ever since giving birth, i find that i cry at EVERYTHING!!

[alannabanana]

wasn't sure what topic this came under so thought i'd list it here!
does anyone else have this problem? well its not a problem really, just a weird bodily response that i can't quite fathom or control! every time i see someone giving birth on tv, or even talking about giving birth, i cry. every time theres something sad involving kids on tv or elsewhere, i cry. we just watched wall-e, and i started crying at the opening credits because i knew i would be crying at some point in the movie! how mental is that! i used to be such a logical, together person - now i seem to be a hormonal mess at the slightest thing!

anyone else gone from sturdy to mushy following their little ones arrival?!

Was exactly the same after dd born - couldn't watch CSI or anything like that for a year or so! It will pass, I think you need to be hugely empathetic to look after a baby and so the hormones seemed to make me relate to anyone or anything and feel its pain! Not like it much with ds if that helps so maybe your body adjusts to the hormones second time round!

heres hoping - dont think my tear ducts could take another babys worth of empathy crying!

Oh yes, and after every subsequent DC as well. Then it settles down for a while until you get peri-menopausal at which point you start crying at everything all over again.

Yesterday I welled up a bit during the film Annie. The "It's a Hard Knock Life" bit .

Oh my dd's nearly one and I feel and when I think of how much crying I've done! Poor dp! It must be the hormones, like annabel1 said. In fact, I love what annabel1 has said about empathy - from now on I'm going to feel proud for being a caring mum instead of a soppy git for all that crying!

Just wait til you are on your 2nd. Trying to hide your irrational tears from the dc who is old enough to ask "is everything ok mummy - shall I kiss it better?" Makes me even worse ..........

I found any talk or mention of giving birth/watching birth on TV made me blub really badly for a long time, I can still get a little tearful now.
For me, I think it was because giving birth had been such an enormous thing to go through, physically, psychologically and emotionally, and it took a long time to get over it!!
I don't mean that I had a bad experience of birth, but it was physically exhausting, and emotionally exhausting, and a momentuous event, and I think I didn't then have time to process what I had been through because obviously you're then so busy with the baby.

Yep,

And I still well up intears over news articles involving kids or parents - most embarrassing on the tube!

And my youngest is 6!

Completely normal. Hope so anyway, because I was terrible for ages.

I'm not an animal lover, but blubbed over fluffy bunnies after dd1 was born.

We once went for a country walk with baby dd1 and I cried buckets at the sight of a calf being born in a field. DH likes to remind me that I refused to leave until I was sure the calf was standing up ok.

Oh yes, and I couldn't read about sad/bad things happening to children in newspapers/books, it was hard to watch the news etc etc.

I recently finished a book about the Armenian massacre which was absolutely gruelling in terms of sad (and very bad) things happening so I'm getting less brittle...ds is 2.5!

I was hard as nails I was (or possibly just not very empathetic).

Me too I cry loads more than I ever did and stories about abused children etc really really affect me. I always thought things like kids dying and being abducted etc were awful but I never really appreciated how devestating that would be for someone till Ihad kids myself.

I think you definately get real when you've had kids. I actually stopped buying the paper for about a year after my DD was born, she's 3 now, because I cried so many times.