Not being a "baby person"

I'm not a "baby person."  I think other people's babies are cute, but I'm not dying to hold them or play with them.  Sometimes I forget to offer to let other people hold my babies because I forget that most people, unlike me, actually like to hold other people's babies.  Sometimes I'm taken off guard when people offer to let me hold their babies because it's not something I was wanting to do, although I don't mind.

Not being a baby person hasn't kept me from being madly in love with my own kids.  I love cuddling, hugging, and kissing my babies.  I love the smell of my babies when they're not perfectly clean - there's no sweeter smell to me than that mixture of baby sweat, baby saliva, and milk.  (Only on my own babies, though - I prefer clean, Johnson & Johnson soap smell on other babies not my own.)

Anyway, I wonder how being a baby person affects one's parenting and parenting skills.  Do baby people have better maternal instincts?  Does it even matter?  I'm crazy about my kids, so I don't think I would love them any more if I were a baby person, but maybe I would interact with them differently.

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