post baby euphoria

[squirmyworm]

does anyone else feel like this? I'm normally a very controlling, planning things to the n'th degree kind of person and can be anxious. BUT having a baby has made me 10,000 times more chilled out. I feel like I can do ANYTHING and that whatever life throws at me I will cope. Am I losing my (never very numerous) marbles OR is this some kind of fiendish baby-altered brain thing?
Have to confess I have just had a crunchie and a couple of glasses of Banrock!

banrock station?
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!
my favourite

enjoy the endorphins
how old is baby?

After I hab ds, the midwife told me to enjoy being happy, it wouldn't last and i'd be low soon.

Four years and two more children later and still waiting....

Why is PND the only thing that ever gets mentioned?

yep, I'd been dreading PND

baby 17 weeks....I'm sure it'll all change - facing new job, house move and (gulp) new car in next 2 months (I am very emotionally involved with my car)

yup Banrock station AND it's rose, how naff am I??

I had this sense of utter joy and happiness with ds. Just felt wonderful for ages. The lack of sleep got me down around the three/four month mark though. Ds never slept more than two hours at a stretch and would stay awake for hours in between those two hour stretches even at night. I do feel happier now than ever before though. My ds is the light of my life.

i also dreaded PND because i have suffered from depression on and off all my adult life, but like aloha i found myself blissfully happy for months until the tiredness took over

very good point about the tiredness, but even after a crap night and feeling like death the next day, the skin on skin contact of their cheeks activates the hormone and endorphin rush and it's back to bliss, even if it's just for that moment.

Nothing wrong with the rose, squirmy, but do try the cab sauv

I'm afraid I didn't feel like this - but I am delighted for you that you do!

I felt terrible for a while especially with dd1 (I really used to envy people who'd wanted to hold their new baby - after a vile birth all I wanted was for someone to take her away). But now I am so totally in love with both of them - and I think it's also a case of 'right, I can't panic totally, I'm responsible - and I can do it'.

Didn't have such a great time with DS1 but it was total euphoria after DS2's birth, although like Aloha when the tiredness really kicked in (about 12 weeks) and for me this did take the edge off things, this and a house move. A bottle of Banrock red always does the trick in this house!

I felt on a high too. I had a littl girl, a perfect baby daughter who slept through the night, and life was / is generally pretty bloody excellent. People kept telling me it wouldn't last. I'd frown and think think 'No I think it will actually' and it did, it has.

The fact that I /we didn't fall to pieces after the news that she had Down syndrome made me feel as if I /we could handle anything. DP and I were so calm and cool and collected about everything. We'd go out for the whole day with her and never worried about getting back or not having something with us etc. Nothing was put on hold and we just carried on with our lives as before but better! All this was helped by the fact that she didn't really cry and slept and b.feed so well.