Does anyone else look at their baby

[amazedmummy]

And just feel amazed?
DS is 7 weeks and he blows my mind. I made a person! A whole person with thoughts and feelings. A person who will have aspirations and his own whole little life. I just imagine all the things he'll do and find it absolutely incredible that I made him! I mean sure DH played his biological part but I put in the hard slog. He's becoming a right wee smiler and it's just starting to hit me that I haven't just had a tiny baby but he'll keep developing and one day he'll be a grown man.

Yep. It's brilliant isn't it.

Mine are 5 and 2. I still look at them and marvel that I grew them inside me, made them out of pretty much nothing.

Yep, my ds is 17 months and I'm like that all the time.
Me daily: "look at his beautiful face!"

Mine's a big hairy loloping 20yo and I'm still amazed at what we created.

It’s such a wonderful thing isn’t it

Mine is 2.5 weeks - I’m obsessed. I can’t stop looking at him in total awe. I didn’t know it was possible to love anything this much 😍😍😍

Yes mine is ten months old and we had a moment like this just now as I put him down.

Mine are 4 and 6 and sometimes the feeling of ‘oh my God I made these amazing little humans’ just hits me

I don’t think it ever goes away. My heart explodes with joy every time I look at or even think about my babies. They are 20 months and 3 months.

Mine are in their twenties and thirties. It is beyond fantastic to go out for a riotous evening with these people and to have it suddenly come home to me that these people are made from me!

Two of them are accountants. i don't know where I went wrong with them...

DD is 4,and I think is absolutely amazing (have to stop telling her she'll get big headed!)

I have an almost 16 year old who towers over me and I still feel that way. I can remember clear as day wondering about the person he'd be when he grew up, what he'd look like etc and bam - here we are and I wonder where the years went. I am continually astounded that this witty, clever, noisy, caring young man came from me!

Yes, it's amazing. Mine are 11 and 8 now but I remember being amazed that I'd made functioning people. Particularly DDs knee/hip/ankle flexing when changing nappies, seemed like a miracle.

Yes mine are 4 and 2 and it still amazes me to think that I actually made them! I often lay next to them in bed when there sound asleep and just stare at their little faces in amazement! I don’t think that feeling will ever go away.

Yes!

Last night I was looking at my 5 year old daughter sleeping and I couldn't believe my rubbishy/mismatched/wonky genes made something so anatomically perfect. She is absolutely beautiful and so so clever (I know I’m biased but objectively she really is classically beautiful) and looks nothing at all like me thankfully. This feeling of amazement has been compounded by having a miscarriage recently. It has really highlighted the fragile lottery that conceiving and growing a baby is. If this perfect specimen of a human is the only thing I ever achieve in life, I will die a happy old (hopefully old!!) lady!

I've been struggling with PND so I'm only just really noticing how amazing this all is.

When mine were tiny I could lose hours and hours just gazing at them, and still consider it time well spent!

Yes it’s so amazing. My 2 year old is just starting to talk properly and I’m amazed by him all the time just coming out with things he’s thought of.

Yes. I love looking at my daughter, she’s so beautiful and stubborn. She started singing Edelweiss to me last night which was lovely as I sing it to her every bedtime.
My little boy is adopted and every time I look at him I think how much of a miracle it is that he is alive. He went through so much in utero- that when ever he learns anything new I just get such a rush of pride. He is doing so well despite everything his little body has been through. He is so funny and loving it just makes me well up.
Lovely post.

i tell my three children all the time how they were made and how they have heard my heart nesting as they grew ready to be born inside me. They are 2, almost 4 and almost 6
My oldest likes to recall the day he was born and the heartbeat story on nights where he can’t sleep. When I tell him I still see him seconds after he entered the works and changed my life forever in that split second

You are right to feel amazed at your baby
You are right to feel amazed by yourself

I am not a religious person, but the three times I gave birth the feeling that there was something miraculous and precious about life was palpable.

Recently had DC3, still as amazing as the first time!

It gets more amazing. I have a 12 year old girl with strong opinions who is clever, complicated, difficult and challenging but also beautiful, very funny and popular. In 12 years she has gone from tiny baby to adult sized. She is taller than lots of my friends. The 9 year old is catching up fast, I wish we had more of them.

Mine is 50 this year. Despite the fact i have no idea how that happened , the time, not the act. i still get "that" feeling. How did I possibly make this grown woman?

I still recall the first time we met. I was lucky, I looked at her and fell in love

A love that has lasted 50 years.

On my side, at least. I know I've tried her patience over the last few years. Health stuff in my part has made me more impatient than I ought to be.

But she is still as lovely and as loving as she ever was.

Enjoy it, OP. And I hope your love affair lasts as long as mine

@user that put a lump in my throat!! How lovely that we will get to experience this same feeling in 50 years (in my case if I make it to 90! Lol).

I already drive my 5 year old crazy. I’m sure she already thinks I’m a daft old woman...

You have just made me shed a tear!
They are amazing- miracles!!