Emotional since becoming a mother?

THings that envolve kids say hearing a news story where a lil one was hit by a car will get me a lil worked up, but then I just get a lil ticked off you know... "Where was the parent?" I don't get too weepy too much. I"m on the other end I"m more ticked off then I ever was in my life and I let my kids and hubby know when I'm not pleased w/ bahavior and or actons.

You didn't say how recently you became a mother. If it was only recently you should find it will pass. Just hormones and your body getting back to normal. I do think that when you become a mother, especially first time round, you see the world a little differently. However some women do suffer from post natal depression so if you feel its affecting your life in an adverse way perhaps you should see your doctor. Hope this helps.

It is quite natural to be sentimental. After all, the enormity of the gift and the responsibility suddenly becomes clear. Suddenly, we feel inadequate in the face of this wonderful helpless human being. On a medical note, progesterone is our natural tranquilizer and antidepressant and the placenta makes gobs and gobs of it. After delivery, there is the sudden drop in progesterone levels as it returns to normal production. This contributes to the postpartum blues.

hey polo..... i can relate to that..... being a mother does a lot of things to us...... we become more sensitive...and emotional.....and even corny!!!! LOLZ...... but is sure great to be a mother!

For me I was a wreck for about a year after my daughter was born! It was really bad the first 9 months. Before my daughter was born I bought a bunch of my favorite songs that had been turned into lullabies, loaded my ipod and even purchased a special set of speakers that attached to her crib to play them for her. Well, we had her in a pack and play next to the bed for the 1st few months. I tried several times to play the lullabies for her, but listening to them just made me bawl! Every sad news story, those horrible St. Jude commercials...everything made me a snotty sniveling mess. My daughter is now 2 1/2 and I'm still more emotional than I was before her, but only over certain things. I think now it is more a matter of having a different perspective. My life has gone from being completely about me and my life, to being completely about her and her life. The things that affect that are what get me emotional, and the one thing that makes me tear up every time is thinking about the next transition....from being a full time hands on Mom, to her being an "adult" and on her own.

It sort of passes. Over this next year you should start to notice you will become less of ball of emotions. The first year your whole body is out of whack. I was never one to cry in movies or watch chick flicks, but now, I've softened a bit, but I'm not crying over every little thing - unless its about child abuse or abduction. Then I'm all freaked out. Like I was at work and saw something about a child who was abducted and abused and killed, and I had to call home to talk to my son. Just to hear his voice, know he was ok, etc. I knew he was, but I still had to hear his voice because it just totally freaked me out and upset me. So, I'm not the hard a** I was before, but not the sap I was right after having him, and my son is going to be 6 on the 22 of Sept. Good luck!!

Yes, I had a severely bad case of post partum blues with my first daughter, I was such an emotional wreck and I had insane cabin fever because I had her during the coldest part of winter, so I couldnt really go anywhere. With my second daughter, it wasn't as bad. But, I still think at times I still have it, because I almost feel like I am pregnant, where I am very emotional, easy to cry over little things, kind of depressed, and more. It's hard!

I am a mother too. Maybe what you meant is you are easily to cry. Yea, me too. Used to i already have, now even more. I have a daughter, and i have to take care of her, i meant 'overseeing', maybe that's what making me swiftly tired, making me easily to get angry. Is that what you felt too?

yeah, I used to be very together- and now I wear my emotions on my sleeve. I cry at commercials get visably upset when I hear news stories about children being hurt... It's just all the love in your mommy heart that makes you volitale and passionate!