Why I Don't Knit For Babies

I really love yarn, and I really love to knit.  I especially love to knit and give things to people who I know will at least semi-appreciate them.  Mostly scarves, hats and fingerless gloves with the occasional knitted gnome or bookmark thrown in for good measure.  If I know you, chances are you have something I've knit already or I've got something on the needles for you right now.

With the exception of babies.

Babies throw up on things.  That rotten milk, chunky white baby barf.  It's gross.  They also pull their socks off, like, a lot.  They don't like to wear hats, and if they will leave one on their head for longer than 30 seconds, their heads aren't the same size for very long.  They have sensitive skin, picky and opinionated parents, possible allergies that no one has figured out yet and if they are still young enough to enjoy being swaddled, those little cotton/flannel blankets you can get at Target in a 4-pack do a much better job than anything I can knit ever will. 

Plus, I don't really know a whole lot of babies.

Plus, I don't really like holding other people's babies, and if I start knitting for them this seems like an inevitability.

Plus, and this is the MAIN reason here,honestly I just think handknit stuff on kids looks silly.

I'm sure there are counter arguments to every one of my points, but honestly, I don't really care enough.  I just don't knit for babies, simple as that, for the reasons stated.  If it's your thing then that's awesome and I'm happy for you, but my thing is more "stuff I like myself and hope my peers will like as well".   It works for me.