I clearly am bvu but I can't help but be annoyed by this status update and the like: "Being a mummy is the best feeling in the WHOLE wide world :) xxx."

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I am clearly an awful human being but it just sets me totally on edge. Yes being a mum has moments of total euphoria but no one's convincing me it's a bed of roses 100% of the time. Or it could be the calling yourself 'mummy' and talking in baby language. I dunno, just pisses me off. I'm awful aren't I?

I don't have an issue with it. I agree with their sentiment even though we have had a lot of ups and downs

Could have been worse, they could have said "bestest feeling".

Yes - you are being awful. She's incredibly happy to be a Mum, why do you feel so much like pissing on her parade?

It's not something I would write on FB for two reasons, it's not the sort of thing I'd write and I don't do Facebook, maybe you should try it, it's a lot less stressful :)

I see statuses like this all the time from my friends. Very hard for those of us who can't have children.

Yep you are awful, but I agree

What annoys me is when I get asked 'how's mum?'. My mum is fine thanks...

Oh god no, it is cringeworthy. And also quite often wrong.

I agree Alphabite, it does come across as gloating as well.

How dare she love her children and write what she likes on her very own FB

I think it's the public declaration thing I'm uncomfortable with. Maybe.

I think I must bu too

I agree it is the bestest most wuffly fing wot I have ever done in my whole entire life. True.

I do not see the need to dribble about it in public, neither do those I regard as friends. But for those that do, what harm are they creating?
None. Their ikkle heads may be full of candyfloss instead of mundane reality, but they are harmless and that's OK by me.

let it go. ........she isn't ask you to 'like' her status (I assume this is a facebook thing)

I don't do FB but I thought a status update was a public declaration?

YANBU another one is "I love my boys". Good on yer, I think, you love your children - go tell THEM not me!

IME people who say stuff like this are often having a brief good period in the middle of an otherwise rather shitty life.

I do have a friend who posts crap like this about dogs though...she's a lovely person but really. Dogs.

Facebook: work of the devil.

The sooner the whole thing comes crashing down the better.

I don't have a facebook but will ask why you are all judgmental over a 'friend' posting what she wants to post?

"Being a mummy is the best feeling in the WHOLE wide world :) xxx"

To which the correct response is - "To you, maybe"

YANBU, it's the language, not the sentiment which really grates on me. I just think "airhead", if I'm honest. For a start, you're a mother, dearie, not a mummy. A mummy is a dead thing which has been wrapped in bandages.

Maybe deep down (ok maybe not that deep down) I wish I could be that fluffy and full of the joys of life?

The mummy updates, to be fair, are no worse than the 'Feeling really happy today to have the most wonderful husband in the world!! ' or 'These are the lovely flowers my gorgeous husband gave to me today!' accompanied by a pic of the bouquet wilting away in its wrappings...
Gushing public declarations of love for significant others etc just make me cringe. To each their own, though, it's harmless :)

Cornflowers I totally agree. The pics of bouquets - yuck!

It's the language for me.

Was in a restaurant at lunchtime and a grown woman of at least 35 turned to her mother and referred to her as " Mamma".

Sorry but in my book that's just wrong.

Yes, it's cringy!

My friend's post a lot of 'like this if you love your son'.

No, fuck off!!

YABU and I know exactly what you mean (I am U too!)