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[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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[Maiyakat]

I never used to cry at TV. Recently I watched one of the Children's Hospital programmes, which usually have happy endings, but this time it wasn't... Sat with tears running down my face.

[voyager50]

Like many of the others I now cry at so many things - tv, films, books and even things my friends and family tell me about other people and things that have happened. It can be anything from sick children to lonely old men or injured animals.

[Snog]

I work in a hospital and since being a parent I cannot stand to see children being wheeled down to theatre - I avoid that corridor

[Catsgowoof]

pregnancy pretty much made me cry ar everythong

[imnotreally]

Madeline McCann disappeared when my pfb was a few months old. It affected me tremendously. I sobbed and got quite depressed.

[IonaAilidh11]

i am more emotional now

[TheSunnySide]

As a child I had trouble fitting in in school so when my son comes home from school (Year one) telling me about the children in the class who are 'always naughty' or 'they don't like anyone' I find myself thinking about it from those children's perspective and trying to teach my son to recognise when another child might be suffering; when it might be more than just being naughty.

Yesterday, as we talked on the way from school about a boy who my son said 'doesn't like anyone else and doesn't even like himself' I remembered exactly how that felt when I was a kid. We talked about how easy it is to be labeled a certain way and then be stuck with it all through school.

I feel incredibly sensitive about how other kids might be feeling and how I would have wanted to be treated. Having a child starting school has realy helped me to look at the way I turned out and why.

[CheeseAtFourpence]

Anything in the news about children affects me much more than it did before being a parent. And I sob at every birth when watching One Born Every Minute/

[Sierra259]

Anything (real life or fictional) where children suffer or are unwell etc just really upsets me on a more visceral level now. I always found it sad, obviously. But now it's like a punch in the guts that just makes me want to cuddle my DC.

[TheMasterBaker]

I can't watch the news or read any stories involving children harmed or sick, I've read stories of big cases in the past when my eldest was young and I couldn't sleep, couldn't relax or stop thinking about it. I used to be pretty 'tough', not much bothered me. Since having the DC's, I've become a soppy mess!

[Cambam2010]

I think I lack sensitivity! I have so little time since becoming a mum that I have no time for myself so I just keep on plodding on through sickness and pain and then I forget that others do not have my strengths and may need a little sympathy or empathy when they are unwell.

What does reduce me to tears though is the thought of children suffering. The videos and news footage from Syria is awful and makes me so grateful for what I have.

[FantasticMrsW]

I never used to cry at anything after my first was born we saw a post van that was on fire. I started crying at the poor letters that wouldn't make it to their destination 😂.

(Turns out I was pregnant again at the time so I'm hoping that had some influence in my emotional state!)

[Laurajp35]

I have become a lot more sensitive to children's needs, particularly my own daughter's. I find it very difficult to hear about children in distress

[RedRoseMummy]

I was never especially sensitive before I had children but I feel much more so now. I cry much more easily and tend to try to avoid stories which might trigger tears. I used to be a real news junkie so this is a real departure for me.

Another thing I'm incredibly sensitive about is a feeling that I'm lucky to have three wonderful children and, thus far, we've had a pretty easy time of it

[Fairybells]

I can't read or watch news anymore as reading about any cruelty towards kids upsets me for days afterwards. Same thing watching films etc, if any film might have anything like that in it I have to pause the film, then google the film and read the plot to make sure nothing bad happens to the kids. For this reason I had to stop watching Game of Thrones which was one of my favourite programmes before!

[ButterflyOfFreedom]

Gosh I'm definitely more sensitive / soft / weepy / emotional since having children!
Good news stories make me cry as well as the horrific things you hear on the news. Especially anything involving children.
I get upset if my DC are upset.
I cry at programmes & films when before I was called 'ice queen' for notcrying at Titanic!
Now I'm just an emotional wreck!!!!

[Member194022]

Watching sad story news on TV affects me a lot more now that I'm a parent. Feel very teary and emotional very easily

[TheSpottedZebra]

Any young children 'trying hard together' eg school assembly, sports teams, orchestras etc, make me go a bit bleary eyed. And children being very kind at their own behest makes me a bit soppy too.

[ZoSanDesu]

Get physically scared about the world when I watch crime watch. Had to defer jury duty because I know I am in no emotional state to be able to stop myself crying for the victim (plus am exclusively breast feeding so that was the official excuse!)

[HopefulHamster]

I hate reading newspapers now, especially on public transport. If there's any sad stories about children similar to my own kids' ages, I just end up in tears.

[Ashhead24]

Anything sad about a child on TV tears me up now. Wouldn't have even blinked beforehand.

[redbook]

I agree with other posters that stories of children suffering really bother me now.

I'm also more aware of my personal safety and health. My DS needs to have his mother as he grows up.

[OhHolyFuck]

Loads of these - there was a terrible news story when my first DS was little involving a baby of the same age, I cried buckets reading the article and then made a huge more than we could afford at the time! donation to a children's charity

Nativitys, I well up, especially the singing, this'll be the first year both DSs will be in it and I know I'll be a mess

Sibling stuff - I try so hard on helping my two have a loving close relationship so anything with brothers, especially the brownlee brothers recently has me sobbing buckets

[ohlittlepea]

Having a child had made me more sensitive in almost every situation! I cry at adverts on the TV, I cry when I'm enjoying a great experience and I feel lucky to share it with my child ..even with grown up men or women I tey to be kindef because think about them being somebody's son or daughter...having a child definitely softens you up!

[mumsnit]

I wouldn't say I'm softer as I've always been a big softy anyway! But when it comes to my own kids I can be far too soft. I have to fight with myself not to give in to them on a regular basis!!