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I'm not a baby person either. I'm not the type to want to hold a friend's baby and coo over it. I would rather just look at the baby from a distance lol. I like toddlers much more, even with their tantrums. I feel like I can play with them and do more fun things with them.

No, I am no a baby person AT ALL. The newborn days were pure hell for me and I'm not excited about reliving them. People always say that if you aren't a kid person that it will be different when it's your kids..but it's not!

I was totally a baby person before I had one. I loved holding other people's babies and could do it for hours. Loved baby pictures, smiling and cooing at them... And when it was my baby I loved that part too- but not the colicky screaming gassy up all night part.

But as she's grown I've realized how much more I like the stages that come after. Pretty much everything @twodoghouse: just said.

I think "baby people" often don't have their own babies and just get to help out their friends or family with new babies and then go home and sleep through the night in their own bed.

I'm a total baby person. Yes, it's super hard when it's your own. But I still want to coo at and cuddle all my friends new babies. I just love them. I literally have to refrain from asking to hold strangers babies I love them so much. I was actually worried that I wouldn't like my own kids as much once they started growing up because other peoples kids start to get on my nerves once they hit about 5 years old, but now that I have my own toddler I know that's nothing to worry about since I love her even when she is driving me bonkers.

Totally. I adore having a baby. I also really like having a toddler so 2 under 2 is kind of a happy spot for me. It's hard hard hard. But this is my favorite phase of life. At the end of everyday when I take time to meditate and evaluate my personal state of being I always find an underlying feeling g of pure contentment and happiness no matter how hard the day.

I've never been a baby person - to the point where I used to find something to do somewhere else in the office when colleagues brought their baby into work! I totally thought it would be different when it was my own baby but it wasn't! Babies are boring. Toddlers are awesome (if only they would sleep!).

@meredithNYC: Could not agree more! I hate wishing away my daughter's babyhood (she'll be 2 months next week), but I am SO not a newborn person. I just love how my almost 3 year old can talk to me, tell me what's wrong, etc. I told someone yesterday that I can't wait to go back to work and they looked at me like I had seven heads. Oops

I found out fast with LO1 that I am not a baby person. I was dreading the newborn stage with LO2 but I've found that I like it more the 2nd time around. Granted we're only 3 weeks in. He is much calmer and no signs of colic yet. I'm also in a better place knowing that this stage is short and he'll grow so fast. I've found that I talk to him so much more than I talked to LO1 since I'm thinking of him more as my kid-to-be than as a newborn blob. Maybe I'll be a baby person after all.

YES, I've realized I am a total baby person!!!!
I loved the NB stage and loving every stage so G's up to 6 months where we are now!!!!

@Truth Bombs: exactly this. I love everyone's babies and young toddlers but often find older kids to be annoying. And while the infant stage was really hard, I loved it and am looking forward to the next one.

I dunno. I definitely enjoy interacting with my son more now that he's almost 3, but I definitely look back on the newborn/baby days with fuzzy nostalgia...but I think I've just mentally rewritten how hard it was I feel like I'm struggling a lot now, though, with the newly found independence and defiance and attitude. I'm exhausted!

D is definitely not a baby person. He loved E, of course, but he definitely got more involved the older and more interactive he got. He says he's looking forward to like age 5 (he used to work in a daycare and said that class was his favorite age group...)

I guess in this context, I would say I am a total baby person! I have no problem holding babies, I love cooing and playing with babies, and just cuddling with them. BUT, for myself... after I became a mom... I could not wait to get out of the baby stage! So, I do love babies... but they are hard work, and I prefer the toddler and beyond stages so much more!

@BabyBoecksMom: This is why I'm more open to a third! I have a almost 4 month old but the thought of her being my last baby is too much for me to handle! I definitely am spoiling her more than I did DD1 because I know she might be my last baby!

I'm not. When I hear of "baby person" I imagine these ladies who insist on hogging babies. I've known a few in churches growing up.

@LuLu Mom: I went through the same thing, but DH got the snip to make sure that I couldn't talk him into a 3rd when I got baby fever again LOL

I just love to procreate. Babies, toddlers, kids.....I love them all! ALL THE BABIEZ!!!!!!!!

I love my baby and would love to have another but have no interest in holding or entertaining, cleaning up, feeding, someone else's baby. I mean, I'll gladly do it with love for a friend, but it's not something I would just do because I love to do it.

I love toddlers, preschoolers and kids though. I love to draw with them, talk to them, play sports with them, etc. I love that.

I am a baby person but only with my own...other people's babies are hard! I'm not with them constantly so their coos and cries are like a foreign language to me. I know when mine need a snuggle or milk or sleep, etc.!

I do love looking at other babies and holding them! But otherwise, I like older kids better. I think 5 is my favorite age. I can understand them, and play, make them laugh, and they aren't super emotional like toddlers!

Total baby person here! Good thing I work in NICU so I get my baby fix in between my own babies When I have my own babies, I am not interested in any others though!