Big softy since becoming a mum

[Lin]

Do you all find that since you've become parents that whenever you watch something sad regarding babies and children, you end up a blubbering mess?
I used to watch things and think how awful or how can someone do that? etc....
Now, I find I watch something and I can feel my heart break and tears well up in my eyes!

For instance, I was watching Greys Anatomy the other night and a heavily preg women had slipped in the shower and broken her arm. An ultrasound discovered that her baby had died. There was a scene where she had to give birth to him, and the tears started rolling down my face like you wouldn't believe! I felt so horrible for the poor women!

And again, like this morning on the news, that poor 10mnth old baby whose pram fell into the river in Adelaide with him in it! :eek: He's in a critical condition at the moment!

I just can't bare hearing things like that - I can't handle it at all when I hear stories about babies/children being abused, shaken, thrown etc!

I've become a real wuss these days! :rolleyes:

[mum33]

lol...yes..i have become a bit of a softie since becoming a mum....:D

[Beany]

Cannot watch Saving Babies.

Can't do it.

Might have done before the baby but now, even watching the beginning bit sends me running for the remote through a fog of tears.

[SassyMummy]

Yep! I feel like such a loser when I do it... it's so embarrassingly stupid.

I cried over that Grey's lady too... and I cry whenever I watch just about anything that concerns kids in danger (usually smaller children and babies, rather than older children). I cried at that ad for that Organ Donor show that's on tonight.... they had an extended ad with a 3 year old little girl, and she has to get a liver transplant (I think). I bawled my eyes out... she looked a little like DD, but even if she didn't, she just looked so calm and brave and innocent and it was heartbreaking to think she needed surgery.

[whatwasithinking]

Yep - me too.

[chameleon]

Yep, I used to cry a lot before DD... now I cry at anything!
I do watch Saving Babies, only because DD was a premmie, and it's amazing what little fighters they are, but I don't think I stop crying through the whole show!

[mumslilspunks]

Definately. I was at the shopping centre on the weekend a little girl had locked herself in mums car ( not sure how) but i was trying to help and she ended up getting her mums keys from her handbag and pushing the button on the keys and she unlocked the car! I think she was around 15mnths old. When mum got her out of the car she started to cry and so did i :crying:
Im the same with saving babies, anyshow really.:D

[natasha]

Oh yeah!!! I never used to cry before I had DD. These days I cry at anything!!! I watched the Lion King today with DD and cried when simba's dad died.:o :crying: I just sat there bawling my eyes out with DD going 'wat up mummy, wat up?':o

[happydays]

Yep me too.

Saving Babies brought me to tears each episode, but I still watched it as you feel this emotional connection with other mothers.

[natasha]

Iv never been able to watch saving babies. I just cant.

[MuM2IsabeL]

I am the exact same! I watched almost every episode of saving babies and i was a blubbering mess at the end with out fail.

I also think it has turned my DD's dad one too! he cant watch anything thats got to do with babies or young children.

Obviously, your not the only one here :thumbsup:

xx

[rachisle]

Yep - before I became a mum I would see those situations as sad... now it's heartbreaking. I've been banned by DP from buying those real life stories mag's as all the baby stories leave me a mess.

My brother in law's cousin had a baby 5 months ago and the precious little thing had a brain hemorrhage at 2 weeks old and died, just out of the blue right there in her arms. My sister was telling me yesterday about it and I was crying so much it felt like my heart was breaking.

I guess it affects me more at the moment as my bub is only 4 weeks old and this is all new to me :)

Oh and I cried at the organ donor ad for that show too!

[benji's_mum]

It doesnt take much to make me bawl. My DS crawled for the first time a few days ago and I got so worked up and cried.

PS...even the St George ad with the babies makes me cry :o

[Shellfish]

Oh yes, I cry at the drop of a hat these days. I started crying yesterday when I saw on the news that one of the lecturers who died in the Virginia tech massacre survived the holocaust and then sacrificed his own life for the sake of his students..
I think you see the world very differently once you become a parent