How you know you're very definitely a mum and no longer a fabulously cool thrusting happening young thing...

[angelene]

Singing along to the Wombats single and replacing 'Let's dance to Joy Division...' with 'Call the Koala Brothers...'

Any others?

when your handbag previously busting with clinique/mac now has magic cream,wipes,nappies

when drool on shoulder is a badge of honour

you chose where to eat out on basis of can i get the pram in.rather than food preference

constantly feel tired

an exciting night is an early bed

When you start sounding like your mother!

"oooh you'll get cold with no coat on"

"look at the price of that??!"

That's 3 bob in old money......(showing my age now)

When you realise the mother of your youngest employee is younger than you...... groan

Oh God, so many of these apply.

I made real effort to dress nicely/trendily today only to be told by DH that I looked like I was trying too hard . He didn't actually say "mutton dressed as lamb" but I know that's what he thought .

When you used to skip back from lunch carrying a few bags with choice items from Monsoon or similar...now you stagger back in with Tesco Metro bags full of cereal and stuff for packed lunches

When your childless friends bemoan how painful their latest tattoo/piercing/drunken tumble/carpet burn is, and you top them with your birth story (with the number of stitches, hours of pushing and amount of people who heard you roaring from the hospital carpark increasing with each telling)

when you say frequently "wait a minute, I've only got one pair of hands" a la your Mother used to....

lol turniphead, and I bet you didn't even care!

when you are happy to snaffle down someone elses food remnants even if they have been spat out.

yes and also (at mealtimes) "there are people starving you know"

These are absolutely fantastic

For me, it has been ever since DS has been born even when he isnt with me at a wedding or something I wind up hunting out the children there and hanging out with them instead.
Also pointed out diggers and trucks to adults, and sung Hi 5 theme tune all morning

When your usual long haul city break for shopping and bars has suddenly become a week self catering in Menorca

When you stop crawling out of bed 10 mins before the alarm goes off to comb your hair, wash your face and brush your teeth so you DP/DH still thinks you're some sort of godess in the morning

Actually I never did that I'm too darn lazy, perhaps I never was a young trendy happening young thing...sob...

when given the chance to go out and paint the town red, you'd rather sit in with a glass of rose and a book.

..when you don't envy your mates single lives anymore.

One that stands out for me is when i can quite easily and with no shame whip my boobs out at any given place and time to feed dd2 without even thinking about it.

When you've just picked baby poo out of the bath.

Oh
My
Goodness!

When your evening meals conists of very softly steamed carrot sticks, rice cakes smeared with various nutritious toppings and a few (slightly chewed) bits of toast....because you couldn't bear it going to waste.

When you have actually caught a poo in your hand because you'd rather get your hand dirty than have to wash another towel and then run to show DH just how disgusting it is! (Even my mum said she'd never done this)... I'm dying of shame.....

When you discuss your piles/stitches/mastitis/weeing incident with women you have never met before at the baby clinic.

When the cute guy who lives across the road calls you m'dear

""When there are three of you sat at the table and one of you is having a poo...
(or is that just my ds?)"""

That is so us!! ds looks over "Isobels pooing" none of bat an eyelid, and just keep on eating! LOL

When you phone in sick to work pretending it's you that's actually sick, not your child

When your glove compartment contains boxes of raisins and calpol sachets instead of gloves

When you know your child's exact height in centimetres, but have no idea of your bra size this week

When your DS goes under a restaurant table to poo (IN A NAPPY)and after 5 minutes your sister-in-law delicately excuses herself - and you just carry on eating..(and nick a few of DS's chips while you're at it)

When your main consideration when looking for an outfit to wear to your brother's wedding is 'how easily could I get my norks in and out of that?'

When you're packing to go on holiday and realise that what with the nappies and the bathseat and the baby sun shelter etc. etc. you're going to have to narrow it down to just one pair of shoes for yourself - and you can do it

Loving this thread! DH upset as I am pretending do do online banking so that he has to do washing up while I post!

when the cool and happening dude/dudette handing out leaflets advertising the new funky nightclub pretends he/she can't see you

agree with all of the above and...feel guilty about buying anything for myself but will buy for children at the drop of a hat.Yes have rucksack not a handbag.Wear factor 40 suncream and am mostly therefore white as a sheet but hands and arms are burnt from pushing a pushchair. Discuss washing machines,dishwashers and stains with anyone willing.Wet myself sometimes if cant get key in door soon enough! Aargh

Hello, this thread has made me laugh so much that I'm forced to delurk.

When you quite happily put the rubbish out still wearing pyjamas, and glare at neighbours who stare and think you're a slut. Put jumper over same pyjamas and take kids to school.

Weeing when sneezing's a shocker, though. Never thought that would happen.

When you think you are still happening enough to go to a gig, actually manage to get sitter and go to the gig and get a bit over-excited due to not going out for like a year or something, bounce up and down a bit too much, pee your pants in the crowd and then have to empty a bottle of water over yourself pretending you were 'just soooo hot and sweaty'...that happened to a friend of mine once...