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

You know your a mum when you are not allowed to be ill. You have to get out of bed and carry on regardless if you have a rotten cold/period pains/sickness and all you want is to go to bed.
You go to the toilet by yourself and think its strange!
The first time you use an escalator in years as you don't have a pram and just how heavy is shopping!!!!

When your DC wakes up at 6, and you feel so pleased that you've had a lay-in!

When you talk for ages to other adults about poo/wee/sick/snot, and not even see anything wrong with this!

When you will happily lift up DC in public and have a good sniff of their bum!

When you have a very rare night alone with your DH and you talk constantly about DC!

When you have a kiddies theme tune going round your head so continuously that after 2 or 3 days you've musingly rewritten the words....

They're 2 they're 4 they're 6 they're 8
DS can climb over the stairgate
Red and green and brown and blue
Seen all those colours in his poo
Lots of different ways to play
Dont flush the car keys away
Driving Mummy round the bend
Thomas and his friends

(If anyone wants to share the madness)

Lovely, compact girly handbags are a no-no....instead need a very practicle over the body bag. Gotta have hands free for the pushchair! Plus it needs to be big enuf to fit dummies, spare dummies, tissues, wipes and a whole host of other unglamourous articles in (as well as my stuff) even tho i find all these items in every pocket of the coats i own too!!

Your DP has to cut up your dinner into bitesize bits so you can eat one handed and jiggling baby around while you eat. Standing up at the kitchen counter, coz everytime you sit down said baby screams like a banshee.

@ MoJangled

Your stomach gets caught in your trouser zip.

One mouthful of sick on your top is not enough to make you get changed.

Poo on your trousers gets sponged off if there is time when pre-kids you'd have retched at the bare idea.

Someone asks if you'd like to see a photo of the nappy their baby did after 10 days of constipation - and you really are genuinely interested!

Desperately dh has done that for me on many occasions.

Mojangled brilliant!

Oh, another one! You forget boobs can be seen as sexual, and don't think of the effect on non-dad male friends when you feed. Bless them. They try so hard not to see!

You start to draw parallels between kids' TV and major social, political and business issues.
I'm thinking about writing a paper: "What Cookie Monster tells us about the Eurozone Crisis"

You find yourself wondering which of the CBeebies presenters are at it behind the scenes...

when you spend friday night sewing name tags into new school uniform or backlog of bages onto guide uniform!!

Someone asks you your name, and without thinking, you frequently reply 'mummy.'

When you've not been on holiday abroad for 10 years but DD has been skiing in North America earlier this year, is off to France next month and deposit has just been paid for German exchange trip and skiing trip to Italy for next academic year!

When you instintively catch baby sick on your hands

you have had worms or nits...

You can't look at David Cameron without seeing Igglepiggle.
You wonder is that a bit of banana or a slug on the kitchen floor, because either one is feasible.
You have conversations that go "no that's not a cake, its his head" and no one has taken any drugs.

You say 'be careful' up to 50 times a day.

You have given up alcohol because a 6am start with a hangover is just not worth it.

girliefriend I say "be careful" so many times a day in response to something or other that I now know that DS (age 21 months) is about to embark on some particularly dangerous maneuver when I hear a wee voice shouting "careful, careful" :)

Hey notmoving know the feeling - I love traveling and am dead jealous of dd off to France this summer with school !

< wistfully plans trip to Paris with dd next spring ! >

VikingLady That comment about the poo photo made me laugh so much my stomach hurt wobbled!

You know your life is not as it was, never will be and you never want it to be. Well only sometimes

If you are handed half-eaten-and-unwanted food, and you have nowhere else to put it, you will eat it.