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What was the best day of your life?

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Beekeepersmum · 23/07/2025 21:21

I feel like a lot of people say it was their wedding day, or the day their kids were born.

My wedding day was amazing, but all it really was was a bit of a party to formalise our relationship.

The day my eldest child was born wasn’t a great day, I had a horrible labour, EMCS and have been diagnosed with PTSD. The day my youngest was born was much better, but it just kind of felt like an anticlimax.

I think the best day of my life might have been Saturday just gone. Me, my DH and DC had a morning playing in the garden, then went to the local airport to watch planes taking off. It was exactly how I’d always envisioned family life, and I was so content the whole day.

What was your best day ever?

(NC as this has been quite outing!)

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Testingthetimes · 25/07/2025 22:09

SweetFancyMoses · 24/07/2025 09:25

One of my best days was definitely the day my youngest was born. When I popped him out with no effort whatsoever, I had the most overwhelming feeling of falling madly in love with him the second I saw him. I had NOT felt like this when the first one was born.

I then had an entire year of some sort of post natal euphoria. I was completely ecstatic and delirious with happiness to the point I thought I might have something wrong with me.

I had this but with my eldest. Can I ask, if it’s not too personal, what do you put this down to?
it was hard for me as I had it with my first and was so excited to have it with my second and was confused when things weren’t the same..

SweetFancyMoses · 25/07/2025 22:53

Testingthetimes · 25/07/2025 22:09

I had this but with my eldest. Can I ask, if it’s not too personal, what do you put this down to?
it was hard for me as I had it with my first and was so excited to have it with my second and was confused when things weren’t the same..

I can’t put it down to anything. I think the fact I had the easiest birth, on my due date, contributed.

A bit like not talking about having a crazily easy birth experience, I didn’t feel I could share my weird high with anyone. In fact, I have never talked about it in real life.

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