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for the most part, a baby is a blob with no personality.

Not mine. I am so sorry for you if that was your experience.

Not mine. I am so sorry for you if that was your experience.

Sorry - not trying to insult yours or anyone else's baby. But at least as far as I'm concerned, it takes at least some weeks or months before I can discern a real personality in a baby. In less attractive terms, a blob with no personality. I don't see this as an insult or degrading - and not a literal insult. More like when John Houseman in the The Paper Chase tells the L1s that they come in here "with a skull full of mush." He doesn't really mean that they have skulls full of mush, and I don't really meant that the baby is a blob, but that's the type of language some of use to describe aspects of the personality we are referring to. In other words, it's meant to be more of a humorous description than an insulting reference. At least as far as I'm concerned.