Is this normal? DS is 11 months and I often feel just overwhelmed with emotion about how I feel about him. I have points most days when I'm in tears with how much I feel I love him. Sometimes it's in bed (we co-sleep) or when I'm comfort feeding him after he's hurt himself, but often it's just random.
I don't know whether long term sleep deprivation is a compounding factor, or hormones (he's bf). It feels like the hormonal weepiness I had in pregnancy. I am a fairly emotional person and I do cry easily.
I sometimes worry that I must be a bit odd - other people don't give the impression that they feel like this about their LOs (but maybe I don't to outsiders though).
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AngelDog · 09/12/2010 20:31
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PressureDrop ·
09/12/2010 20:34
I think it's totally normal. I feel like this about both my children, and they are 5 and 2 and haven't been bf-ed for a long time (and both sleep well...now). I come over all teary probably once a day 
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Motherhood can be overwhelming.
InmaculadaConcepcion ·
10/12/2010 08:32
I don't get tearful as often as that, but I do know exactly where you're coming from.
AngelDog you're lovely
Flossie69 ·
10/12/2010 11:16
My DD is 7 months, has been FF from the start and sleeps well. At least once a day I look at her and am overwhelmed at how much I love her. And I almost can't believe I have been so blessed. If I think back to her birth and the first time I saw her, it still brings me to tears. Sometimes I think my heart will pop, there is so much emotion.
And I find it very difficult to read threads about loss involving babies...
I would also say that at 7 months, for me, these feelings are still building, rather than abating.
sneakapeak ·
10/12/2010 19:18
It scares the shit out of me!
I have a 3.5 yr old DS and a 1 (next week) yr old DD.
I was just thinking tonight I have never ever regretted having them it was the best think I could have decided to do BUT....
I wish I could go back to feeling less worry. I live in fear of anything happening to them and I feel sick at the thought of them being out and about without me when they are older - shudder.
I have to say though, I felt as anxious/teary/emotional with DS when he was a baby but it calmed down a little arounf 10 months (I fed him until 5 months).
With DD I am still feeding her and im praying hormones have something to do with it and it will calm down, fingers crossed!
Flossie69 ·
10/12/2010 21:33
Sometimes I kiss my DD and then smell her, and I could almost eat her! I try not to do it too much when I am hungry.......
AngelDog ·
10/12/2010 22:58
IC! I wondered where you'd gone - PDog, Curly & I had missed your presence over in Sleep.
Flossie, your post brought a tear to my eye too. All of the above describe perfectly how I feel. It's been getting steadily stronger for me too rather than easing off, although it didn't really start until he was a few months old (I was too busy surviving the sleep issues before that!)
I've always been a practical, unsentimental type (or so I thought! 
) so this has taken me by surprise a bit.
I love to smooth my chin or cheek over his head of soft hair. When he cuddles up to me in bed with his little hand clutching my top
I wish it were a more useful feeling, though, as it doesn't stop me getting annoyed with DS at other times (like when he bit me really hard on the arm this afternoon).
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