# Holding your own baby vs. holding someone else's baby

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holding-your-own-baby-vs-holding-someone-elses-baby/801696>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 15, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holding-your-own-baby-vs-holding-someone-elses-baby/801696 "2017-11-15T17:01:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holding-your-own-baby-vs-holding-someone-elses-baby/801696/41 "2017-11-19T00:55:06Z")

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I love babies, you got a baby? I will hold it. But holding my nevvies for the first time? That was something special!

Plus also, **Shodan**? You really need to be careful about the dust you’re kicking up _sniff_

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holding-your-own-baby-vs-holding-someone-elses-baby/801696/42 "2017-11-19T12:38:54Z")

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> [@janis\_and\_c0](#):
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> I love babies, you got a baby? I will hold it. But holding my nevvies for the first time? That was something special!

Same here. I particularly like them when they’re really tiny — newborns. But when my niece had her first it was more personal, more special. And she’s having her second kid very verysoon and I should fly out for a week or so. Watch the older kid to take up some slack, watch both so she and the husband-person can have some quality time, etc.

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**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holding-your-own-baby-vs-holding-someone-elses-baby/801696/43 "2017-11-19T14:23:36Z")

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I like babies, but there is something special about your own.

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