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Fairy Non Bio is sponsoring the Mumsnet Talk App and is interested to know how being a parent has brought out your softer side. Maybe you used to consider yourself a bit of a hard cookie but since having a child, all that has changed. Perhaps you never used to cry at films (or even adverts) or go a bit gaga over puppies, or worry about the smaller things in life? However, since becoming a parent you’ve found yourself sobbing over EastEnders or reacting to a baby's cry at 100 paces.

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Apparently it turns out I like to sit and watch peppa pig together!

I had no patience until I had children which in turn bought out my sensitive side. Don't get me wrong I wasn't a cruel person or anything but other children's minor illness, cough colds and scratches did not bother me in the slightest.
I am now running for the tissue box as soon as they well up to start crying, I get the full first aid kit out for the little one the other day when she got a scratch! My kids I love them!!

Ive alway been quite tough. Since having kids I cry at everything. Adverts with kids, animals, cute cartoons etc!
I also struggle to watch the news.
I'm an emotional wreck now lol

Every single creaky floorboard in my house! I leap over them now just to avoid my baby waking up!

I'm a sucker for sad films now. I never used to be bothered by things in films but there's been a few times I've shed a tear or 2 when watching films, often kids ones too! Haha

Can't watch horror movies or read books on horrible stories

I must admit that growing up in a house full of boys, I became a master at hiding my emotions. After my first child I was still very cool and collected and found my OH more emotional than me. Now, after 4 kids, there's never a dry eye in our place! My DS giving me baby cuddles and cute smiles every day totally cracks me up! I'm welling up just thinking about it............

My son has special needs and it has made me a lot more aware and sensitive of children who struggle with conditions.

Like pp I cry at everything now. I used to love Call the Midwife but can't bear it now!

I'm really sensitive now, I even cry just watching the news :)

Seeing images of Syrian kids in bombed out cities or refugee kids surviving through the ordeal of losing their homes, really hits home harder now.

Like a lot of people who have commented, I became terribly upset by stories about bad things happening to kids .... I have obviously always found it upsetting but when you think that could be your child in that situation then it has more resonance.

It's made me more sensitive to bad situations wont likely happen and trying to prevent them. It's also made me more sensitive to sad stories about children

I worry about the future and what sort of world my boys will be living in. I also think a a lot about the day they won't want cuddles anymore and this makes me really sad!!

All that handwashing after changing nappies, really turns your skin sensitive!

I cry at the drop of a hat! It started when I first saw the likes of Comic Relief and Children in Need after having my daughter. I was always upset by these telethons but after having my daughter they really hit home. Now I cry at everything from First Dates to any commercial on the TV with a doleful music track!

I just go really fluffy around all children. This has happened after I had my daughter now age 2. It didn't happen after I had my son (8). Not sure why I'm so soppy now but not before.

The first David Attenborough programme I saw after having my eldest began with a mummy polar bear with three babies who had not eaten for months and was desperately trying to hunt baby seals. David told us it was unusual for a polar bear to have three babies and that the littlest was very likely to die if the mummy bear couldn't kill a baby seal soon. Five minutes into the first episode, tears streaming down my face, I forced DH to switch off - and he lives for the big nature programmes like this. Haven't watched any like it since, just can't take it. My eldest is now five.

I get emotional by seeing anyone else being emotional! If it's on tv or real life, it just seems to have an effect on me and I cry! Maybe becoming a mum has made me more empathetic.

get upset when they are upset about things, especially when there is nothing you can do to make it better for them - when not being liked by people/not invited to certain parties etc

Before having my son, I used to absolutely love watching horror films! OH & I would do many a horror double-bill at the cinema late on a Friday or Saturday night. I would love that feeling of fear & uneasiness.
Now however, I can't even watch a Halloween episode of The Simpsons! From the moment my son was born - I just wanted to protect him from everything & I don't want to have the images & ideas from those horror films & books in my head. I have turned into a complete wuss! It drives OH bananas as I'll no longer watch any horror with him!

Before I had my DDs I always thought I was a tough cookie - now I'll cry at anything from cookery shows to Disney films! I have no idea what happened to me!!

Oh god, every film with kids going missing or worse. Any advert where the child sadly looks at the dying parent! Any TV show that involves young, attractive people jetsetting or drinking. All these things reduce me to tears. I have a new-found terror of losing what 3 years ago I didn't even realise I wanted!

I am a lot more mindful to the feelings of children, not just my own, but to other kids too. I get affected when I hear of any child that has been harmed and the images of children refugees and children who are living through wars upsets me deeply. I still cry when I see the picture of the drowned little boy being carried from the shore by the soldier.

I can't watch the charity adverts especially ones with children as it breaks my heart