How have you changed since having kids?

[desperatehousewife]

It's obvious that we do all change (quite significantly for most I would guess) when we become parents, but am interested in how people think they have changed the most. I feel I've changed quite a lot and I dont' like all the changes sadly . (apart from the obvious tits down to my knees, saggy c-section tummy overhang and tireness like I didn't think possible)
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Smaller boobs, grey hairs, always tired.

TBH I think I have become boring - my world view seems to have narrowed considerably. I don't want to be boring with the kids as my one topic of conversation but what else have I to talk about? Find this a bit sad.

im more patient calmer and enjoy the simpler things like staying in, watching her sleep its fab being a mum.

things i dont like is extra weight (going to gym so hope to sort that) and im now a virgin again (well maybe not but it feels like it)

Happier, more confident and relaxed...

Far more tired... but used to it!!

Well - i have lost weight because food is no longer my priority! Im actually proud of my baby belly (always hated having a pot belly before my 2)
I like children now
Im more laid back now (with most things)
I cry now at television programs/films with sad storylines - or the news
I want to spend time with all my family now
I have zero short term memory
I dont care that i have zero short term memory
What was the question again....?

I have become less tolerant of people who bring no joy to my life. I lost a few friends when I had a baby, because I don't back down about what I need any more.

If I don't want to answer the phone, I just don't. It took 22 years for me to realise I could choose whether or not to answer the shrill nazi in the corner, and it feels so good not to.

If I was a hippy, I would say my aura has become smaller, duller, but denser. I don't know what i mean by that, it just sounds right.

It has made me organised on a level I never was before. I'm not organised now, but before I was a total drifter, left-over curry for breakfast type. Now we hardly ever run out of milk!

I have only had a child for 2.5 years, yet my face looks like it has taken a 10 year beating of parenting.

my tits are floppy. I hate that. They are longer than they are wide

I now understand how people can say "No, I'm not going out, I just want to go to bed"

Oh yeah, that reminds me, find it much harder to watch anything sad involving babies/kids. It was hard before but awful now.

It makes me want to get medieval on anyone who harms children.

Oh and by watch I meant on the TV or something... or read about, or be told about, etc.

I never really noticed other parents before, but i love that knowing look you and another pram pushing mum exchange sometimes.

Before DS people often thought I was up to ten younger than I actually was. Not anymore!

Harder, brash, cynicle, long for the innocence that i thought the world was rosy.

appreciative of my childhood.

i grow through necessity of doing things becuae i have kids or becuase i need the money - or else am sure i would be living on the same street in the same town.

i dont think i changed much after the first apart from suddenly realising what its like to love something so much you could scream. (makes no sense). since dd though ive changed very much.

im much more responsible. i do "mummy" things. i cook (things from scratch, fancy that). i even own recipy books and two blenders.
im fiercely protective of them, would happily rip anyone who hurt them to shreds and not think twice. (i was a very quiet person before).
im doing a lot better on the morals these days (i was a nasty cow as a teenager in a quiet sly way).
i will happily now wander around not dressed up and no makeup on (im not sure if this means i have more confidence in myself or that ive let myself go?)
i cant use big words anymore, i simply cant remember them (but that may be down to not working).
its true to say that my brain is frazzled.
im more tolerant of other people as ive had to walk many miles in many shoes over the last two years...but strangely less tolerant of idiots and more likely to say what i think (nicely of course).
ive also become very boring i think, too sensible for my friends and too thoughtful.
i have become obsessed with having a nice house, clean kids and a nice organised life (this is never going to happen and i fail miserably most of the time!)

and then theres the dreaded weight gain...ive still got my size eight clothes but im kidding myself. ah well, maybe i can pass them on to dd....

Nearly had the same physical changes specially a huge tummy like I am pregnant and feel tired all the time.
It has not changed my overall personality but there is more hatered and anger for those people who did not helped me when i needed it specilly for mil.

I havent got the patience to make small talk with people anymore. I used to angage in office gossip but now I cant be bothered and would rather spend lunch on my own with a book.
I find that quite depressing and have visions of myself in a few years with no friends left.

Going out and getting all dressed up just doesnt have the same appeal that it used to

I never seem to get to relax anymore and anytime spent in the house is a round of floor sweeping, filling the washing machine or emptying the dishwasher.

I also resent DH a lot more for not pulling his weight.

I love watching other mums with children ie in the park, shopping

I would never before have realised how protective I am of them, I think that if someone tried to actually really hurt them I would seriously damage them without a second thought.

Before children I didn't realise parents felt like that.

Oh and I'm ALWAYS tired, thats changed and I used to want to stay up all night drinking, uh the thought of that makes me want my bed

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weigh less than I did I don't fret about eating all the time (well I did weigh less till I got pregnant again)
not that bothered about spending money on clothes
much poorer
less sleep
more emotional
less selfish
less self obsessed
happier than I have ever been

generally happier, when not more stressed.
less political, sadly (less time or energy).
I use a car more.
feel guilty about car use more than did before.
more boring to childless friends.
body not so different to before but had to work at that - endless aerobics and running.
less keen on sex.
don't like having my breasts touched ever any more- result of breastfeeding traumas.

Probably in lots of ways, but the one I think is most obvious to people who knew me before is that I'm much less of a doormat. I'm much more likely to confront someone if I think they're out of order. Don't really know why now or what made me change in this way.

I am fat, tedious, uncultured and knackered.

Yes - more emotional, care more about the environment, can drink less and spend a hell of a lot less time in "hair&make-up" in the mornings....

Rough hands and a bad back
(Can get a f** of a lot done in a day though.
Unfortunately not of it is particularly exciting or creative.)

I like children now (not just my own). I like them and I value them