Do You Get Teary-eyed Looking at Babies?

My baby is 19 years old. I was pretty sentimental when she went to her her prom, high school graduation and when she started college.

Other people's babies??? Doesn't do it for me at all!!!

No. I think the lack of sleep experienced in the first three+ years is still with me. It won't let me get goopy over babies. It's still trying to make up for that lost sleep!

Maybe it was also my many years as a nanny. I love babies-- and love to hand'em back. No nostalgia for me.;)

I get teary sometimes wise cracking and interacting with the babies in my son's infant daycare room. I know all the babies' names and only about half of the ladies' names. LOL...in my defense we have only been at the center about two and half months or at least that's the little white lie I tell myself. :) I love their innocence and J.. Ah, those beautiful beaming smiles small children and babies flash you. Sigh... I was not a baby or kid person until I had my sons.

I get teary eyed whenever one of my friends experiences a J. in life that I have already been blessed to have. I was the 2nd in my group of friends to marry, so I cried at every subsequent wedding. I was the 2nd to have a baby, so I cried at each new baby picture ;-) I love to see happiness, and babies are the epitome of happiness.

Aaaaall the time. EVERY baby. At the grocery store, on my street, even pictures of babies people post on FB. OMG, the commercials with babies in them. I am pathetic.

My babies are 20, 18, and 15. Now I have puppies instead.

~sighs wistfully~

:)

Oh Lord, NO. I don't. I get like, "So glad I'm past that." I feel happy that I'm done, and I have no problem given them right back!

Don't be embarrassed, though. Obviously, it happens to a lot of ladies!

Nope. Not at all. Don't get me wrong, I *cherish* the memories of when they were babies. But I'm SOOOOO glad that's what they are: memories, and NOT my current reality.

I absolutely LOVE the people my kids are growing up to become. They're 15, 12 and 10, and each day I like them more and more (obviously I love them, but I really LIKE them, too).

I have a 6yr old niece who I see quite often. I freakin' love that kid (and she's a good kid), but I'm so very happy I don't have to deal with her each and everyday.

So put me in a room with a baby and I'll spend a good 1/2 hour carrying him/her around and loving on the cute thing. But I will also be very glad the child isn't coming home with me.

Oh please. I tear up thinking about my beautiful 9 month old granddaughter
Growing up and I am not hormonal! Just want to capture and hold on to every little thing that she does. It goes so fast. My husband and I are so blessed that we have the privilege of babysitting her during the week.

Absolutely not. I'm not a baby person, and didn't care much for the toddler years either. My daughter will be nine and I really love her being older. It's great to see her reasoning skills kick in and we can have actual conversations about things. I love that she's turned into this little person with her own personality and ideas.

Aren't hormones fun?

I love teeny babies. And every time I hold one, I reminisce and get weepy and think about what it'd be like to have another.

The last time I got really serious about it, I went and got a kitten. Cured. Phew!

Funny, we used to talk about this every time a mom brought a new baby to the office during work hours. Some got that "ooooh!!" gushy baby feeling. I never did, though my two own kids could bring me tears of J. - just not other people's babies. I'm with Bug, so happy I'm past that stage! The years of sleep deprivation have left a big enough impression. Thanks, I'd like to catch up now, lol.

I do totally understand raging hormones (have had 'em), and the fact that other people DO tear up. Just not me. :)

join the club...and my baby's eleven and a half and almost as tall as I am (doesn't take much)...

It happens to me ALL THE TIME. I'm not convinced that I'm done having babies, though, and I think that's part of it.

Oh gosh yes, this is how I've always been affected. Even when I was a child I sensed this deeply every time. As an adult I would still become very emtional over seeing a wee one, it didn't matter whether I knew the parents or not, but it was overwhelming when it was a friend or family member. Now I'm old and I still get this feeling but it isn't as big, I've learned to let it float over me. Not that this is a bad thing to experience it's just that when you're in the hospital to see the baby or parents or when you're in others company I don't want to break down and look like an idot. When I was young I could hardly control it.

How can we describe such a wonderous event, each little Being is so precious, so helpless, so new, so fresh, so sweet. Each one comes upon their own star, we can feel and see the universe, the heavens reaching out to us in this little one. This is God's way of telling us, yes life should and does continue, life is good.

Our Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, in trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home.'

Yes, I do. Especially now. I would be expecting a baby at the end of June, but I had an early miscarriage in November and it was not to be.

We have a slideshow of our photos on our computer, and I saw a bunch this morning of my youngest (3.5 yrs) as a newborn. I got weepy and started thinking about the baby I lost.

Yes, it still happens to me. And my babies are 27 and 20. I just start remembering the bad things.... dirty diapers, no sleep, crying tantrums in public places, biting, fighting....... LOL.

No, can't say that it has.
I did get a few twinges of "maybe we should reconsider having another" after a few people we know had new babies. Not after every new baby, just a few. I wonder if it had to do with the time of the month when the baby was born and we saw them...
But generally, no. Not at all.

I'm more apt to get teary-eyed at the weddings of my friends' kids, where I am envisioning my own kids in just a few short years (it goes by fast). Son is 14, and is getting so grown up lately. The idea of sending him off to college makes me weepy, and scared a little. But not babies.

I am like this all the time, sometimes more than others, depending on my day. My husband and I have been trying to adopt for four years and had a baby for 2.5 mos. in 2009. I'm sure that's why... I want soooooo bad to be a mom. You are so fortunate to be a mom. Best wishes.

Are you kidding me? My baby is about to graduate college. When I drive by the school and see a cute little boy happily talking to his mother tears spring automatically in my eyes! We are mourning a time of our lives that is gone.
Watching the kiddos grow up is bittersweet.

Yes-it does-and I dream about babies all the time!

Nope. I wasn't a big fan of the helpless infant stage. I enjoy her much more now that she is an adult.

That's a sweet reaction! Don't feel embarrassed!

I don't get teary eyed, I just wanna pinch their chubby little cheeks and legs. haha. I miss loving on those ham hocks as we used to call them. Now my kids are tall and skinny with no chubbiness to squeeze. :)

You'll always be emotional remembering your babies. That time goes by way too fast. You're normal. :)

Have a great day!

uuummm, okay, I'm just going to say it: are you PMSing?

just slap me silly!

my emotions range depending on my hormones. I cried today over the pics of a wedding proposal. It was my niece's best friend....& a sweeter than sweet setting. :)

as for babies, when I was trying so hard to conceive....yes.
when I had kids, NO!
now that I'm old enough to be a gma & my older son is 25....still NO. I'm not ready, nor is he!

I am EXACTLY the same way. I cry at the drop of a hat since I had my first son, who is almost 4 as well.

nope. But i still have one more coming. Maybe when my last baby is no longer a baby that will happen.