Surely other mums don't love their kids like I love mine?

[luckiestgirlintheworld]

Or is this something every mum feels?

I look at DS1 and just think he's the most amazing thing in the world and can't believe how much I love him. I must love him more than other mums love theirs? But then my mum says that's how she feels about me and my siblings, so perhaps it's what all parents feel?

But then I'm always kissing him and laughing at him, and I don't really see many other mums like this with their children, so perhaps not?

Not sure what I'm getting at with this thread really- just musing I suppose.

18 months old?
Hang on to all the smug memories you can, you are going to need them over the next coupls of decades. Make notes, take pictures.
Then when you are sobbing in a heap after another encounter with your truculent and independent teenager, get them out and remember.

Terrible twos are just around the corner, OP...

My DC - I can take them or leave them, most days

Now, the cat however...I just returned from the vet and smugly told DH that the vet said Dcat was the cutest and fluffiest cat she had ever met

DH laughed in my face and told me this is like nursery teachers telling lies every single parent that their DC are the best, i.e clearly bullshit.

Please tell me this isn't true

Some musings are better left in your own head.
I've met some foul, arrogant, unkind stinky and ugly children whose mothers love them to bits. That's the point really, or it should be. Your mother should love you beyond reason, logic or sanity.

I'm sitting on my hands to stop myself ringing the vet to ask if it was true or she was just being polite

I know exactly what you mean, OP. Although logically I can see that most mums probably have the same depth of love for their child as I do..... when I think about my amazing DC and how much I love them, somehow I just can't believe it, my feelings are so strong that I feel as though they are unique.

It's like when you fall in love for the very first time and you are certain that nobody else ever has been as much in love as you two.

I have definitely sat in several baby groups thinking 'my friends must all be so disappointed to not have my baby' , I wonder if they were all thinking the same thing about their babies? but if they did think that they would be very wrong, my baby clearly was the best

This is the belief that makes parents protect their children at all costs, and having a parent who really believes in you is a wonderful confidence booster, so although we chuckle about it in retrospect I don't think we should be too embarrassed, it is probably a hormonal thing, or our genes ensuring their survival.

You need to add another couple to your pack and then come back in a few years! My kids drive me insane most days, but I assure you that I love my lot much much more than you do yours

That's a lovely way to put it Mischief

Ds was in hospital for something or other at 8 weeks old and dh and I were thrilled to have a paediatrician complimenting us on his brilliant ability to hold up his own head. He's 8 years now and still pretty darn good at it :o
the health visitor told my mum that it was the very bright babies that never slept (ie me). I think my mum is still, 30+ years on in that sleep deprived haze as she's ever quite figured out that it was a sweetener to make up for the fact of never sleeping!

MischiefInTheWind why would you not love a child who is ugly?

I read it as completely lighthearted as well and know exactly what you mean!

I still sit at soft play and feel sorry for the other parents because they've got their children and not dd2 who is utterly adorable. So is dd1 but she's at school.

If it's any consolation I've always felt sorry for other people because they weren't me. My logic being that others have to look at me which is their bad luck and at least I don't have to see myself coming towards me in the street. So it does even itself out with my parental smugness!

Oh FFS, get a grip women! Anything we feel for our children pales into
insignificance when face with the love Peter Andre feels for his kids.
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When ds was born I thought he was THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BABY EVER. I genuinely thought every other mother was insane with jealousy. Ten years later and looking at photos of him as a newborn I realise that he actually looked like a froglet. He's beautiful now though :)

Everyone says my DD(7) looks just like me. I'm really goofy with eyes that are too far apart and a very long chin (think Munch's scream with big teeth) but when I look at her, she is the most beautiful child in existence, with her adorable overbite and those big, wide eyes and a good, strong chin. Poor child.

Are at Tigger

Is anyone else reminded of the episode of The apprentice when one of the contestant asks "do the French love their children?"

Some of these responses are so funny! Made me chuckle. And yes, we all love our kids and think they are the most amazing thing in the world, ever. :)

When DD1 was born I was actually embarrassed how beautiful she was, it was so conspicuous, compared to the other babies in the maternity ward.

That was 8 years ago ... Last night I had a completely serious discussion with the in laws about how she and her sister are both so, so, beautiful, not to mention talented and charming, isn't it remarkable to have 2 like that in one family?

it is possible that they look quite ordinary to other people

'MischiefInTheWind why would you not love a child who is ugly?'

How do you know I wasn't talking about my children?

That's not how I read it mischief I ought to have put a smiley... Quite funny how it jumped out to me as a sweet, funny thing to say, then along comes person B who finds it offensive!

Have we uncovered a mother who doesnt think their child is a unrivalled beauty? ;)

Well, my beloved son resembles a mobile compost heap on occasion, but he's still beautiful in my eyes. Despite the wild hairiness and odd smells.

I know exactly how u feel, OP.

I feel so sorry for these poor deluded fools who think they love their babies as much as me us!

My 4yo is simply the most stunning little dahling you'll ever see! And my month old twins who have a party trick of storing milk then spitting it out are at that same high level of beauty. Honestly I can already hear their feet on the catwalk. #blessed

I read it as lighthearted!

I have always thought of myself as disappointingly detached from ds compared to other parents, then I remember the many times I spent browsing frowningly through child model agencies when he was a baby, trying to decide which lucky agency would get to represent him, the most beautiful baby in the world.

Embarrassingly, I even got in touch with one but thank God they all wanted children within the M25 only so I was left with my illusions intact...

I feel like this.about 50% of the time. The rest of the time I am fantasising about who I can Palm thrm off on until 3 year old stops tantrums and baby starts sleeping...