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."

[Tizzylizzy]

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?

Cornflowers, I agree. It's harmless.

sparks i'm 32 and call my mother "ma" all the time!

Cornflowers: what about those who refer to hubby - or worse hubbie?????

I can't bear women referring to themselves as mommy/mummy. I can bear women referring to their children as lil' man/lil' lady and bubs. Oh I can't even bear to type B.U.B.S. I've just been a little bit sick in my mouth.

I have a lovely friend who always asks me how 'bubs' is. Thank God she is nice in other ways because I feel like throttling her

YANBU.

Bubs is definately vomitty.

Round my way it's 'babby'.

YA most definitley NOT BU..... I hate all the gushy lovey dovey my child is amazing and has just done a poo kind of status's (stati?) I love my dd, all my firiends know I love her, they also know I love being a mum 99% of the time, thus I do not feel the need to constantly update everyone I know every five seconds on what my baby is doing etc!!!
Social media sites are the devil!!!!

sparks i'm 32 and call my mother "ma" all the time!

Completely different! However don't ask for my rationale!

incredible are you from the black country by any chance? My grandad always called us babby lol :)

Oh - but you could have so much fun once they are teenagers!!

I reckon the threat of posting "Mummy luffs her sonny bunny wunny" would get them doing their chores in no time

I always get thee feeling its because a lot of the time, they DON"T feel that way at all. So when they do, they announce it like its something special.

Most happy people don't announce it!

From the West Country.

You were close!

YANBU.

Glad I'm not the only grumpy git around me.

One of my fb friends works part time mon to weds & EVERY week she posts 'gotta love the four day weekend with my little man, working part time is fab' on weds evening. I'm very tempted to put one up on pay day saying 'gotta love the fulltime paycheck.'

Sincere schmaltz is OK.
Just to pour some cold water on the flaming torches, in my job I've met a lot of unhappy children whose mummys really don't love their little bunnikins at all.
Who neglect or hurt them.
So although the ikky posts of luurrve are a bit sickly, the other end of the bell curve is truly vile. Most of us are in the middle.

Facebook Statutes like that are naff. If someone talks about their 'little man' or 'princess more than once, I block their news feed.

Please please put 'you gotta love the full time pay cheque' for the sake of humanity.

Actually I don't think it is the best feeling in the world. I have 3 DCs but rearing them is a job. doesn't make me feel it's the best thing in the world, by a long way! I love them, but I love a lot of other things too which have nothing whatsoever to do with whether I have children or not.

It is annOying (so is typing this on my phone) I think they are overcompensating though - just like husbands who are gushy about their wives - always think its to make them look like a good husband to the world

I wouldn't post something like that although I truly agree with the sentiment. I very nearly could have children and it was touch and go when I DID have DS (cancer, IVF, baby born 3 month prem...) so to me he is very precious and I can't believe my luck that he's here and he's mine.

I also know what it is to believe you won't have children though, and wouldn't want to upset friends of mine on FB who are going through their own struggles.

Plus, posting crap like 'I love my lil man', 'I have the best hubby in the entire cosmos' etc just generally make me boak and smack of generally trying too hard to impress.

OP, if it pisses you off, why not unfriend her?

I think it would be kinder to unfriend her than take the piss out of her status updates tbh

Surely having an orgasm is the best feeling in the whole wide world? Or is that just me?!

At least no one pokes/slaps/tickles/spanks/kisses each other anymore. I mean the facebook versions thereof.

Well said demented ma. I think we need to separate the love thing out as I obviously love my DC. But when they haven't slept all night, spit out their porridge, plaster it in their hair and hit you as you're trying to clean it up - it's really NOT the best feeling. If you are having a euphoric moment (of which there are many as a parent) my first thought is not to run to the computer and write about it on Facebook.

Mrfunny - do you write about it on Facebook though?! I would guess not.

It's boastful, and unthinking towards those with fertility problems. This is the problem with Facebook. Fine to tell people your thoughts on a one-to-one basis, but a blanket FB update doesn't take people's individual circumstances into account.