Tell Fairy Non Bio the ways being a parent has brought out your sensitive side - £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

[PoppyMumsnet]

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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So, to celebrate the Fairy Non Bio sponsorship of the Mumsnet Talk App, they’d like you tell them about what things you're sensitive to now that you never used to be in the past. And what specific things about being a parent have brought out your sensitive side? Download the Mumsnet Talk App and share your story with Fairy Non Bio.

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[BathshebaDarkstone]

I must be the only person who cries at Toy Story 3! "What? You want your mommy back? She never loved you. Ain't no kid ever loved a toy really." I'm welling up just typing it!

[TheDuchessOfKidderminster]

I think I was quite sensitive in the first place but I think before having children I was less sensitive about what other people think of me. I am also now more understanding of other people and their feelings when before I was a lot more impatient and snappy with people. My DP finds upsetting news stories about children and babies to be much more difficult to read/watch now but I've always found them to be really upsetting. His work in the police had meant he's had personal experience of these type of situations, which he's found really difficult.

[BirkenheadGirl13]

I have always been soft! I would (and still do) get so emotional over a film or a song, well just about anything really. But once I had my boys a steeliness came over me and even though I could be an emotional wreck between sleep deprivation and sore boobs I was a stronger woman. Having said that my children well they are young men now can make me cry with joy, pride and relief, so my softness is still there and always will be.

[hermancakedestroyer]

Since having children I cannot watch anything vaguely moving. DIY SOS has had me in tears, long lost relatives has the same effect and anything in the news that affects children also brings a lump to my throat!!
I have also become fearful over things which really didn't bother me before such as heights, travel in general and anything which could danger me and or my children.
It's funny how nature works really.

[ClaudetteWyms]

Since having children I am completely unable to watch anything like CSI or gritty crime dramas, just too gorily realistic and unpleasant. Hate things like the Fall or Luther where you watch women being stalked/terrorised - simply can't watch them despite others raving about them. Can't watch even mild peril if children are involved.

I sometimes find myself welling up at fluff like the X Factor and Strictly instead.

[nemno]

I cannot bear films and programmes where bad things happen to people my own children's ages. This is obviously new because I didn't have children before :D!

[pinkunicornsarefluffy]

Like a lot of other posters, I get emotional over sad films and bad news stories that are about children. Things never used to affect me as badly before I had DC

[foxessocks]

I never thought I'd feel so upset when I tell my dd off and then she gets upset! I have to try really hard to stay cross when I just want to give her a cuddle ...I'm such a softie now!!

[DamageControl]

I can't watch Cars any more without crying. Yep - Cars, the Disney Pixar film with talking cars.

Specifically, it's the scene just at the end, where Lightning McQueen is about to win and Chic Hicks (the baddie car) clips The King, sending him rolling across the grass. His wife, watching, quietly gasps "oh no!", and I go to pieces.

[working9to5WAWTMAL]

I genuinely cannot read any books, newspaper articles or watch any films where a child gets hurt in any way since having my son. Someone recently recommend that I read 'the world according to Garp.' I cried for about two days after reading the car scene. I consider myself quite a strong person (or at the very least, a person who knows the difference between real life and fiction!) but since having my son, I project him into every scenario, real or imagined. It's kind of exhausting.

[SabrinaTheTeenageBitch]

I used to be quite a cold hearted person (product of my own upbringing ironically enough) My eldest was born at 27 weeks and with multiple disabilities. My youngest ten years later. Being a mother to daughters of different ages and vastly differing needs has made me see the world in a completely different way. I don't think it would be cheesy or over the top to say my children saved me. I was on a bad path in life with a bad attitude to match. Now I live my life for two other people who deserve the very best side of me

[Mummageddon]

I wasn't a hugging person until I had children. Now I hug them and my DH all the time and it spills out to other people too, I'm much more likely to give a friend a big hug when greeting them.

[CMOTDibbler]

I'm not a weepy person, or massively emotional. But the times my great big 10 year old snuggles into me at bedtime to tell me his worries tugs at my heart like nothing else

[Rigbyroo]

I've become more emotional since having children. I've always been snuggly but even more so now. It's toughened me up too.

[Lovewhereilive]

I cry at lots of things now especially involving children. I see the world as a million times more dangerous too!

[Lulabellx1]

I'm sensitive to smells actually, things I didn't used to notice before... really bother me. Musty smells etc, I'm always flinging the windows open which I never did before! x

[Blizy]

I cry at anything now! I didn't used to cry at films, tv etc. Now i cry at the drop of a hat. Having my son has opened me up to be very much more empathetic and sympathetic.

[Sammyislost]

Definitely films or TV where a child dies! I always want to cuddle my little ones straight away.

[GruffaloPants]

I cry at just about everything.... Adverts, songs, tv programmes. Stories about children and parents bring separated get to me on a visceral emotional level, whereas before I'd just have though "how sad".

[BabyGanoush]

Goodness, I now cry at anything with children/animals in it.

I can no longer watch any crime/drama where a child is involved.

As for DH, he cried at Harry Potter! So I don't think it's to do with hormones

Being a parent makes you soft....

[DXBMermaid]

I'm the opposite. I used to be a bit of a pushover. Becoming a Mum has woken the Lioness in me!

[AprilLoveJ]

Well I've never been a tough cookie. Everyone knew I'd be the lovey dovey, squishy huggy, coochie woochie kiss monster mummy from the start. I can't stop kissing or hugging her and I'm sure it must get on her nerves sometimes 😂

I'm naturally kind and sweet but strangely I've become harder towards other people now. I don't suffer fools anymore and I love standing up for myself. I'm not overly huggy and sweet with my family anymore, I've toned down a lot. I think I was an overly emotional doormat before. Now most of my sweetness and sensitivity gets poured into dd. I'd say I'm just 'normal' with everyone else now lol.

I can no longer watch a Tv or movie where a child is being hurt or at risk of harm. Or any bad pregnancy/birth storylines. It's just too much now and I can also cry uncontrollably and get awful anxiety if I read some awful news story involving children/babies.

I also have this extreme empathy and understanding for other parents now who are having tough times, for whatever reason, whereas before such things would never really have resonated with me. I feel like I want to help women in general more now too, particularly mothers. It really breaks my heart to read others' suffering on some threads here, more so than it ever did pre-parenthood.

[RockingDuck]

If I see any young person succeed on TV...in ANYTHING from X Factor to Bake Off to the Olympics, I'm in floods.
WHY are you crying asks 8yo ds in disgust
Because their parents must be so PROUD of them

only done that since having kids. Also CANNOT watch horror films now; and was a real horror fan. Just can't. After giving birth it's all too damn real.

[Theimpossiblegirl]

I'm another one that is a lot more emotional since having children. I also get very upset watching the news, hearing about children suffering is awful whether one is a parent or not, but once you have your own children, it effects you so much more.

[mummymummums]

I cry at any film now - even found myself choking up reading the Railway Children book to the children. I can't bear to watch any sad news stories about children.
Also have found I can't stop volunteering myself to help people - despite working, having two children and being carer for two elderly v unwell parents. I try to sit on my hands then hear myself blurt out that I'll help! Every time!