You know you're a mum/dad when ....

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... The catchy tune you are humming all day is not the usual Elbow, Adele or some other hip tune, but the character tunes from 'In the Night Garden'.
Iggle Piggle wiggle Iggle, dum de dum de dum

Sad but true!

when you can do the hotdog dance and know all the words too :)

Everything's Rosie. Bloody hate the program as well.

DF was sat playing Ice Age on his phone and humming Everything's Rosie last night. I was a bit but I often start singing the theme to Tinga Tinga Tales while washing up.

My friend knew she was a mum when the woman in the bank asked her to spell her surname and she responded phonetically. 'Suh ..Muh.. Ih..Tuh...Huh.....'

Oh tootles!!

Rolling over in your sleep to gently shush pat your husband back to sleep

Icky, sticky, sweaty, painty little hands sneak into yours and you don't pull away in revulsion, but get a happy sort of glow inside.

You hand someone a plate of cake and automatically accompany it with, "What do you say?"

The calendar has no white space left on it at all, and only two of the engagements all month are for you

You are in the car with baby asleep and you are still singing along to 'the wheels on the bus...'

You always have a hankie and baby wipes to hand. And have to stop yourself offering them to random people who look like they could do with one

You see a building site from the car and you point and say "digger!" excitedly, before realising there are actually no DCs with you

my dp has the tell tale signs of a new dad, his t-shirt shoulders are covered with milky/posit marks. if im stood for more than a few minutes i start to sway gently side to side even though im not holding DD. i also say 'yumyumyumyumyumyum delicioso!' (dora the bloody explorer) when feeding DS. oh and i know basic sign language thanks to mr. tumble although id never admit to friends thats where i learnt it...

...you stand swaying whilst talking to someone then realise you haven't got the baby in your arms

I didn't do this whilst out over the weekend

Godisa, thats a bit like when im in Tescos and pushing the trolley back and forward with no baby in it, just getting around to kicking that habit now!

Titty I do that too and get strange looks from the security men

I sway without a baby too.

When you count showing your "groovy moves" as part of your daily exercise because it's the only time you have to do any.

When you tackle a snotty nose with bare hands without even flinching or thinking it's grim.

YY titty!

I was once told that, at some point, I would find myself cupping my hand to catch DS's sick. I was so at this, though not as much as I was when it actually happened

All of the above. And you automatically head for the lift, even when you don't have a pushchair.

You have a baby?

when, after countless retorts and explanations of why you want your DD to do something, you resort to the "because I said so" line.

I say Well Done to everybody regardless of their age or achievement I'm not being patronising, honestly

I point put emergency vehicles to anyone who is nearby