Hormone attack or am I turning into a drip?

[Moorhen]

DS is 16 weeks old, and the last few days I've been tearing up at EVERYTHING, bad and good. A selection:
*How lovely he is
*How much my DH loves him and how sad it is that he barely sees him during the week
*What will I do when I go back to work
*Seeing a neonatal ambulance speed past us on the motorway and wondering whose child is in it
*ANYTHING to do with children on TV
and the most stupid of all, yesterday:
*What will I do if my lovely precious little boy goes off to school and tries to make friends and gets left out - I can't stand the thought of it...

I give you my word I'm not normally like this. What's happening to me? Is it normal? Please tell me it goes away...

I would say it is totally down to hormones
It will pass

I would say its hormones too - At that age is when the real personality of a toddler starts to come through and you realise just how much you love them

Yip - totally, absolutely, 100% normal. I was exactly the same (and I still am) and my DS is 2.4!

It's the protective instinct that kicks in as soon as your LO enters this world. I never had it or felt that way until my DS was born.

LOL!!!

Since having DCs (now 5 and 7) I am never more than a thought away from welling up about something. Children do that to you.

I must just add that I always have these feelings but I am an overly sensitive persin and have always been like that but if you aren't normally then it will probably be a passing hormobal thing as your ds is so young

Thanks all! Should apologise for using the word 'drip' in the title of the thread, didn't mean to suggest it's wrong to be this way, just that it's a bit weird for me. I am worrier, but not usually particularly tearful.

mishymoo, I think you're right about the protective instinct. Also I have no defences when it comes to DS - I can cope with something happening to me, but not him being unhappy or hurt or... anything, really.

Another peril of parenthood I hadn't thought about...

Moorhen, it won't pass. This is it.

My dd is 5, and I remember that sudden flux of feelings, of compassion beyond the call of duty, when I saw anything to do with children on tv.

I then understood that when my mum used to say 'I can't watch this' and I thought she was being selfish, she really couldnt bear it.

Its so strong that feeling. I well up when i hear Christmas carols in the bloody supermarket!!!

Totally normal!