To cry when I hold my sleeping child because I love them so much?

[Bellaboosmum1]

Sometimes when I'm holding my sleeping child, I hold them so tight and think about how much I love them and I end up weeping. Am I alone?

Wow I'm so glad it's not just me who does this. I didn't have the sudden rush of love when he was a baby so for me it was a gradual thing. Now he's 4 and I can just look at him and cry

I do this too. My youngest is a rotten sleeper so I usually dread bedtime but it's all forgotten when she's snuggled in and snoring away.

We still cosleep with DS2, and I regularly go to bed early so I can snuggle in and look at him. Poor DP.

YABU. Never occurred to me to do this with my children, once they were asleep I left well alone .
With my dogs, on the other hand, quite reasonable. I often have a bit of a sob fest when I'm feeling maudlin and thinking about how short their lives are.

We fostered a tiny baby boy from the day he was born and I fell for him the first moment I held him. I knew he was to be adopted by another family and my time with him was precious, so I would sit quietly singing, 'Don't Want to Miss a Thing.' and weeping with his little warm, crumpled blonde head cradled in the crook of my arm. I would imagine what that little head would look like as he grew... and as I did, the tears would roll down my face.

Now he's 15, almost 6' tall, built like a whippet and has size 10 feet... his blonde head is still warm and crumpled as he lies across me when I watch TV gaze lovingly at his beautiful square jaw and freckly nose.... .

The love I feel for my kids is incredibly strong and almost a primal sense of 'mine' to protect. But moved to tears when I hold them? No. Never.

sob
Used to do this when mine were small < looks wistfully at baby pic on wall>

Now they are young adults, and both currently going through shit times of their own. Last night I was cuddling one as she wept in my arms, wishing we could go back to when a cuddle would fix most things, & mummy could always sort it I nuzzled the top of her head & said as much, bless her she said
""mama cuddles always help me feel stronger even now"

Snuffle...tissues anyone?

I'm having a really difficult pregnancy and the thought of this is what is getting me through

What an amazing emotion love is. What an awful awful world it would be without it.

Yeah I love it when they're asleep as well

Did this last night before going to bed.
Then dd woke up, took a massive dump, started bawling and refused to go back to bed.
By 2am I was still almost in tears but for different reasons.

Shameful confession; when I was pregnant with my first, my dog crawled onto my lap one evening (as he often did) and I cried thinking about how much I loved the smelly, barking fucker.

Shockers, did he stay with you then?

Yesterday, I lay on the edge of DS's bed, holding him with his head on my chest. He had fallen asleep after crying his eyes out about a trauma he is going through. I lay there stroking his head, thinking about how much I love him and how amazing it is to look at your own child. I still think about how miraculous it is to grow a child inside, watch them develop until....

.... they are miles bigger than you! Yes, he is no longer a little boy, but is a man of 22! He has just split up from his girlfriend.

He did Henrietta . Our big, beautiful, clever, funny boy!

Oh Shockers - I'm feckin crying now

I teared up a bit last night. My baby (yes people she's 4, she's always going to be my baby). She came into bed with me and before I fell asleep, I looked over and she was all sweaty hair & lying on her tummy and I felt tears - I'm blaming it on the fact that yesterday was her taster day for P1.

Thank goodness it's not just me, I well up at the slightest thing these days, and snuggling my sleeping children brings on a waterfall. My 9 month old drifts off in my arms, I stroke his face with mine, snuggle into his silky hair and weep with happiness and love

Shockers you just pushed me over the edge with that one .

Yep, I can't sing my 2yo to sleep without bawling. He's out for a full day without me today, I cried when he was at the door looking all smart and grown up in his little shirt. I've been looking forward to a break all week (I'm pregnant and overdue) but now I just want him to be at home with me .

Can't win! But that's the best bit about parenting, I cling on to that feeling when he's having a tantrum and refusing to get off the floor!

As-yet childless, but I cry sometimes when I look at my sleeping geckos. They're so adorable and fragile. Thanks to this thread, I'm reassured that it would at least be "normal" if I did this with my kids.

Ah, thanks for all your comments ladies. I feel reassured that I am not alone and am very normal. Your comments made me well up, especially you shockers xx

Shockers! That was uncalled for! Should have had some sort of tear jerker warning...

I do this too and she's 8 now!

well I am crying now Shockers

yes I do often but especially when he was a toddler when he was so amazed with the world and learning something new I was a blubbering wreck much of the time

Just watching him play or listening to him in his make believe world with his friends and I get all teary and I have to leave the room

I do this too! And I'm not a particularly emotional person