on her own feet. Educating the girl child is very essential in modern times.

Girls are treated equally to boys in all spheres of life. They are provided equal opportunities to shine in every field. At many places, organizations encourage girls in particular to enroll for their courses and pursue higher education.

We see active participation of women and girls, be it at the job front, in politics, in decision making policies etc.

This change in perception was possible due to the educated society that no longer respects hardcore, unacceptable traditions and norms and strictly dishonors them.

People who do not encourage girls or are against women empowerment are looked down upon by the society and treated as not fitting into modern thinking.

There are many people who are opting to adopt baby girls against the predominant adoption rate of boys and this clearly shows a change in people’s perception and thinking. People have broadened their viewpoints and see girls as responsible adults of the future.

They are given equal rights in the family and their views are considered with equal importance. Parents focus on the education of their daughters and encourage them to take part in extracurricular activities.

We can see little girls taking part in music, dance, instrumental learning, sports activities and excelling in many more such related fields.

All this was made possible by a change brought out in the society by educated youth, people who accepted modernization as a way of living, people who started going away from traditional mind sets to accept new changes in the society.

All this created a new flexible environment for girls to blossom from their buds and showcase their skills, be it in their schools / colleges, workplace, in fine arts and in every walk of life.

Girls and their Multitasking Roles

When a girl baby is born in a house, she is welcomed as the daughter of the house. As she grows up, she becomes more known to the society around her, playing the roles of a student in her learning days.

As she moves on to her workplace, she dons the role of an employee at her organization and puts in her dedication and commitment to achieve her goals.

As she further moves into her matrimonial abode, she becomes a wife for her husband, a daughter-in- law to her in-laws, a mother to her kids and many other roles inside the family.

The woman of the house does multi tasking by donning the role of a perfect home maker when at home, doing all the duties of the kitchen, taking on responsibilities of her husband’s well being, looking after the kids and caring for her in-laws. With this, she also has to take responsibility and care for her own aged parents.

When she is outside at her workplace, she has to concentrate on her work and fulfill duties assigned by her management.

A baby girl is bestowed with all the blessings from her family to become a responsible adult in the future that would make her a successful woman in the society.

The government has made it mandatory to provide girls education in all parts of the country.

The government, also through its publicity campaigns encourages the girl child by providing families with daughters, special schemes for their future financial planning.

Steps to save the girl child and prevention of crimes against the girl child have been of top priority to the government and such measures are being implemented with high effectiveness.

The society is whole heartedly receiving these measures as a torch bearer for change in the society. Anti abortion laws have made it very strict regarding saving the girl child and maintaining the female ratio in the population.

Our population is pre dominantly male and in a male dominated society, women are often looked down upon in all decision making systems.

The society still needs to change in many ways to make the society more women- friendly and the men of the house should come forward with open minds to accept new changes in society.

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Best Newborn Baby Captions to Introduce Them to the World

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Being a parent is one of the happiest feelings in the world. The arrival of a little one in your inner circle is a joyous occasion for you and your extended family of relatives and friends. No wonder you want to tell them your good news as soon as the baby is born! The best way to do so these days is by posting it on social media so that all your family and friends will get the good news instantly and together, with just one post. That’s why we’re bringing you a curated list of beautiful newborn photo captions, with plenty of captions so you can select a perfect caption for newborn baby!

Here is the list of the best newborn baby captions to introduce your little one. You can choose one that best suits your personality or expresses your happiness. Make a personalised welcome caption for the newborn baby by adding the little one’s name. Pick the best caption for baby girl and boy from this amazing list:

1. “Our world has become a better place with a new member.” 2. “Baby (name) was eager to meet us and arrived early!” 3. “Here comes the sunshine of our family!” 4. “Our little one has arrived to add giggles to our lives.” 5. “You will be the mark that I will be leaving in the world.” 6. “My new world starts with you.” 7. “Welcome, my heart and soul.” 8. “God has given His piece of heaven to me.” 9. “Proud to announce that I am the mother/father of this bundle of joy!” 10. “Our family is now complete.” 11. “Happiness is born in our home!” 12. “A perfect gift wrapped in love has been put in my arms.” 13. “(Name) fills my life with happiness and good luck.” 14. “Thank you for choosing us as your parents!” 15. “The most beautiful flower has bloomed in the garden of my life.” 16. “This one has touched us with love.” 17. “Welcome to your new world, (name).” 18. “A huge miracle in such a tiny person!” 19. “Here’s my baby’s first selfie!” 20. “Keep calm, our baby has arrived.” 21. “Our Christmas gift has arrived early!” 22. “It’s official! Our baby (name) has arrived!” 23. “The snuggle is real. Meet our cuddly new family member, (baby name).” 24. “We dreamt it, and it’s now a reality.” 25. “A new star comes to the planet.”

Here are some of the best captions to tell the world about your newborn baby boy:

1. “Introducing Mr. (name) as a super boy!” 2. “Our homemade product has turned out so handsome!” 3. “The star of the sky has landed in my arms. That’s you, my baby boy!” 4. “My superhero is born today.” 5. “I am going to love him today, tomorrow, and forever.” 6. “Hey, world! Please welcome the new heartthrob of the girls.” 7. “Hey, boy, you will always be the hero of my life.” 8. “My cute baby boy reminds me of how much love is still there in the world.” 9. “My little man has taken my heart away.” 10. “The second man who has stolen my heart is my son.”

Some captions for you to tell the world about your cute baby girl are:

1. “This baby girl is the miracle of my life.” 2. “I see the moon and star in your wide grin, sweetheart.” 3. “My little princess has made me a queen/king today.” 4. “My darling daughter has made my life a happy place.” 5. “My mother thought I was the cutest in the family. You proved her wrong.” 6. “Nothing could be more adorable than my sweet angel.” 7. “Introducing to the world, the queen of all the sweetie pies in the world.” 8. “It’s not just a girl. It’s a super girl who’s arrived at our home.” 9. “I have my precious jewel, and will always keep her safe.” 10. “Here’s a new princess in town. Want to meet her?”

Parents’ joy doubles when they are blessed with twins or multiple babies. Some captions to express the happiness of parents for twins and multiple babies are:

1. “Introducing my sun and moon to the world.” 2. “Double fun, double happiness, and double love!” 3. “We asked for one gift. God has blessed us with (number).” 4. “Welcome, my beautiful daughter and a handsome son. Can the world get better than this?” 5. “Our family is not big. It has become bigger.” 6. “Welcome the new prince and princess in town.” 7. “Happy to experience double the fun and half the sleep!” 8. “We were planning for one miracle. God blessed us with two.” 9. “Now we know why more is merrier!” 10. “Fortunate to be blessed with a big bundle of cuteness.”

Frame these sweet captions about your newborn in your social media posts.

“Will be delighted about milk.”
“A sweet smile, but else, ugh!”
“Our energy sources in this house are love, coffee, and baby giggles.”
“This infant and a limitless coffee cup are all I need in life.”
“As long as there is milk, they continue to live happily ever after.”
“It’s a big deal for a little package!”
“There is a new boss at work. He thrives on love, and we thrive on coffee.”
“Free, sobbing, and stinky things are the nicest things in life.”
“Champion cuddler from the start.”
“Happy child, happy vibes.”

Sweet captions for pictures are more than required. These captions will make you fall in love with your child’s picture.

“Now we understand why more is indeed better.”
“Double enjoyment, double joy, and twofold affection.”
“We prayed for one gift, and God granted us ‘you’ in return.”
“Welcoming the world to my sun and moon.”
“Our family has grown, but it is not large.”
“Lucky to have a large bundle of sweetness as a blessing.”
“I didn’t realise the suffering would be worth this amazing gift from God.”
“I pledge to hold your hands forever, new love.”
“Your grin is all I need to make my day happy.”
“I cried when giving birth to you. But I’m confident I’ll always be content as long as you’re here.”

Instagram is the trendiest platform for uploading pictures, but finding the right caption for each one of them is also important. Here are some captions on Instagram to welcome your newborn baby into this wonderful world.

“Going to be a wonderful mom.”
“My superhero is born today.”
“Don’t worry, champ I will be there for you always.”
“I believe you will make me proud one day.”
“Children are naughty, but mine is the naughtiest.”
“Maybe your journey will be tough, my baby, but you must go through it and learn from it.”
“When you came into this world, I was the one who cried because I love you more than anyone.”
“I would rather be a friend than a strict mom to my children.”
“A new member is about to come.”
“Keep calm my baby is coming.”

Some cute newborn social media captions are:

1. “There is no better feeling in the world than holding your precious child.” 2. “Of all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you.” 3. “The first day of your life was the best day of mine.” 4. “Your first breath took ours away.” 5. “The sweetest little part of destiny.” 6. “Happiness is homemade.” 7. “A child is the most beautiful gift this world has to give.” 8. “Twinkle, twinkle, little star, do you know how loved you are?” 9. “Last name: ‘Ever,’ first name: ‘Cutest’!” 10. “Words can not express the joy of a new life.” 11. “You’re my favorite reason to lose sleep.” 12. “Blessed to have this little one holding my hands.” 13. “Sometimes, the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts.” 14. “I want to take every single step of yours with you.” 15. “After having you, we need nothing more from the universe.” 16. “Our cheerful, bouncing baby has entered the world.” 17. “You came like a sunrise.” 18. “This little one is our entry pass to the Parents Club.” 19. “My baby has made me a powerful mother/father.” 20. “Our sequel is released!” 21. “Such a big miracle in such a small person.” 22. “Look out, world — (baby name) has arrived!” 23. “We have grown by two feet. Excited!” 24. “Isn’t it love at first sight? It sure is!” 25. “Dream big, little one.” 26. “Nobody else but you matters more.” 27. “His/her first breath took ours away. Meet (baby name).” 28. “The Force (of Cuteness) is strong in this one.” 29. “Thank you for choosing me.” 30. “Our lovely little champ has arrived.” 31. “You are my definition of perfection.” 32. “You are what I would define as perfection.” 33. “The littlest feet make the biggest footprints in our hearts.” 34. “Your first breath has taken mine away.” 35. “Thanks for promoting me to Parent!” 36. “A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” 37. “A new baby is like the beginning of all things.” 38. “My baby makes my world wonderful.” 39. “Behold, children are a gift of the Lord.” 40. “Here to make the world a cuter and happier place.” 41. “Dreams do come true! Meet (baby name).” 42. “You can outgrow a mother’s lap, but never her heart.” 43. “I will teach you everything I can.” 44. “Welcome the new superstar in our family!” 45. ”Your little fingers and perfect toes fill our hearts with love that overflows.”

In today’s world, all personal news is shared with family and friends via social media. So, choose the best caption to share your good news with your near and dear ones!

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