What do you think the first thing a baby is thinking about when it comes from the womb?

It’s probably pure instinct. Like wanting to be in mom’s arms – partly to simply identify her and because it’s going to want food soon.

AHHH! That’s not amnionic fluid!

don’t poop on me, bitch.

As far as I understand it, psychologists and linguists believe that babies don’t actually have conscious “thoughts” until they begin to understand language, which occurs around the time they can actually speak, slightly sooner than the first real words. As drastic suggests, before comprehension of language, they have only instincts, impulses, etc.

Holy shit is it cold out here!

It probably boils down to “comfortable” or “not comfortable,” not a thought but just an awareness of a state without any focused consciousness. If uncomfortable, cry. Then something will happen to make you not-hungry. not-wet, not-startled, and not-hurting.

AHHH BRIGHT LIGHTS!!! AHHHH IT’S COLD!!! WAAHHHHH I WANT TO BE WARM AND COMFORTABLE AGAIN!!!!

well,when the father is holding the baby,the baby goes for the front pocket,indicating it wants money,haha thats in some asian cultures

coldcoldcoldcoldwaaaaaaaaaahhh!!!

If it’s a boy: “Ooh, I gotta get back into one of those…double time!”

Whys it so dry out here?

“hey mom, it’s called ‘a brazilian’.”

*looks up, “woah, i can’t wait to get back in one of those!”

Okay okay guys, we get it. You never
grow up. Ew. Get away from me.

Thank God I had a choice and a smart mommy.

nice beaver ma

Put me back. Right now. It’s cold and bright and loud out here. I mean it. No, really. If you don’t, I’ll cry!

I remember reading that infants are not particularly sensitive to temperature and that it is mostly for the mother’s comfort that we put all those little sweaters and blankets on them.

@Jeruba That’s true. I had to fight with my mother and MIL because they constantly wanted to bury my first child under layers of clothes. She was born at the end of JUNE!

@augustlan My brother was actually born in Japan and my mother said that little old Japanese women would walk up to them and start taking off his layers and saying “baby hot!” because they don’t bundle up their babies the way that we do in the west.

In my case it was “Who the hell was that other guy in there and what did he have to eat?”

When is dinner