To cry over baby every day

[happyviolet]

I'm now 11 weeks postpartum and I cry every single day about how much I love my daughter. The love is quite frankly, terrifying and overwhelming and I've never felt anything like it.

My DH is worried I might have a bit of post partum depression, but I just think this is normal for me - as a very emotional person. AIBU and do I need to see the GP or is this quite normal behaviour?

Do you feel sad? It sounds as though you are crying happy tears?

I don’t know what is or isn’t normal but I cried everyday for the first 2 weeks. Then it would only be if I was overwhelmed.

Hormones are a bitch though!

I cried almost every day for the first few weeks after my DD was born.

I sometimes still cry and he's 21

Thinking about the song that came on the radion when my son was born makes me cry (as did writing this post about it!) and he's nearly 10.

I was like this with my first and it continued for a long time. I think I was just overwhelmed by the happy emotions. It didn't happen when I had a second baby although I loved DC2 just the same. Not sure why but I think maybe it was easier emotionally second time around.

I suggest a visit to the Sistene chapel

😂

Hi OP I actually replied to a six year old thread this summer saying something very similar. The OP kindly updated and said six years on from the birth of her baby she still looks at her child and can easily cry with love.

As long as you're not feeling low, sounds normal for you, to me. If I think too much about how much I love my three month old I can cry any time!

@Flittingaboutagain

Hi OP I actually replied to a six year old thread this summer saying something very similar. The OP kindly updated and said six years on from the birth of her baby she still looks at her child and can easily cry with love.

As long as you're not feeling low, sounds normal for you, to me. If I think too much about how much I love my three month old I can cry any time!

That's amazing Do you have a link?

My sons are in their 30s, I cry with love for them still

@WhitePhantom

I suggest a visit to the Sistene chapel

I’d have to agree with this.

I understand you say you’re an emotional person and maybe you can’t see it because you’re using weeks instead of months but 11 weeks is one week shy of 3 months so you’ve cried every day for THREE MONTHS?! Yes, I can see why your husband might be a little concerned and you’ll notice other posters mention they might have cried every day for a “few weeks.” That means two. Maybe three. Not three months. Let’s call time what it is in this case.

So no, I’m not sure crying every day for three months is normal? Perhaps your hormones a bit out of whack and you have quite a lot of oxytocin still, maybe a bit more than normal. But this kind of thing can turn into a fixation on your child - concern about leaving them alone, concern that no one will take care of them as well as you do, or love them as well as you can. If you find yourself suddenly having any intrusive thoughts, please talk to your GP. Post-partum “imbalance” (more than depression, exactly) can come in many different ways.

🤣 @WhitePhantom

Close on three months of crying daily because you’re finding the emotional experience ‘terrifying and overwhelming’, is very different from happy tears, and different also from a few weeks of baby blues. And your partner thinks it might be a bit of PND too.

I’d talk to the GP.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2395981-To-cry-when-I-hold-my-sleeping-child-because-I-love-them-so-much?pg=5

Found it. You're normal OP 🙂 Loads of us feel the same way and we're not depressed!

Do you mean a welling up of tears regularly or you are sobbing for 8 hours a day?

I've become so much more emotional since having my LO, who is now 7MO!
I even cried happy tears at Married at first sight

No. My little treasure is 4 weeks and Christ knows I love the wee fecker but I couldn’t he doing with that. I’d be booking a visit to the GP pronto.

I was sobbing at 5am the other day but that wasn’t love, that was sleep deprivation.

I cried for about a year with my first. Less with my second 😂