to keep being so emotional over my son all the time?

[lomega]

I have an 8 month old baby boy and he's my world. He is such a good kid. I don't even want to go on about it too much for fear of sounding like I'm bragging and putting my PFB on a pedestal, that's not my aim, but obviously I am smitten with my LO. My DH and I think the world of him, he's such a light in our lives. Of course he has moments where he screams in our ears and throws food on the floor etc like all kids do as well, but he generally is very sweet and well behaved.

The trouble is, I keep getting stupidly tearful and emotional over him. I feel embarrassed and pathetic and fucking stupid if I'm honest (sorry for the language) because other parents who love their kids don't blub all the time (from what I can see.)
I just cuddle him sometimes and I well up, or we'll be reading/watcing TV together and something will just set me off. Is this normal? Do lots of mums have an emotional snivel in private over how overwhelming the love is for their babies? I never tend to cry if there are people around because I try to suppress it (and it makes me feel ridiculous), and I do try not to let my DS see me crying.

For example earlier today I was cuddling him and helping him (he's just learning to crawl so I'd laid a blanket on the floor) and he rolled over onto his back and said 'mama'. And that was it. It was meant to be a cute/special moment and all I could do was cry. :/ It just feels like I love him so much and it overwhelms me entirely.

I've recently returned to work from mat leave and I did have some mild PND (which was treated very quickly), so I don't know if other mums have had this and could comment on their experiences?

Sorry if this is long and/or idiotic. I just don't know if this is normal or not.

[Heels99]

Yanbu. I could cry when I think of my dcs leaving home.....in about 13 years time!!!!!

[Hakluyt]

Heels-13 days for me.........

[ChaffinchOfDoom]

I cry in certain circs, when I show them something I watched/read/heard in my own childhood and I get this overwhelming sense of family and history and continuity and the permanence of things while we age and grow and change
thanks a lot Lion King songs. Disney is too powerful for this

but also, I cry if anyone is good at anything, I really have to get a grip of myself - for example, the Olympics/sports on TV, even xfactor...if someone's child does well I am so proud of them/understand how proud their parents are. crazy! I try and hide it, dh thinks it's funny

[ColgateSmile]

Another one here who does not get these lovey mushy feelings, ever.

I guess this must be the norm (or at least how we're expected to feel?) but it's not how I feel about my children, I am proud of their achievements but certainly not ever overwhelmed by those feelings.

YANBU and I didn't mean to piss on your chips OP but just wanted to share my own feelings!

[Armi]

I developed a sudden cold this afternoon. My little DD (3 yrs old) and I were taking a walk in the gardens of a local stately home. We'd just finished playing hide and seek and were sort of marching along enjoying the autumny weather in companionable silence. She suddenly said,'I really love you, mummy' and took my hand. She was so sincere, swinging along in her big wellies with her little skinny legs and her hair all blowing in her face. I had to scrabble for a tissue.

[DisgraceToTheYChromosome]

DD is 18, and when I go and turn off her bedroom light I still feel wibbly at the sight of her head on the pillow.

Which is not what people expect of a 16 stone HGV driving Phil Mitchell lookalike.

[curiousgeorgie]

All the time. Thinking about crying over them now is making me want to cry

[Rachie1986]

I'm not like this.
Now I feel weird.
Another thing to add to my "why I'm clearly a useless mother" list..

[SuperGlue]

I feel like this about dd (8) and as she is an only and most likely always will be, I totally identify with the pp who said it is also a sort of intense 'oh...we will never have this stage again in our lives....' and it kills me!

[HazelBite]

I cried the first time I saw DC2 (aged 30) in his police uniform

[girliefriend]

Am much more emotional since having dd, I cry at anything remotely child related on the telly and even cried reading a book about somebody who had to give a child up for adoption. I think when you are a mother you can suddenly relate to all mums and children (their pain is your pain) its a bit like Elliot and E.T

I love my dd so much it is often overwhelming, I had a nightmare about a week ago that dd died and then came back to life but no body would believe me - I was completely traumatised when I woke up

[Solasum]

Hakluyt. Will you go and visit?

[80schild]

Shortly after having DC1 I remembered a line from Frasier (that well known sitcom of the 90s) I always thought was cheesy. It goes:

"when you first have your children you love them, then you fall in love with them". It feels so true the more I see of my DCs character the more I love them.

[girliefriend]

I don't think you know what love is till you have kids.....

[Eauneau]

I don't think you know what love is till you have kids.....

This is such a soppy cliche but, at least in my case, its true!

I am so much more tearful over everything since having kids - films, news reports, books, everything. We used to rip the piss out of my mum for crying at everything but now i am just the same.

Ds is 3 and in between being a little bit of a toerag is just coming out with the cutest stuff ever. He is just so lovely and polite and will often just hit me with a spontaneous 'I love you mummy' and a kiss and cuddle. He is also constantly cuddling and gushing about his baby sister. I am always welling up. Somtimes i also lay in bed at night and think about somthing bad happening to them and i cry

However the thing that sets me off most at the moment is when he belts out 'Let It Go' from the back seat of the car!

I am just dreading assemblies and school plays - people will think i am a total loon!

[MrsBigginsPieShop]

I am clearly overtired as I'm welling up just reading this. DS's little coat and shoes in the hall hanging next to DH's huge work coat makes my throat lump.

[popcornpaws]

You will still be crying in years to come, for different reasons, my dd used to play the violin and learnt to play my favourite folk song The wild mountain thyme and when she played it to me i filled up, when she left primary school i filled up, when she passed her exams i blubbed, when she got into uni i howled.

She leaves home to go to uni in two weeks...

[CalamityKate1]

Yeah I often well up. Just silly things set me off. For some reason doing 1-1 stuff makes me all soppy; for DS2 and me it's sitting together watching Dr Who. That's "our" thing. We can spend whole afternoons watching reruns on Netflix, cuddled together. Quite often he'll reach over and take my hand or lean over for a kiss.

For DS1 and me it's cooking programmes, especially GBBO. Same scenario re:cuddles :)

I hasten to add we do do other stuff besides watch TV! It's just that the stillness, the shared interest, the chatting about the programme, the snuggles..... it's lovely and I sometimes look at them and I want to freeze time.

I feel like I love them more each day and now they're both at senior school - or will be when DS2 starts year 7 in September - I'm struck more than ever how quickly they grow up :(

DS2 had to write a list of his favourite things for a school scrapbook earlier in the year. Number three was "hugging mum". That brought on the waterworks!

[CheerfulYank]

I don't cry overly much (though I do from time to time) but I do occasionally just have to squeeze them. I hug them tight and pat their heads and say "oh my babies, my babies!"

DD is 15 months and laughs, DS is 7 and pats my arm absentmindedly.

[Tikimon]

I don't cry overly much (though I do from time to time) but I do occasionally just have to squeeze them. I hug them tight and pat their heads and say "oh my babies, my babies!"

This. Yes.

I have an almost uncontrollable urge to want to pick up sleeping DD and just squeeze her and cover her in kisses. Sometimes I do and it reminds me why you let the baby fucking sleep

I don't think I've ever cried over DD (5 months), but I do get sudden explainable gushes of affection towards her where I have to just kiss her chubby cheeks over and over. Sometimes I nuzzle her cheek next to mine.

Also, I like to post endless pictures of her to show off how gorgeous she is. She's obviously the most beautiful baby, I sort of feel bad for those moms with subpar babies.

Ok, I fibbed a little. I can't read that "I'll love you forever" book to her without welling up thinking about how she's not going to be my baby forever.

[StairsInTheNight]

Oh yes, I get this. It's the soft cheeks and chubby wrists that triggers it, and when the look at you like you are the whole world. Such unconditional love. Guess you dont get that - or get to give that to anyone else.

[Flangeshrub]

All the time. I can't believe I got THIS lucky. I am so in love with my kids I want to cry very often. My four year old starts reception next week and I just adore her and will spread a tear. My 6 year old makes me fill up all the time, telling me how much she loves me. Even my 17 year old still makes me fill up.
I just cannot read 'owl babies' anymore. When both my littlies grab hold of me and look at me with such love when the "she came!" Bit happens.

Aaa yes it's like being in love.

[Fabulous46]

I had another "filling up" moment yesterday when I was told I'm going to be a granny and invited by my DIL to go to her scan .

[Hakluyt]

"She leaves home to go to uni in two weeks...."

Popcorn- it's not long til Christmas, really, is it......?

Have you cried over the university shopping?