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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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i've become more patient!

I always thought I was such a tough nut, almost to the point of being quite cold.

I have a 3 yo DS now who is my absolute world and I'm 22 weeks pregnant.

I was having a sort out of DSs old baby clothes yesterday to see what we could reuse for DC2 and I was sat in floods of tears not wanting to imagine anyone else wearing some of DSs clothes.

Most of them have been bagged up for charity, a couple kept aside for memories and generic baby gros etc will be kept for baby. Baby2 will not be getting a load of hand-me-downs as a result of my emotions, but instead almost a whole new wardrobe!

I seem to cry at everything!!! If anyone such as one of their teachers tells me something they have done which is really great, i start welling up because i feel immense pride! I am far more affected by stories involving children that you watch or hear on TV and I feel like i am definitely more open with my own feelings then i was prior to having children.

Oh man, seriously I used to be a tough little thing with a distinctly cynical edge but now I find myself either smiling and going gooey, or else dissolving into tears at anything baby and/or small-child related.

I used to watch the news everyday- but now I can't because it's too sad and I get in an emotional flap about what sort of world my little boy will be growing up in!

Is this it for life now do you reckon, or will the affects wear off after, say, 20 years or so?!

I hate reading or hearing about any stories of bullying and cruelty... :(

I have always had a sensitive side, so having my DCs has not changed this part of me. But I was more emotional during my pregnancies and just after the births with the change in hormones.

I am very sensitive about stories or programs that contain child cruelty/abuse can't watch or read them it makes me cry can't bear the thought of that happening to a child especially when mine are so happy

I'm so much more emotional especially when it comes to children. In general though I think I'm more sympathetic to other parents too!!

iv become a nervous wreck if im honest. i see this maybe 10x worse than the next person. i will be looking at things from every angle possible. eeek.
i cry at anything to do with m children.... if someone was mean to them at school i just want to cry into my pillow on behalf of my kids. waahhhhh

I'm not sure I am more sensitive. I think I have had to toughen up to help my kids be strong and independent. If I broke down in tears because they hurt themselves or feel rotten, it's not going to help them is it?

I've always been quite sensitive, but my husband was rubbish the only times I've ever seen him upset was when we had to have our dog put down and when we watched Marley and Me and again the dog was put down! Since we have had two kids he has softened a bit, when our eldest said she loved him and would miss him if he went away (we were talking about death) he had a little tear in his eye, soppy sod!

Oh gosh, I well up at all sorts now, from Bella swapping her big teddy to get Dogger back, to the adverts on TV (not even the good ones, ones my cynical self actively despises!). If I read a sad thread on here (especially about bereavement) I'm depressed for hours.

I never felt maternal until I fell pregnant so I'm altogether more soft in general now around dcs! I support children's charities more now as I can't bear to think of children who aren't loved and cared for the way children deserve to be. I struggle to hear stories in used to hear through work with the same professional distance. I think I'm less caustic and care more.

It has made me more emotional

I get scared about horror films and the bad stuff that goes on around the world.

learn to stop and listen and enjoy story time

I'm another one who has turned into an emotional person since having children. I cry at anything to do with children and can't read about any abuse or neglect as it is too upsetting.

I've just become much more light hearted about the things that used to wind me up before.

Seeing my daughters play together nicely always brings a tear to my eye!

I used to watch all of the childrens hospital programmes and whilst I found them at points sad, it was nothing compared to how I feel watching them today. Can't get through an episode without bawling my eyes out because when you have children of your own, you can empathise much better.

I feel more for people with worries. I listen more intently to people's stories. They are important

The same as many above i dont watch the news anymore.

Also, the other day I shouted at DS1 for doing something he shouldnt be doing, he looked at me and said Mummy, dont shout at me please. All the while his bottom lip was going and then we both burst into tears. Normally I am fine with telling off if necessary but that really got to me and even has me emotional thinking back on it. His face bless him, he looked really sad and now I feel like the worlds worst parent.

I get very emotional at kind things & just seeing & hearing of the good deeds in the world. I'm still normally quite hard faced :)

I used to hate cuddles and hugs but can't resist giving my kids a squeeze!

i am really sensitive to body language because young children cant articulate their feelings so i sense things from how they express using their body.